"I Must Go" (she said) "Because My Pizza's Cold" selected works, 1957-1999 [inscribed & signed]

Torregian, Sotêre

ISBN 10: 0970395221 / ISBN 13: 9780970395221

Published by Skanky Possum, Austin, 2002

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[xiii] 102p., author's prelude, personal inscription signed by the poet dated 2003, very good first edition trade paperback original in green pictorial wraps. The self-identified Surrealist author is the New Jersey-born son of an Afro-Cuban boxer. He traces his ancestry to the Aghlabid Dynasty of Moorish rulers of Sicily, Ethiopia and the Levant. Winner of the 1968 Frank O'Hara Award for poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "I Must Go" (she said) "Because My Pizza's Cold" selected works, 1957-1999 [inscribed & signed]
• Publisher: Skanky Possum, Austin
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970395221
• ISBN 13: 9780970395221
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • San Francisco
  • Poetry
  • Africa
  • Hispanic American

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Synopsis

Poetry. Affiliated with French Surrealist poets and associated with the New York School of poets and painters, Sotere Torregian has published eight books of poetry and contributed to many small press magazines since the 1960s, including the Paris Review, Art and Literature (Isere, France) and "C," a magazine of the arts. Assistant to Dr. St Clair Drake, he helped establish the Afro-American Studies Program at Stanford University in 1969, where he also taught as Writer In Residence and Scholar. "No poet ever won the Irish Sweepstakes / Because a poet's fate is to weep at the stake" (from "For Groucho Marx").