1. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Meimei Berssenbrugge is an influential contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei-mei_Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is an influential contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards , her work is often associated with the Language School , the poetry of the New York School phenomenology , and visual art. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle , with whom she has frequently collaborated. Contents Life Work Notes External links ... edit Life Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing in 1947, but grew up in Massachusetts. Her work is known for its exploration of the complexities of cultural and political identity, an interest informed by her own experience of cultural and linguistic displacement. She was educated at Barnard Reed , and Columbia University . After receiving her M.F.A. from Columbia in 1974, she settled in rural northern New Mexico which has remained her primary residence since then. After receiving her degree, Berssenbrugge became active in the multi-cultural poetry movement of the 1970’s along with her good friend Leslie Marmon Silko as well as Ishmael Reed , theater director Frank Chin , and political activist Kathleen Chang . Berssenbrugge taught at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, where she co-founded the internal literary journal

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3. Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Meimei Berssenbrugge was born in 1947 in her mother s native city of Beijing, in China. Her father, the son of Dutch immigrants to the U.S., met her mother http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/989

Home View Cart Log In More Info FURTHER READING Related Prose The Kelsey Street Press Related Pages External Links Interview with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Conducted by Laura Hinton, from Jacket Reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge From PENNsound, Berssenbruge reads from I Love Artists and is interviewed by Charles Bernstein. Adopt a Poet Add to Notebook E-mail to Friend Print Credit: Kiki Smith Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in 1947 in her mother's native city of Beijing, in China. Her father, the son of Dutch immigrants to the U.S., met her mother while working at the American Embassy in Chungking. While Berssenbrugge was still a baby, the family moved to the U.S. where she grew up in Massachusetts. She attended Barnard College for a year before transferring to Reed College, where she earned her B.A. in 1969, followed by an M.F.A from Columbia University in 1973. After graduate school, Berssenbrugge moved to New Mexico where she taught at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, and became actively involved in the local artistic community. Through frequent trips to New York City, Berssenbrugge also became deeply engaged and influenced by the city's movements of abstract artists, and New York School and Language poets , a milieu that included John Ashbery Barbara Guest Charles Bernstein , and Anne Waldman . Her engagement led to many rich collaborations with other artists, including the creation of artist books with Richard Tuttle and Kiki Smith, and theatre works with Shi Zhen Chen, Frank Chin, Blondell Cummings, Tan Dun, and Alvin Lucier.

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5. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge berssenbrugge reads from I Love Artists New and Selected Poems Used with permission of meimei berssenbrugge. ©2002-2006 mei-mei berssenbrugge. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berssenbrugge.html

Quick Google Search: PennSound Singles Authors Series Anthologies / Collections / Groups ... Close Listening readings and conversations at WPS1.Org Clocktower Studio, New York, April 28, 2006 WPS1 Reading Berssenbrugge reads from I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems ( University of California Press, 2006) FULL PROGRAM (30:15): Singles: from Fog (8:59) Health (5:38) I Love Artists (6:35) Concordance (7:05) Berssenbrugge in Conversation with Charles Bernstein (28:23): Close Listening produced by Charles Bernstein for WPS1 Studio Engineer: Darrell McNeill Recorded live at WKCR-FM (New York) recorded by Tom Kelly on May 17, 2002 1. Ideal (12:51) 2. Nest (14:55) 3. Safety (2:37) Also of interest: At Reed College, 1991 (27:00): RealAudio Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club LINKS UC Berkeley Lunch Poems: videos These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. PennSound.

6. EPC/Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Author Home Page meimei berssenbrugge was born in Beijing in 1947 and grew up in Massachusetts. Among her books are The Heat Bird (Burning Deck 1983), Empathy (Station Hill http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/berssenbrugge/

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing in 1947 and grew up in Massachusetts. Among her books are The Heat Bird (Burning Deck 1983), Empathy (Station Hill, 1989), Sphericity (Kelsey Street, 1993), Endocrinology (Kelsey Street, 1997) (an artist book with Kiki Smith), Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey Street 1998), and Nest (Kelsey Street, 2003) I Love Artists: New Selected and Poems , was published by University of California Press in 2006. Online Works Sound Files at PennSound Writings Kate's Talk from How(ever) from The Retired Architect from A Context of a Wave from Conjunctions Interviews Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Charles Bernstein: A Dialogue (from Conjunctions 35, 2000) Three conversations (Laura Hinton in Jacket 27, 2003) About the Author Charles Altieri, "Intimacy and Experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy Endocrinology Dia Centre for the Arts Send a Comment Search Home Electronic Poetry Center ( http://epc.buffalo.edu

