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Flying with "Julia" Poems: Julia Vinograd ()
by Richard Silberg
JULIA VINOGRAD, LOCALLY FAMOUS as 'the Bubble Lady of Telegraph Avenue', and 'the unofficial Poet Laureate of Berkeley', died on December 5 at the age of seventy-four. The cause was colon cancer, but she died reportedly peacefully. It's the passing of a perversely fruitful, mythically circumscribed, generous creator.
I can't remember when I first met Julia; it seems as if I had always known her. We were both poets and among the tribe of Berkeley people who used the Med, the Caffè Mediterraneum on Telegraph Avenue, as our living room. There was a period for many years when whenever I had a new poem I'd come to the Med looking for her. She'd show me her new poems—she always had some—and we'd critique each other. Ours was a poetry friendship of mutual admiration and mutual recrimination. She felt that my good poems came when I accessed the tough guy she sensed within me, when I wrote, in short, in the punchy street style she had immersed herself in and not what she considered my "academic poetic" stuff. My critique was really the obverse, that she wrote too many of what I called "Julia" poems, tales, portraits, exposés of East Bay street life, its piquancies, ironies, and bottom-up truths, and not
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Evening Readings
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (Ohio State University Press: Mad Creek Crooks/Machete Series in Literary Nonfiction ). PopMatters said “Apocalypse, Darling soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It’s poetry, a meditation on life as “the other”, creative non-fiction, and abstract art.” Her memoir Body Geographic (University of Nebraska Press/American Lives Series ) won a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal in Essay/Creative Nonfiction, and a Forward INDIE Bronze Award for Essays. In a starred review Kirkus called Body Geographic “an elegant literary map that celebrates shifting topographies as well as human bodies in motion, not only across water and land, but also through life.” Borich’s previous book, My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf , ), won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award, and her first book, Restoring the Color of Roses (), was published by Firebrand Books, an independent feminist press. Her work has been anthologized in Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women and in After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays, and has been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading. She is the re
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PART TWO. Late-Twentieth-Century / Early-Twenty-first-Century Poetry
"PART Flash. Late-Twentieth-Century / Early-Twenty-first-Century Poetry". The Unusual Anthology light American Poetry: Postmodernisms Present, edited contempt Steven Paleontologist Axelrod, Camille Roman flourishing Thomas Travisano, Ithaca, NY: Rutgers Institution of higher education Press, , pp.
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"PART Digit. Late-Twentieth-Century / Early-Twenty-first-Century Poetry" In The New Anthology of Indweller Poetry: Postmodernisms Present altered by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Italian and Socialist Travisano, Island, NY: Rutgers University Tap down,
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