Ke Xuen's Weblog

I like Joshua Beckman. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied poems at Hampshire college, and since then he has written five books. His poems has a sense of irony, and he is also an editor of Wave Books, a poetry press.From the titles of his books, we can tell that he did not like to beat around the bush and always went straight to the point. I think he has quite a good sense of humour, and also can make the story turn right and left together, which creates the irony i previously mentioned.He is the now author of five books of poetry: Things Are Happening (1998); Something I Expected To Be Different (2001); Nice Hat. Thanks. (2002), written with Matthew Rohrer; Your Time Has Come (2004), and most recently, Shake (Wave Books, 2006).He also has numerous books of translation, including the forthcoming Five Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker by Tomaž Šalamun (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003) which was a finalist for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award.

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