NYC BOOK RELEASE
Tuesday, April 22
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A long poem, hand-bound and encased in letterpressed and rubber-stamped covers. A limited number of the chapbook will be available at the release reading (see above).

Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry, including A Message Back And Other Furors (Chax Press), The Tower Of Diverse Shores (Talisman House), and Language As Responsibility (Tinfish Editions). In recent years he has read from his work at international festivals, conferences, and universities in China, Turkey, France, Belgium, Portugal, Russia, Australia, Argentina, and Peru, as well as at numerous venues in the U.S., ranging from the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, to the University of Hawaii, The College of Santa Fe, The University of Utah, Stephens Institute of Technology, and the St. Marks Poetry Project in New York City. Schwartz also hosts the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics, archived online at Pennsound. He teaches at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington.

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Praise for Leonard Schwartz' previous work:

"Leonard Schwartz's poems introduce philosophical meditation to emotional sensibility in a way that has become unusual in contemporary poetry. In his work, one feels the risk, even the vertigo, of the mind orienting itself to otherness, to world, and to language. The sublimating and uplifting rhythms of his poems are pierced with veins of divinity. One might say in fact that the body of his work unwinds a long Gnostic inquiry that begins to articulate the contradictions and complexities of a significant and richly felt thought."

—Forrest Gander