Shake

Author: Joshua Beckman

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Beckman will tour extensively in 2006, reading in at least 50 cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Athens, GA, Boston, Toronto, and New York. Several radio appearances planned. Hometown: Seattle, WA (Beckman is a newcomer to the Seattle poetry scene) and also New York, NY (where he is a well-known fixture).

Recognized as one of his generation's most important voices: fervent, generous, intimate, new.

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Recognized as one of his generation's most important voices: fervent, generous, intimate, new.

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Beckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Compulsively readable, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Whitman, and Ted Berrigan, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing, humorous, necessary vision. Beckman is, as Publishers Weekly notes, "the real thing."

Joshua Beckman is the author of numerous poetry collections, translations, and collaborative works. His awards include a NYFA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

About the Author

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of nine books, including The Inside of an Apple (Wave Books, 2013), Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Toma alamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.