Susan Gevirtz
TAKEN PLACE

This was the third Reality Street book to be published - a few copies are still available. Susan Gevirtz works in an exploratory open-textured language, attentive to the discriminations of place and culture she draws upon.

“Her poetry moves through passageways of mystery, words weighted with a permanent tension on a background daringly displaced. The poems are dense with the pleasure of objects and the excitement of writing.” (Barbara Guest)

1993 1-874400-02-4, price £6.50, 64pp

Susan Gevirtz lives in San Francisco. Her other books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street); THRALL (Post Apollo); Omatic & After St. John (dpress, 2006); Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck, 2001); Spelt, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim (a+bend press, 1999); Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street Press, 1999); Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996); PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA (Potes and Poets, 1994); Linen minus (Avenue B, 1992); and Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992). Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals.

She was an Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University and now teaches in the MFA in Writing programs at The University of San Francisco; San Francisco State Univesity; the MA in Visual Criticism Program at California College of the Arts and the Hellenic International School of the Arts, Paros, Greece. She was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women's poetry and scholarship, on the editorial advisory board of the journal Avec, and the online journal HOW2. She received the New Langton Arts "Bay Area Award in Litertaure" in the Spring of 2000. She has recently collaborated with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco and sound artist scanner aka Robin Rimbaud. Her play Motion Picture Home was performed as part of a Poet's Theatre event in the winter of 2002. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S..