Rave

By Alan Davies

POETRY

62 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)

Publication Date: September 1994

ISBN 9780937804551

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Sep 1994)

Price:	$20.00

Overview
Author Biography

Overview

Rave collects three erotic works of poetry and fiction by Alan Davies: Split Thighs is the long and legendary poem published in 1975 in a limited xerox edition that circulated underground. Written mostly in a jazz club in Boston's Combat Zone, its fervid short lines force jazz back into the voice. Vitalsis a short novel, porn reduced to its essentials. Isherwood Novel, a short story with a stylistic nod to the author with whom the title flirts, breathes life into the harbor of any city.

Author Biography

Poet and essayist Alan Davies was born in Alberta, Canada, and earned his BA from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts. In 1977, Davies was an assistant to Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Frequently associated with Language writing and writers, Davies’s poems and essay on poetics were published in the seminal anthology In the American Tree. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including A AN AV ES, Candor, and Pain, among others. In the Fall of 2011, Davies was a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor. He lives in New York City.

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