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"VASTNESS, ROUGHNESS, VERTICALITY...."

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Recent Performances:

Nightmaze
A new live-performance version of Nightmaze, created in collaboration with composer Sebastian Currier and projection artist Sage Carter, was performed live in Philadelphia by the Network for New Music, and in New York City by Mosaic (both 2005).

"...a highway road trip that goes places Thelma and Louise never imagined."

"Nightmaze is based on a scenario by novelist Thomas Bolt. It has a university student, exhausted by exams, half-dreaming and half-hallucinating about speeding down a highway that has road signs offering exits into remote corners of his psyche and forks demanding a choice between fear and pleasure. When the voyager begins traveling through endless sea and then into outer space, the video element is nearly as indispensable as the music. A similar road was traveled in Jean Cocteau's film Orphee, when a modern-dress Orpheus drives his car into the underworld."

"... admirably inspired... this journey into the unknown is full of arresting imagery... Every turn is breathtaking."

—Philadelphia Inquirer

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Recent Publications:

The Yale Review
"Light Emitting Diode"

Southwest Review
"Bag of Nails"

Literary Imagination
"At the Motel of the Villa of the Mysteries"

Featured Writers:

Edwin Frank
Jeffrey Gustavson
Melissa Monroe
Sophie Forrester

Congratulations to Edwin Frank for his new book, The Further Adventures of Pinocchio, and for Stack. Stack is available from > UDP.

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Longer Poems:

Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood and the Northeast Corridor

Dark Ice
A 1,001-line, book-length poem (with notes and parodies of notes) in hypertext

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