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| Douglas Messerli has published several collections of poetry, including Dinner on the Lawn, Some Distance, River to Rivet, Maxims from My Mother's Milk, and Along Without: A Fiction in Film for Poetry, volume I of his trilogy, The Structure of Destruction. The second volume in that trilogy, his long poetic-performative piece, The Walls Come True was published by Littoral Books in 1995. In 1998 his collection of poetry, After was published. Forthcoming in 1999 is his epistolary novel, part III of The Structure of Destruction, Letters from Hanusse (published under the pseudonym of Joshua Haigh). He also has completed two other collections of poetry, First Words and Dark, and he is working, with artist John Baldessari, on Bow Down, which will be published in Italy in early 2000. A selection of his work, titled primeiras palavras recently was published in Portuguese in Brazil. His poetry has also been translated into French, Serbian, Spanish, and Romanian. | |
| Under the pen name, Kier Peters, he has written eight plays, among them The Confirmation, produced in July 1994 in New York and Past Present and Future Tense performed also in 1994 in San Francisco, and A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky was perfomed there in 1997 and in at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles in 1999. Michael Kowalski took the text of Past Present and Future Tense for his 1996 opera, Still in Love, which was recently issued as a CD. | |
| A former professor of literature at Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Messerli has been the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc. since its establishment in 1984 and Publisher of its Sun & Moon Press, which began its publishing activities as a magazine in 1976. The magazine won the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazine's Award for outstanding publishing, and the press won the Carey-Thomas Award for Creative Publishing in 1987. The Press was one of the first literary presses to receive an NEA Advancement Grant, and has received numerous NEA grants, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grant for promotion and publicity, and Andrew W. Mellon organizational grant in 1992, 1993, and 1994. In 1994 he was awarded the Harry Ford Editor's Award for Poetry given bi-annually by the National Poetry Series. In 1997 he began a new literary endeavor of pocket-sized belles-lettres books, Green Integer. In 1998 he received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for publishing. | |
| Dr. Messerli has previously served on NEA Literature, Literature Advancement Panel, and and the Advancement II Final panels. He has actively served on several panels of the California Arts Council, including Literature and Poetry Fellowships. He has also served on County and Local arts organizational panels in California and Arizona. In 2004 he was named Officier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. | |
| Poetry, Fiction, and Drama | ||||
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| Dinner
on the Lawn College Park, Maryland: Sun & Moon Press, 1979 [poetry] |
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| Some
Distance New York: Segue Books, 1982 [poetry] |
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| River
to Rivet: A Manifesto Washington, DC: Sun & Moon Press, 1985 [poetry] |
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River to Rivet:
A Poetic Trilogy |
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Maxims
from My Mother's Milk/Hymns to Him: A Dialogue Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1988 [poetry] |
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| Silence
All Round Marked: An Historical Play in Hysteria Writ Los Angeles: Corner Books/Blue Corner Drama 1992. [drama] |
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| An Apple,
A Day Riverdale, Maryland: Pyramid Atlantic, 1993 [poetry] |
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Along
Without: A Fiction in Film for Poetry Part I of The Structure of Destruction Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1993 [fiction/film/poetry] |
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[as
Kier Peters] The Confirmation Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993 [drama] A scene from this play has been chosen for inclusion in The Best Stage Scenes of 1994 published by Smith and Kraus. |
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The
Walls Come True: An Opera for Spoken Voices Part II of The Structure of Destruction Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1995 [poetry/drama/fiction] |
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Still
in Love CD of an opera, based on Past Present and Future Tense, composed by Michael Kowalski Equilibrium, 1997 |
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After
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1997 |
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| Primeiras
palavras Edited by Régis Bonvicino and translated into the Portuguese by Régis Bonvicino and Claudia Roquette-Pinto São Paolo: Ateliê Editorial, 1999 [includes selections from First Words and the play A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky, and interviews and other material] |
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| [as
Joshua Haigh] Letters from Hanusse Part III of The Structure of Destruction. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000. [fiction] |
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Bow
Down (with art by John Baldessari) Piacenza, Italy: ML & NLF, 2002. In Italian and English. [poetry] |
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| [as
Kier Peters] A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky: Six Short Plays Los Angeles Green Integer, 2004 |
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First
Words. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005 [poetry] |
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| Anthologies and Books Edited | ||||
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| Contemporary
American Fiction, with an Introduction College Park, Maryland: Sun & Moon Press, 1986 |
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| "Language"
Poetries, with an Introduction. New York: New Directions, 1987 |
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From
the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1990, with an
Introduction Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994 |
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| The
Sun & Moon Guide to Eating Through Literature & Art, with a Note Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994 |
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| 50:
A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics, with a Preface Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995 |
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| The
Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1993-1994, with a Preface Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995 |
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| The
Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994-1995, with an Introduction Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996 |
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| From
the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama 1960-1995 [edited with Mac Wellman] with a Preface Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1999 |
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| The
PIP Anthologies of World Poetry of the 20th Century, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 Green Integer: Los Angeles, 2000-2004 |
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| Critical and Scholarly Books | ||||
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| Djuna
Barnes: A Bibliography [with an essay, "Djuna Barnes: Legendary and
Unknown"] New York: David Lewis, 1976 |
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| Index
to Periodical Fiction in English, 1965-1969 Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977 |
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| Editor,
Smoke and Other Early Stories, by Djuna Barnes [with an Introduction titled, "The Newspaper Tales of Djuna Barnes"] College Park, Maryland: Sun & Moon Press, 1982 |
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| Editor,
Contemporary American Fiction [with an Introduction titled "Synchronic
Fiction."] Washington, D.C.: Sun & Moon Press, 1983 |
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| Commentary
and Foreword to Interviews, by Djuna Barnes Washington, D.C.: Sun & Moon Press, 1985 |