Description:
Shakespeare, Beckett, Hair, absurdist theater, the usher (the Fall of the House of) and theater made behind bedsheets ghost through Theatrix: Poetry Plays to explode our notion of the fourth wall.
Brief description:
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 19 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, and translation.Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet appeared in paper in 2018, and Great American Desert, a book of stories, in 2019. Doubleback Books reprinted Treason, her fourth book of poetry, in 2020. She has also been awarded the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has had Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Yaddo, McDowell, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall in 2005. A native of Nebraska, she now divides her time between a houseboat in Victoria BC and NYC with her husband and a moth-eared papillion named Fred.