Bøger af Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, puppeteer, and artist living in N.Y.C. He is author of nineteen books of verse, including Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press, Party Everywhere from Xanadu, and Doppelgängster from MadHat Press. He is a recipient of the Kathy Acker Award for both writing and publishing. His work is included in Best American Poetry for 2023. The former publisher of Cover Magazine, The Underground National, he now publishes Live Mag! This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023.

Live Mag! is an anthology of contemporary poetry and art. It was born at the Bowery Poetry Club when Bob Holman asked Jeff Wright to produce a show. Wright conceived the show as a performance / publication event where publishers, writers, and audience could swap and share. Since then, events hve been held in legendary East Village locations like Bar On A, Sidewalk Cafe, and Mo Pitkins. Continuing a fifteen-year tradition, we carry on a unique partnership with La Mama, E.T.C. We're fortunate to also be part of the Howl! Happening family. Both venues regularly hosts our art, performance, and poetry events there. LiVE MAG! has evolved from its original conception as an onstage event. Now, in addition to multiple shows yearly, it is an annual print anthology of art and poetry as well as appeariong online. Publisher and Editor, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, moved to New York City in 1976 and began Hard Press, publishing poetry postcards and books. He attended workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, John Godfrey, and Jim Brodey. He went on to study with Allen Ginsberg and William Matthews at Brooklyn College where he earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. In 1987, Wright launched Cover Magazine, the Underground National. Its contributors included Molly Jong-Fast, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, John Yau, Robert C. Morgan, David Ulin, Jeanne C. Wilkinson, KK Kozik, and hundreds more. The 64-page monthly journal circulated nationally until 2000.Wright has written 19 books of poetry including Doppelgängster, Blue Lyre, Triple Crown, Employment of the Apes, All in All, and Take Ove rwith a forward by Ginsberg. He appears in numerous anthologies and regularly exhibits and publishes his artwork as well. He has reviewed poetry for the Poetry Project Newsletter, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, and The Brooklyn Rail, and written art criticism for Artnexus, Art & Antiques, White Hot, Chelsea Now, and other publications.Wright has won a Kathy Acker Award and the James Tate Award for 2023.

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! Jeff Wright has become the first human being to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Take that, Equines! He did it the poet's way-he crowned himself with sonnets, and gifted them to the world. Reciprocate his generosity by reading with your whole body. And they're off! Bob Holman Wright's had always a surrealistic edge to his work combined with a clarity that puts him in a league all his own. Hal Sirowitz Jeffrey Cyphers Wright's work is dazzling, befuddling, up and down, and impossible to crown, though he writes in the impossible form of the shattered Corona. His work is full of good humor, but it is also as wildly rumbling as the elephant in mourning. As archaeologists find new skulls, so Wright discovers impossible anamorphosis of poetry. The work seems to come out of Ted Berrigan's sonnet sequences, then suddenly it seems to veer into all possible sequences, a globalism which is the point. Not to like these works is like rejecting New Orleans because it is full of pleasure. Everything seems to be packed in here, even oneself. But the self that you discover is strange and seems like nothing you had guessed as yourself before. We have just stepped on Mars by mechanics; Wright has been there for a long time by human means and refusing to clean up. "Between the mess and the message" and the mesa and the mismatch, there he lies. David Shapiro In Triple Crown, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright goes for the ultimate prize. He joins the ring for competition in one of the sport's deadliest events-the sonnet sequence. "Look for me in the crosswalk smackdown," he writes, aware of the pratfalls. First, the sonnet was declared dead, then alive, then surging. The "innocent euphoria" Wright achieves is not so innocent, but it is euphoric. From rock and roll (a critic's perspective), to mythology as one's contacts; from the allegorical to the historical to the legendary to the underknown, Wright's places are sites of giddy invention, where the risk of collapse is justified by views from previously unscaled heights. In Triple Crown, Wright proves himself worthy of the title: poet-lover. Vincent Katz

In his 19th book of verse, the New Romantic sonnets of Jeffrey Cyphers Wright are accompanied here by his beguiling artworks. His rhino horns and coral reef trombones, his vast vats of sperm-whale sperm and flame-thrower UFOs will grab you by your anathemas and never let go.

A lively annual showcase of contemporary art and poetry. Features work by both established and emerging artists and writers. Art reviews. Book reviews. Full color. 54 pages. $12. Founded in 2007. Edited by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Online version at www.livemag.org

A New York-centric journal of contemporary art and literature.