Leslie Scalapino

Early life and education Scalapino was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised in Berkeley. She traveled throughout her youth and adulthood to Asia, Africa and Europe and her writing was intensely influenced by these experiences. In childhood Scalapino traveled with her father Robert A. Scalapino (founder of UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies), her mother, and her two sisters (Diane and Lynne).

Career Scalapino published her first book O and Other Poems in 1976.

Selected bibliography

Poetry O and Other Poems, Sand Dollar Press, 1976 The Woman who Could Read the Minds of Dogs, Sand Dollar Press, 1976 Instead of an Animal, Cloud Marauder Press, 1978 This eating and walking is associated all right, Tombouctou, 1979 Considering how exaggerated music is, North Point Press, 1982 that they were at the beach — aeolotropic series, North Point Press, 1985 way, North Point Press, 1988 Crowd and not evening or light, O Books, 1992 Sight (with Lyn Hejinian), Edge Books, 1999 New Time, Wesleyan University Press, 1999 The Tango, (with Marina Adams), Granary Press, 2001 Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006, Green Integer (E-L-E-PHANT Series), 2007 It's go in horizontal, Selected Poems 1974-2006, UC Press, Berkeley, 2008

Fiction The Return of Painting, DIA Foundation, 1990 The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion : A Trilogy, North Point, 1991; Talisman, 1997 Defoe, Sun & Moon Press, 1995 The Front Matter, Dead Souls, Wesleyan University Press, 1996 Orchid Jetsam, Tuumba, 2001 Dahlia's Iris — Secret Autobiography and Fiction, FC2, November 2003

Inter-genre writings The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence, Wesleyan University Press, 1999 How Phenomena Appear To Unfold, Potes & Poets Press, 1991 Objects in the Terrifying Tense / Longing from Taking Place, Roof Books, 1994 Green and Black, Selected Writings, Talisman Publishers, 1996 R-hu, Atelos Press, 2000 Zither and Autobiography, Wesleyan, 2003 Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, 2010 The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, The Post-Apollo Press / O Books, 2010

Plays Goya's L.A., a play, Potes & Poets Press, 1994 (music by Larry Ochs) Stone Marmalade (the Dreamed Title), (with Kevin Killian) Singing Horse Press, 1996 The Weatherman Turns Himself In, Zasterle Press, Spain 1999 Flow-Winged Crocodile & A Pair/Actions Are Erased/Appear, Chax Press, Tucson AZ 2010