Poetry
ISBN: 0-89924-115-8
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In a poetry at once political, erotic, and powerfully lyrical, Floyce Alexander writes, as he said in an interview in Rolling Stone, of "a generation of orphans, whose history might read roughly: Born in the destruction of Europe; suckled in the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in the graveyards of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Dachau; come to maturity through a quarter-century of Asian wars and increasing corruption, betrayal and revolt in the streets of America; our adolescence forfeited by our fathers, who have destroyed the American wilderness as they have plundered the lives of the people of minority races throughout the world; our legacy an American dream become more than a nightmare, a death to be lived through, with whatever utopia that may be possible our only common integer of survival.
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| Floyce Alexander was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, grew up in the lower Yakima Valley of Washington State, and lives now in northern Minnesota. After earning a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, where he studied with Theodore Roethke and David Wagoner, he worked full-time as an editor and writer with Washington State University during the sixties. He was in Mexico City in 1968, when a campesino-student resistence movement culminated in what Elena Poniatowska called "la noche de Tlatelolco," an event evoked in Bottom Falling Out of the Dream, nominated by Gwendolyn Brooks for the Pulitzer Prize. He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. His other books include Red Deer and Succor. |
