Overview
cclaimed poet and art critic John Yau, author of fourteen books of poetry, teams up with esteemed painter Thomas Nozkowski to create the exquisite Ing Grish, the second in the Saturnalia Books Poet/Artist collaboration seriesYau’s comic and cutting poetry collides with the work of Nozkowski, whom the New Yorker has termed “the Chardin of contemporary abstraction.” The end result is a dazzling and vibrant concoction of visual and written imagery. All the poems in Ing Grish are new, as are Nozkowski’s paintings and illustrations, which he created expressly for this collection.Ing Grish was named “Book of the Year” by Small Press Traffic in San Francisco.Author Biography
JOHN YAU is a well-known poet, critic, and editor. He has published many books of poems, most recently Paradiso Diaspora, and several works of prose, as well as monographs on the work of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and A. R. Penck. His poetry and criticism have been published in dozens of national magazines. The recipient of numerous awards, including being named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by France, Yau teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.