作者簡介
安妮‧華曼
集詩人、表演家、教授、編輯、文化活動家於一身,曾與艾倫‧金斯堡在科羅拉多州納羅帕大學一起創立傑克.凱魯亞克解體詩藝學院。華曼現為納羅帕大學詩學榮譽教授,擔任該校夏季寫作課程的藝術主任。金斯堡常常把華曼稱為「心靈上的妻子」。她曾出版超過40本詩集,包括精微經典系列詩集《快嘴女人》(1974)、《婚姻:審判》(2000)、《海牛╱人性》(2009)等。華曼憑藉《曖葦絲三部曲:隱蔽機制的顏色》贏得「2012美國筆會詩歌獎」,2013-2014年獲得「古根漢獎金」,現為美國詩人學院的主席。《出版人週報》譽華曼為「反文化巨人」。
Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor and cultural activist. Allen Ginsberg has often referred to Waldman as his “spiritual wife.” She is the author of over 40 books of poetry,
including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, 1974), Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin Poets, 2000), the book-length hybrid Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets, 2009), and the feminist
epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House, 2011) which is the winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. Waldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship (2013–14) and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.