Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino | |
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Scalapino in Speaking Portraits (c.2004) | |
| Born | July 25, 1944 |
| Died | May 28, 2010 (aged 65) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, publisher |
| Education | B.A. Reed College; M.A. University of California at Berkeley |
| Period | Postmodern |
| Genre | Inter-genre |
| Subject | "Continual conceptual rebellion" |
| Years active | 1974 – 2010 |
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Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.