james scully

For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry -- in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written -- and this book is important not only in itself but as an indication of a necessary, healthy development in American letters.

James Scully was born in 1937 in New Haven, CT. Winner of the 1967 Lamont Award, he was also the recipient of a 1973 Guggenheim Fellowship. He spent 19733-1974 in Santiago de Chile, during the early stage of the Pinochet regime, which he documented in his poetry book, Santiago Poems.

Over the years, his poetry has appeared in many diverse periodicals. He has read his poetry at many colleges and universities, as well as the Theater of Latin America and the U.S. Congress. He has written essays and plays as well as poetry, and during the early 1980s he was general editor for Curbstone's ART ON THE LINE chapbook series.

Works by James Scully from Curbstone Press:
Apollo Helmet
Line Break : Poetry as Social Practice
Quechua Peoples Poetry
Santiago Poems