... came to Boulder in November 1979 to apprentice with the
poet Allen Ginsberg as he assembled his Collected Poems, and
continued to work in various capacities with the poet until
Ginsberg's death in 1997. He has transcribed, edited, annotated,
and indexed over 28,000 pages from Ginsberg's lectures on poetry,
and edited portions of this material into an unpublished manuscript
on William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
He also edited the booklet accompanying Ginsberg's 4-CD retrospective
("Holy Soul Jelly Roll") for Rhino Records, in addition
to many other articles and texts published in various magazines
and books, including an entire issue of "The New Censorship."
He has studied the poetry of Ezra Pound with Olga Rudge and
Mary deRachewilz at Brunnenberg Castle in Dorf Tirol, Italy;
the writings of James Joyce with the author's nephew in Dublin,
Ireland; and the work of poet Philip Whalen at his Zen center
in San Francisco. He served as board member (1998-2000) and
vice-president (2000) of the Arts and Humanities Assembly of
Boulder.
He is the author of Elegies (Elik Press, 2004), S.F.
Notebooks (Elik Press, 2003), ), Jean Cocteau: The First
Half (Laocoon Press, 2003—a DVD which opened Hofstra
University’s Jean Cocteau Film Festival in October 2003),
Dissolve: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakhage
(Cityful Press, 2002; a recommended title by Small Press Distribution
in January 2003, and featured on their catalog’s cover
Spring-Summer 2003, Mona Lisa's Veil: New and Selected Poems,
1979-2001 (Baksun Books, 2002), Dialogue of a Hundred
Preoccupations (with Tamra Spivey, Laocoon Press, 2002),
One Night (with Anne Waldman, Nest Egg Books, 2001),
Hymns (Dead Metaphor Press, 2000), and Awakening
Osiris (Selva Editions, 1996), His long poem on alchemy,
"A Map of the World," (from A Map of the World, Laocoon
Press, 2001, to be republished by Elik Press in 2005) was selected
for a special presentation at the International Congress of
the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in December 2001. First
Thought, Best Thought (a collection of four lectures by
Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, and Anne
Waldman) was released as a 4CD set by Sounds True in 2004. Since
1991, he has published over 40 volumes of original prose and
poetry and art criticism under his Laocoon Press imprint. (Continued
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