JOHN YAU

'John Yau' (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City.
He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published more over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism. His most recent book is Paradiso Diaspora (2006).
His collections of poetry include ''Borrowed Love Poems'' (Penguin, 2002), ''Forbidden Entries'' (1996), ''Berlin Diptychon''(1995), ''Edificio Sayonara'' (1992), and ''Corpse and Mirror'' (1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery (to whom he is often compared). Artists' books include books with Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand,Norman Bluhm, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include ''The United States of Jasper Johns'' (1996) and ''In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol'' (1993). He has also edited ''Fetish ''(1998), a fiction anthology.
Yau's honors include the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the General Electric Foundation. He currently teaches art criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

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Bibliography (Selection)

Weblinks

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Bibliography (Selection)

★ 1983 – Corpse and Mirror (Poems)

★ 1992 – Edificio Sayonara (Poems)

★ 1993 – In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (Critique)

★ 1995 – Berlin Diptychon (Poems)

★ 1995 – Hawaiian Cowboys

★ 1996 – Forbidden Entries (Poems)

★ 1996 – The United States of Jasper Johns (Critique)

★ 1998 – Fetish (Editor)

★ 1998 – My Symptoms

★ 1999 – In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations ( Essay of Yau)

★ 2002 – Borrowed Love Poems (Poems)

★ 2006 – "andalusia" Autors: John Yau (Poems), Leiko Ikemura, Verlag: Weidle Verlag, ISBN 3931135969

Weblinks

★ John Yau, Giant Wall

★ John Yau Exhibit at The Academy of American Poets

★ John Yau books at Black Sparrow

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