Ugly Duckling Presse, paperback
Publication Date: May 1, 2024
Publisher Marketing: UPSTAGE—a words visuals combine, juxtaposing Bruce Andrews's disjunctive mosaics of language collaged out of signage from Asbury Park, NJ & Sally Silvers's photographs capturing the town's distinctive looks & textures & pandemic-era atmosphere.Poet, performance writer, poetics theorist, sound designer, Bruce Andrews moved to New York City in 1975, teaching Political Science at Fordham in the Bronx (specialties: U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, covert activity, cultural studies & the JFK assassination) for the next 37 years—(for 5 minutes of entertainment, google his stand-off with Bill O'Reilly as "Outrage of the Week"). Closely associated with the post-1970s experimental literary movement, so-called Language Poetry, he coedited the poetics journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E with Charles Bernstein. He has published 30 books including Film Noir, Wobbling, R B, Love Songs, Give Em Enough Rope, Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened, I Don't Have any Paper so Shut up, or Social Romanticism, Tizzy Boost, EX WHY ZEE, Lip Service, Designated Heartbeat, Swoon Noir, You Can't Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!, A Change Is Gonna Come, and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters. His essays on literary theory & poetics are collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis. Long involved in multi-media collaborations—including the performance project BARKING (started with Sally Silvers & Tom Cora), staging large-cast theater spectacles—for decades he has been Sally Silvers & Dancers' main music/text collaborator — composer, sound designer, & improvising live mixer.Sally Silvers is an award-winning choreographer who also has published articles, essays, and poems in magazines, chapbooks, journals and anthologies. She continues to have an ongoing fascination with the poetic as well as the social meanings of movement, offering a no-holds- barred exploration of movement possibilities—often tilted toward the eccentric, awkward, and unexpected. Silvers has performed in South Korea, London, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, Berlin, Sweden, and Denmark, at the Joyce Theater, and many other national and international venues. She was a core member of the faculty at Bennington College Summer Choreography Project for five years and a guest teacher at the European Dance Development Center in Holland for a decade. She is the co-director of two award-winning dance films & is known for several community curatorial projects including TalkTalkWalkWalk (combining dance artists and poets) and Surprise Every Time (a festival of "live choreography"—starting a new dance live in front of the audience on the spot). From 2005 to 2011, she danced in the new and historical works of Yvonne Rainer. She has been collaborating with Bruce Andrews since the early 1980s. Last major piece from late 2022, Pandora's Cake Stain, sublimely mashes up the radical artist Tina Modotti with Alban Berg's Lulu—performances archived online at Roulette.org (& a film version likely soon to come).
