Doubleness

California Poetry Series #6

by Richard Silberg

These rich, mysterious poems travel throughout time and between coasts, grounded in Silberg#39;s present in California and reaching back to his New York City childhood. The poems range from street life to the abstract workings of language itself, from human emotions to the coiling of symbolism and dream. Silberg#39;s spare, pointed, playful language has authority, and even when exploring the past, is clearly quot;in the moment.quot;

75 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2000

About the author

Richard Silberg is a poet, critic, translator, and Associate Editor of Poetry Flash. His poetry book, Deconstruction of the Blues, received the 2006 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was nominated for the Northern California Book Award. He is the author of Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry, as well as essays and several translations, among them The Three Way Tavern, by South Korean poet Ko Un, which won the 2007 Northern California Book Award. This Side of Time, poems by Ko Un co-translated by Clare You and Richard Silberg, is forthcoming from White Pine Press. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Parthenon West Review, ZYZZYVA, Eleven Eleven, and New American Writing, among many other journals. He lives in Berkeley, California.