Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010)

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Leslie Scalapino is the author of approximately twenty-two books of fiction, poetry, plays, and criticism. Her long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award. Her work has been included in over twenty anthologies. Her plays have been performed show more in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. She teaches at Bard College in the summer MFA Program show less

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Works by Leslie Scalapino

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Way (1988) 49 copies, 1 review

Considering How Exaggerated Music Is (1982) 36 copies

The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence (1999) 33 copies

How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (1989) 30 copies

The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (1996) 29 copies

It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 (New California Poetry) (2008) 28 copies

that they were at the beach (Aeolotropic Series) (1985) 28 copies

Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (2003) 26 copies

The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy (1991) 22 copies

New Time (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (1999) 21 copies

Defoe (EL-E-PHANT Books/Green Integer) (1995) 20 copies

Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction (2003) 17 copies

The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom (2010) 16 copies

Crowd and not evening or light (1992) 11 copies

Objects in the Terrifying Tense Longing from Taking Place (1993) 11 copies

It's Go In/Quiet Illumined Grass/Land (2002) 11 copies

Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006 (EL-E-PHANT Books) (2007) 9 copies

Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (2010) 7 copies

Goya's L.A. (1994) 7 copies

O. And other poems. (1976) 7 copies

Green and Black: Selected Writings (1996) 7 copies

O One: An Anthology (1988) 7 copies

Tango, The (2001) 6 copies

R-Hu (2000) 6 copies

The Line (1994) 5 copies

Enough (2003) 5 copies

War and Peace (2004) 5 copies

This Eating and Walking at the Same Time Is Associated Alright (1979) 5 copies

The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs. (1976) 5 copies

Orchid Jetsam (2001) 4 copies

'Can't" is 'Night' (Belladonna #50) 4 copies

Seamless Antilandscape (1999) 4 copies

Flow--Winged Crocodile & a Pair/Actions Are Erased/Appear (2010) 4 copies

The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water (2013) 3 copies

The Weatherman Turns Himself In (1995) 3 copies

Belladonna Elders Series 1 (2008) 3 copies

Instead of an Animal (1978) 2 copies

What Is the Inside, What Is Outside: O/Two an Anthology (1991) 2 copies

How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino (2011-05-15) 1 copy

Public World/Syntactically Impermanence, The 1 copy

Abacus, issue 113: Hearing 1 copy

from Chameleon Series 1 copy

The New Review of Literature: volume 4, number 1, October 2006 (Volume 4, Number 1) (2006) 1 copy

La Foule Et Pas Le Soir Ou La Lumiere, Traduit de l'americain par Jean-Paul Auxemery 1 copy

The Return of Painting, The Peral, and Orion 1 copy, 1 review

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Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1994) — Contributor — 518 copies, 4 reviews

From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 181 copies

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 125 copies

Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004) — Contributor — 50 copies, 1 review

The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contributor — 28 copies

Crayon 5: On Beauty — Contributor — 2 copies

ACTS: NO. 1: JUNE 1982. — Contributor — 2 copies

Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Number 1, The Alice Notley Issue — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Scalapino, Leslie
Birthdate: 1944-07-25
Date of death: 2010-05-28
Gender: female
Education: University of California, Berkeley (MA)
Reed College (BA|1966)
Occupations: poet
playwright
essayist
editor
teacher
publisher
Organizations: O Books
Relationships: Scalapino, Robert A. (father)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Places of residence: Berkeley, California, USA
Oakland, California, USA
Place of death: Berkeley, California, USA
Map Location: California, USA

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eponymous1970 1,371 reviews

The Return of Painting, The Peral, and Orion by Leslie Scalapino

Fiction. Novels in a trilogy, but without the orderly development of plot and character, suggesting the radical chaos of human experience by writing from an ever-shifting multitude of perspectives. 'Refusal of order is rebellion.'

Jul 18, 2026

eponymous1970 1,371 reviews

Way by Leslie Scalapino