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David Melnick

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American poet

David Melnick (1938–2022[1]) was agayavant-gardeAmerican poet.[2] He was born in Illinois and grew up in Los Angeles, California.[2] He attended the University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley.

Book One of Melnick'shomophonic translation ofHomer'sIliad, titledMen in Aïda, was published in 1983 byLyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press. The farcical bathhouse scenario presented in Melnick's translation suggests underlyinghomoeroticism in the original text.[3] Melnick's work has been included inRon Silliman's 1986 anthology ofLanguage poetryIn the American Tree.Craig Dworkin andKenneth Goldsmith wrote about Melnick'sMen in Aïda in relation to conceptual poetics in 2010'sAgainst Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Often grouped withLanguage poetry, Melnick'sMen in Aïda has been compared toCelia and Louis Zukofsky'sCatullus[4] andPCOET has been discussed alongsideRussian FuturistVelimir Khlebnikov'szaum poetics.[5]

Bibliography

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  • Eclogs, Ithaca House, 1972
  • "The ‘Ought’ of Seeing: Zukofsky’s Bottom" inMaps. John Taggart, ed. 1973.[6]
  • PCOET, San Francisco: G.A.W.K., 1975
  • Men in Aïda, Book One, Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1983
  • A Pin's Fee, 1988
  • Men in Aïda, The Hague & Tirana: Uitgeverij. 2015.ISBN 9789491914041. This edition collects three books ofMen in Aïda in a single volume.

References

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  1. ^"Obituary: David Melnick". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. 1 March 2022. Retrieved1 March 2022.
  2. ^abSilliman, Ronald. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. 602.
  3. ^Perelman, Bob.The marginalization of poetry: language writing and literary history (book). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 24.ISBN 978-0-691-02138-6.OCLC 185423402. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
  4. ^Dworkin, Craig Douglas, and Kenneth Goldsmith.Against Expression: an Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011. 418.
  5. ^Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena.The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 175-181.
  6. ^Mark Scroggins. "David Melnick: PCOET" Culture Industry. 20 April, 2005.

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