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Collected Memoirs
Michael Gottlieb tells us of the years, and holds nothing back. The language poets, the New York poets, the whole shebang! COLLECTED MEMOIRS is the third in Chax Press's uniform edition of Michael Gottlieb's works, joining the SELECTED POEMS (2021) and COLLECTED ESSAYS (2023). What are we doing then, when we delve into the past, our own or someone else's? Are we engaging in (auto)biography, archeology, history, a form of fiction, or nonfiction? Isn't examining the past a poetry of a sorts? Not merely nostalgia, but something else, something less easy to pin down. No doubt we delve into the past to make sense of our lives, perhaps even to justify them, but that's only part of the story. With ...
I Had Every Intention
Poetry. Here is the new, moving and hilarious book of poems from Michael Gottlieb, a key first-gen Language poet. Many of Michael Gottlieb's pieces have been adopted for the stage, including his poem about 9/11, "The Dust," which Ron Silliman named "the first great poetic work to emerge from [that] trauma." American Book Review says MEMOIR AND ESSAY, "does for New York what A Moveable Feast did for Paris." Alan Davies observes, "Michael Gottlieb is a reader of the fortunes of these times, the ones we live in. And he is a teller of those fortunes."
Memoir and Essay
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Critical Writing. Responding to MEMOIR AND ESSAY Ron Silliman writes, "Michael Gottlieb saw it all, did it all & appears to have taken notes. MEMOIR AND ESSAY is a personal history of the evolution of Language poetry in New York City in the 1970s as viewed by one of its key innovators. Gottlieb's attention to detail & sensitivity to the interpersonal dynamics of the scene make this a crucial document for understanding progressive poetics in the late 20th century. Gottlieb's prose makes it a pleasure." Kasey Silem Mohammed adds, "A life in, of, and for poetry: Michael Gottlieb generously lays bare the one he has led, putting in plain terms the measures by which the discipline asserts itself as a constitutive force, a shaping regime of identity and counter-identity, community action and individual reflection. In his recounting of his own experience coming into poetry in 1970s New York, as well as his meditations on poet's work (the work of poetry itself and the work that poets do in the world), Gottlieb gives us an immensely valuable document in the annals of Language writing and contemporary literary autobiography generally."
Collected Essays
Gottlieb defends the necessity of poetry and why poets matter. "Michael Gottlieb's Socratically-canted essays, all formally addressed to poets, should keep you up at night, even if you're not a poet. There are no answers here, only inquiries that increase exponentially by the asking. The questions Gottlieb pose range from the embarrassing (what might our responsibilities to other poets be?) to the confounding (what is the role of love in our work?). Each question opens out into more questions that should be considered, even meditated upon. "I'd argue," he ventures, "listening is the beginning." The world has changed so much in the twelve years since the first of these writings were published but, still it seems, listening (wedded to an honest ask) may be the truest activism."--Sharon Mesmer Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Poetics.
Dear All
Poetry. Michael Gottlieb's DEAR ALL strikes a note of change to both Gottlieb's style and his intentions to change society by holding up a mirror to it. The resulting social vanitas in DEAR ALL's short lines make us think that the world might be different than we think it is. And the poetry certainly is different than we expect. The sonorous, lexical intricacy, social indignation and attention to imaginative, formal detail DEAR ALL presents to us undresses our intention in the public square. "In DEAR ALL Michael Gottlieb introduces a shorter line and a pared-down style, as paratactic as ever but with a new clipped clarity. Of course, Gottlieb is writer enough to abolish the neatness of this progression, as he does in the final long poem of this book, a wild mash-up of medical spam that reframes the book in terms of its formal inconsistency: Great stuff." Steve Zultansky"
Selected Poems
"At last! The essential Michael Gottlieb in one volume. For decades, Gottlieb's publications and live readings have been accruing admirers from vanguardist writing communities nationwide. From his beginnings as a lexical atomicist to his later staged documentary pieces, this extensive collection will prove Gottlieb to be one of the most forensic poets of our time. Whether closely examining the radical uncertainty of privately lived phenomenon or tracking the nano-moments of accidental public encounters, these works brim with a wit and quirkiness that's sure to thrill brow-furrowed scholars, roustabout flaneurs, and solitary text trippers in equal measure."-- Rodrigo Toscano "With a sardonic,...
New York
Poetry. "The Great Pavement" and "The Ulterior Parkways," the two long poems that make up Michael Gottlieb's NEW YORK, each consist of sixty brief sections that are by turns elegant, direct, gritty, oblique. They offer the reader a completely refreshed sense and sensibility. Like an extended "exercize" in tonal breath control, the familiar sights and sounds and aspirations of city life pass through the author's prose, refracted in the light of his prismatic feeling for the cultivated languages, informational hums, whines and clatters of urban life. Beneath the cosmetic verities of the quotidian, Gottlieb assays the shadows of ambition, the underpainting of memory, the bone structure of history, the masks of humor. What emerges is a generalized portrait of a particular place, as much talk as take, as much savvy as cool, a cartographic thrust and parry rhythm flush with stories, wised-up with experience. As grainy as the dots of a tabloid photo, the sentences in Gottlieb's NEW YORK make attention specific. They give us back a place we only thought we knew.
Feynman's Tips on Physics
Feynman's Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman's insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics With characteristic flair, insight, and humor, Feynman discusses topics physics students often struggle with and offers valuable tips on addressing them. Included here are three lectures on problem-solving and a lecture on inertial guidance omitted from The Feynman Lectures on Physics. An enlightening memoir by Matthew Sands and oral history interviews with Feynman and his Caltech colleagues provide firsthand accounts of the origins of Feynman's landmark lecture series. Also included are incisive and illuminating exercises originally developed to supplement The Feynman Lectures on Physics, by Robert B. Leighton and Rochus E. Vogt. Feynman's Tips on Physics was co-authored by Michael A. Gottlieb and Ralph Leighton to provide students, teachers, and enthusiasts alike an opportunity to learn physics from some of its greatest teachers, the creators of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
What We Do
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "We sit in our rooms. We write. We try to read. It begins to grow dark. We switch on the light. We wait for the world to come to us. Or, we don't. We start asking ourselves questions. Others arrive unbidden. One of the questions: what kind of jobs do we, should we, as poets, end up with while we do our real job?"
The Likes of Us
Poetry. "In Michael Gottlieb's new book, THE LIKES OF US, each phrase is like a shady character. Each disqualifies itself, somehow, leaving us where we really are: in a landscape composed of doubtful moral states. What lies in wait for the reader of THE LIKES OF US? Disturbing complicities? "Monstrous discoveries?"--Rae Armantrout. "Michael Gottlieb's poetry eliminates the distinction between traditional elegiac lyric and the avant-garde poetic impulse. Incessant detail, along with mental and social phenomena--now-blurred, now razor-sharp--build gradually into a richly dissonant, inviting resonance. As beautiful as it is exacting, THE LIKES OF US will reward the energy you give it many times over"--Drew Gardner.
