The Form of Our Uncertainty: A Tribute to Gil OttKristen Gallagher, edISBN 0-925904-31-7; paperback; $15 |
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Description: These poems, some published in fugitive and now unavailable volumes, by one of the most stringent, impeccable, and generously human poets of our time, are now available as a complete collection, and we see that Ott's compelling vision changes the landscape of the book and of American poetry. This book also features interviews and responses by: Ammiel Alcalay, Charles Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Anonymous, Julia Blumenreich, Craig Czury, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Fischer, Kristen Gallagher, Eli Goldblatt, Karen Kelley, Kevin Killian, Hank Lazer, Andrew Levy, Chris McCreary, Toby Olson, Bob Perelman, Leslie Scalapino, Kerry Sherin, Ron Silliman, Heather Starr, Chris Stroffolino, and Mark Wallace. from the introduction: - Kristen Gallagher, from the introduction |
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Reviews: "I find Gil's ability to move across aesthetic and political lines in a local, unpatronizing, non-ideological and generous way, still all too rare. At the same time, he has managed to remain fiercely independent and completely uncompromising - it is out of such fabric that the best of our culture, a culture that we can claim to be part of, is woven. As such phenomena become recognized more generally Gil's past and present efforts will find their rightful place in American literary and intellectual history." - Ammiel Alcalay |
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A widely published essayist and poet, Gil Ott founded and directed Singing Horse Press. The journal Paper Air, which the Press published from 1976 through 1990, was the recipient of an Editors' Award from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses in 1985. Gil's own writing won several awards, including fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts (California), and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He published several books of poetry, including
The Yellow Floor (Sun & Moon, 1985), within range (Burning
Deck, 1987), Public Domain (Potes & Poets, 1989) and The Whole
Note. Essays focusing on the role of the arts in social change
have appeared in American Poetry Review, High Performance, American
News Service, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Cultural
Democracy, and others. He lived in Philadelphia with his wife,
poet and educator Julia Blumenreich and their daughter Willa.
Gil Ott died in 2004. |
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