Building the Bury Neon (Poetry)
My sculpture
for Sentences
@ The Bury Art Gallery,
April 30 – July 11
in the city of Bury, Lancashire
My thanks to Taylor Electronics,
& especially to Justin Pooley,
James & Colin Taylor
for executing this project
(photos by Phil Davenport)
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
