Poet Laureate of Suffolk County George Wallace is Touring
With A New Book Burn My Heart In Wet Sand, a new book of
poetry by American poet George Wallace, was released September 1, 2004
by Troubador Publishing, Ltd., Leicester, UK (ISBN: 1-904744-53-20).
This paperback edition features 68 pp, and lists for $15.00 (7.99
English Pounds, 12 Euros). It is available at
www.amazon.com or
through the publisher at
www.troubador.co.uk/tranference .
George Wallace is the first poet laureate for Suffolk County, Long
Island,
NY, and editor of Poetrybay (
www.poetrybay.com ), recently selected by Stanford University
for its international LOCKSS archiving project. He is the author of
eight other chapbooks of poetry, including the bi-lingual Swimming
Through Water, published by La Finestra Editrice in Trento, Italy.
He reads internationally
and regularly performs his work with jazz legend David Amram, as well as
such musicians as Paul Winston, Levon Helm, Jonny McEwans and Emanuele
Zottino. (David Amram photo left)
Wallace's work has been the subject of articles in the New York Times
(Long Island Section), Newsday, Daily News, Improper Hamptonian, Dan
Papers; and such poetry publications as Cafe Review, Ibbitson Press and
BigCityLit.
In the New York City area he has appeared uptown at
Carnegie Hall (Lyric Recovery) and the Algonquin Club Writers Group;
downtown at such venues as the Bowery Poetry Club, C-Note, Back Fence
and Cornelia Street Cafe; and on WBAI, WPKN, WUSB and WHRU radios.
Carol Hamilton, former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, says "If I could
remember all the details of dreams, the delights and confusions and
terrors of dreams, then I would have written this book."
Hal Sirowitz, former Poet Laureate of Queens, calls
Wallace's work "Language poetry that makes sense."
Gareth Higgins of the Irish School of Ecumenics calls
Wallace "my patron saint of contemporary mystic realism...transcendent
communion with people and the planet."
Italian poet Mary de Rachewiltz, daughter of Ezra Pound,
calls Wallace's poetry "literature in the right sense, news that stays
news."
And English poet Mario Petrucci, in his introduction to
Burn My Heart in Wet Sand, says "Something of Whitman has snuck into
Wallace - that same marrowy vigour, the uninhibited reach, that headlong
urgency riding the surfcrest of its own abundance - except that, with
Wallace, his narrative shirt-buttons are all undone."
Other poets in Troubador's Transference series include Anna Cole, Larry
Jaffe, Erminia Passananti and Francesco Agresti.
This month Wallace has begun to read from his work at a number of
locations on Long Island and New York City, and regionally in Lowell Ma,
Litchfield NH, Baltimore, Md and Albany NY. A list of locations is
appended. And in November he will tour Italy, the US and the UK to debut
Burn My Heart In Wet Sand and other new works.
FALL APPEARANCES ITALY
Sat Nov 13 Trento
Mon Nov 14 Roverto
Tues Nov 15 Univ Loyola, Rome
UNITED KINGDOM
Fri Nov 19 Manchester Central Lib
Fri Nov 19 Liverpool Central Library
Sat Nov 20 Flux Gallery, Leeds
Mon Nov 22 Bookcase Books, Carlisle
Tue Nov 23 Bluebell Books, Penrith
He reads internationally
and regularly performs his work with jazz legend David Amram, as well as
such musicians as Paul Winston, Levon Helm, Jonny McEwans and Emanuele
Zottino.
