Bruce Andrews

Poet, performance writer, poetics theorist, sound designer, Bruce Andrews moved to New York City in 1975, teaching Political Science at Fordham in the Bronx (specialties: U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, covert activity, cultural studies & the JFK assassination) for the next 37 years — (for 5 minutes of entertainment, google his stand-off with Bill O’Reilly as ‘Outrage of the Week’).  Closely associated with the post-1970s experimental literary movement, so-called ‘Language Poetry’, he coedited the poetics journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E with Charles Bernstein. He has published 30+ books including Film Noir, Wobbling, R + B, Love Songs, Give Em Enough Rope, Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened, I Don’t Have any Paper so Shut up, or Social Romanticism, Tizzy Boost, EX WHY ZEE, Lip Service, Designated Heartbeat, Swoon Noir, You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!, A Change Is Gonna Come, and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters. His essays on literary theory & poetics are collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis. Long involved in multi-media collaborations — including the performance project BARKING (started with Sally Silvers & Tom Cora), staging large-cast theater spectacles— for decades he has been Sally Silvers & Dancers’ main music/text collaborator — composer, sound designer, & improvising live mixer.