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Andrew Joron

American writer

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1955

Profession: translator, novelist, science fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Andrew Joron

  • Andrew Joron is an American writer of experimental poetry.
  • He began by writing science fiction poetry.
  • Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov.
  • Joron currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • In fall 2014, Joron joined the faculty of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.He has won the Rhysling Award three times: for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006. Joron's poetry is included in two W.
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  • Norton anthologies: American Hybrid (2009), edited by Cole Swensen and David St.
  • John, and Postmodern American Poetry (2013), edited by Paul Hoover. Joron is the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays which was published by Stanford University Press in 1998.
  • Joron is also the translator of The Perpetual Motion Machine by the German fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). During the 1990s, Andrew Joron formed a close friendship with the poet and novelist Gustaf Sobin.
  • Sobin, who died in 2005, designated Joron as his literary co-executor, along with American poet Andrew Zawacki.Joron also belonged to the circle of Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia in San Francisco from the late '90s until Lamantia's death in 2005.
  • Joron later served as co-editor, with Garrett Caples and Nancy Joyce Peters, of the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, published by University of California Press (2013). Since 2008 he has played theremin in various free-improv and ambient-music ensembles, including Cloud Shepherd.
  • Joron has written an essay, "The Theremin in My Life," on the relation between his literary and musical activities.

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