Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about.
Amiri Baraka
The Final Nite (2nd Edition)
Steve Dalachinsky
Yuko Otomo, Contributor
November 2024
Winner of the 2007 PEN Oakland National Book Award, The Final Nite & Other Poems, Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006 chronicles, in verse, nearly two decades of work written while listening to live performances by the musician Charles Gayle. Including every poem written under these circumstances, the poems reflect, respond to, or incorporate elements of Gayle’s music as well as his “speeches” and “sermons.”
This second edition includes a new introduction by Yuko Otomo.
About the Author
Steve Dalachinsky (1946–2019) was a poet and collagist. His books included Fools Gold (New Feral Press), A Superintendent’s Eyes (Unbearable Books / Autonomedia), Flying Home (Paris Lit Up Press), The Invisible Ray (Overpass Press), Frozen Heatwave (Luna Bissonte Prods), Black Magic (New Feral Press), Where Night and Day Become One: The French Poems (Great Weather for Media), The Chicken Whisper (Positive Magnets Press), and the chapbook In Glorious Black and White (UDP). Dalachinsky received several awards in his lifetime, including the PEN Oakland National Book Award for his book The Final Nite (UDP), a 2014 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a 2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for his poem “Particle Fever.”
Praise
In these times of cautious and pious reverence and calculated irreverence, Steve Dalachinsky was the real deal: he wrote and spoke from the soul, his only credentials a crystal ear, hard-won experience, and a huge heart. Listen up.
Ammiel Alcalay
This book is a vital document of the years that straddled the millennium of a rapidly changing New York; a tribute to a city where art, music, and poetry were the lifeblood of human consciousness.
Cisco Bradley
The honesty of the voice in these pieces is unimpeachable.
Matthew Shipp
Every scholar & lover of new jazz and spontaneous poetry should know this book by heart. It is a gem of its Time.
Anne Waldman
Steve Dalachinsky was an evocator, stirred by the banshee cries of wailing saxophones... A steersman who guided us through the fog of unspeakable beauty. We are lost without him.
Tom Surgal
About the Contributor
Yuko Otomo is a visual artist and a bilingual (Japanese/English) writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, travelogues, and essays. Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (UDP), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), Study (UDP), Elements (the Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press), Frozen Heatwave, a collaboration with Steve Dalachinsky (Luna Bisonte Prods), and Envelope (Poems-For-All). She lives in New York City.
Links
Other UDP titles from Steven Dalachinsky here
Publication Details
ISBN: 978-1-946604-33-0
Trade Paperback
264 pp, 6 x 8 in
Publication Date: November 15 2024
Distribution: Asterism Books