George Quasha is the co-founder of Barrytown/Station Hill Press. He is a poet and artist who works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. His books of poetry include Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands, and [with Chie Hasegawa] Ainu Dreams. He is also the co-editor of America a Prophecy [with Jerome Rothenberg], Open Poetry [with Ronald Gross], An Active Anthology [with Susan Quasha], and The Station Hill Blanchot Reader [with Charles Stein]. His most recent book is Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (1975), and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in video art (2006).
For more on Quasha, visit his site.
Books by George Quasha:
Ainu Dreams
In Ainu Dreams, poet George Quasha and buun, a Japanese artist living in America, collaborate in poetically manifesting the artist’s richly articulated dream-life. These eighty-odd poems embody an ever-opening cosmos of curious image, surprising narrative, and enigmatic “teaching”...
America a Prophecy
Celebrated, controversial, influential, this highly unconventional and ground-breaking anthology of American poetry was widely read and taught throughout the 70s and early 80s. Treating the visionary and the experimental as essential American values, America a Prophecy maps...
Gary Hill: HanD HearD/Liminal Objects
This essay, discussing a two-part installation at Galerie des Archives in Paris by the internationally celebrated artist, Gary Hill, explores the enigmatic nature of the work of art as an object and of objects in general, as such issues pertain to Hill's work and these installations in particular.
Giving the Lily Back Her Hands
This text is a psychotypographic romance caught listening to the voices inside the voice from which it issues. It mates willingly with its Reader, releases quickness & lightness in the marriage of syntax, then returns to...
Narrative Unbound
Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning Blake's The Four Zoas is the first full-scale interpretation of the verbal text of Blake’s most complex long poetic prophecy, “The Four Zoas"...
Tall Ships
You enter a long, dark corridor. Indistinct luminous shapes seem to move in place on the walls. Then a human figure rises, walks towards you, stands and gazes at you, becomes almost intimate with you before turning back whence it came...
