Portraits
Poems
by B. Z. Niditch
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Through the eyes of a war-child violin prodigy who came of age in the era of Beat and Post-Beat poets comes this collection of homages, profiles, and brief flashes of singsong odes to pop culture and The Greats of centuries past. With the stream-of-consciousness that bookended the Beat age, Niditch—a longstanding staple of the outlaw poetry scene—taps into his love of jazz rhythms, the nature of oceanside New England, and the poets, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and theatrical performers who were his poetic forebears and influences through decades of shifting culture. From war-time French poets to ostracized gay artists to pop icons to persecuted religious and political prisoners, Niditch splashes bright acrylic over the canvas of analysis and essence, pulling from a bygone era its nuances and lasting legacies, and framing them in the lens of contemporary artistic, political, and social awareness.
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The Wardenclyffe Series is a collection of books preserving the words of Beat and Post-Beat poets whose work first saw publication prior to the new millennium and the digital age. Alternating Current Press eagerly acquires the work of voices past to influence the voices of the future.
• Wardenclyffe Series Book 1
• Poetry | Culture
• 5” x 8” Perfectbound Trade Paperback
• Cream Paper, 182 Pages
• Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-946580-09-2
• Paperback ISBN-10: 1-946580-09-0
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• First Edition: February 12, 2019
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Cover design by Leah Angstman using the modified and upside-down artwork Ghosts 157 by Ashley Parker Owens.
About the Author
B. Z. NIDITCH was born in 1943, a war-child violin prodigy who came of age in the era of Beat and Post-Beat poets, and claims Marcel Proust as his favorite author. He is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, teacher, and aphorist, as well as the founder and artistic director of The Original Theatre in Boston, which has presented original, experimental plays on contemporary social and political themes since 1990. His work has been widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world for decades, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Review, Le Guépard (France), Kadmos (France), Jejune (Czech Republic), Leopold Bloom (Hungary), Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other outlets. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and has published numerous chapbooks with small presses, including Captive Cities, Lorca at Seville, Fugitive Poet, Terezin, Boston Fall, Childhood, Freedom Trail, and Everything, Everywhere, as well as a collection of his aphorisms, Dictionary of the 21st Century.
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