7. Jacket 27 - April 2005 - Laura Hinton - Three Conversations With Mei-mei Berssen meimei berssenbrugge’s life, like her poetry, has played itself out upon a surface of mei-mei berssenbrugge I’m trying to remember when I read Dictée. http://jacketmagazine.com/27/hint-bers.html

Search Catalog Homepage Three Conversations with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Laura Hinton This interview is 8,800 words or about 20 printed pages long. Photographs by Laura Hinton. Introduction Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, photo by Ann Hutchins Tyuonyi. Traveling frequently to New York City, Berssenbrugge became engaged in the rich cultural flourishing of the abstract art movement, and was influenced by New York School poets John Ashbery and James Sherry, and then the Language poets, including Barbara Guest, Anne Waldman, Charles Bernstein, as well as artist Susan Bee. The Heat Bird (Burning Deck 1983), Empathy (Station Hill, 1989), Sphericity (Kelsey Street, 1993), Endocrinology Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey Street 1998), and, most recently, Nest (Kelsey Street, 2003). An edition of selected poems is forthcoming from the University of California Press. June 2003 in medias res . Before writing Four Year Old Girl , I was reading some of the cultural identity texts about nomads and the subaltern. I think Theresa Cha wrote this work before such studies became fashionable. When I read , her passion attracted me, but also the sense that she was carving meaning with each word in the moment, in a way that was almost sculptural, a physical art. I was interested in how she seemed to do that. It may have helped that she was multi-lingual. English was not her primary language. So she had a kind of triangulation on it, making the passion into something concrete. Her persona of someone who experienced a loss of place and a loss of culture I thought was beautifully expressed and something I thought I could identify with.

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Poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (photo by Ann Hutchins) The Lindsey Literary Series and the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center are pleased to announce the upcoming appearance of award-winning poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge as part of the 2000 Literary Series at Southwest Texas State University. Born in Beijing, China and raised in Massachusetts, Ms. Berssenbrugge is the the author of The Heat Bird and Random Possession (both recipients of American Book Awards), Empathy (PEN West Award), Sphericity Endocrinology (in collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, winner of the Asian American Literary Award for 1997) and Four Year Old Girl (Winner of the 1999 Western States Book Award). She currently resides in New Mexico. Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Links Kelsey St. Press, Four Year Old Girl Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge / Endocrinology Return to TKL Main Page

10. Summits Move With The Tide By Mei Bersenbrugge. - BERSSENBRUGGE, MEI-MEI. Summits move with the tide by Mei Bersenbrugge.; berssenbrugge, meimei.. Offered by William Nina Matheson Books, Inc. (ABAA) http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/mathes/20412.shtml

ANTI Q BOOK Search Antiqbook Ask a question or Order this book Browse our books ... Book dealer info BERSSENBRUGGE, MEI-MEI. Summits move with the tide by Mei Bersenbrugge. Greenfield Center, N.Y., The Greenfield Review Press [c1974].. Ink name on the front endpaper, corners bumped, otherwise very good in red printed wrappers. First edition. In this early title Bersenbrugge uses the form of name Mei. Introduction by Michael S. Harpe r with a poem "China ghost" by Harper. Winner of American Book Awards. Recent recipient of the Asian-American Writers Workshop award. US$ 75.00 Offered by: - Book number: 20412 See more books from our catalog: Asian-American Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook. They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. 7 million books at your fingertips! Search all books at Antiqbook

11. Station Hill Reviews -- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Charles Bernstein, In meimei berssenbrugge s Empathy, the human hovers like a mood I ve known and loved mei-mei berssenbrugge s poetry for years. http://www.stationhill.org/reviews_berssenbrugge.html

Reviews Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Empathy Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Rosmarie Waldrop A dialogue of an extremely fine-tuned intelligence with the "world." We start out dazzled by the sheer beauty of the perceptions, the subtle music, the surprising shifts into complex inference and meditation. We end up "flattened against our seats" gasping for breath as the poem takes off into unsuspected altitudes-or depths. Empathy is not just a fine book. It is an event. An important event. Barbara Guest Empathy with its perilous line leads into unruled space of porcelain and the mystery tusk. The narrative structure suspended, a stilt upon the poem, wears the sheen of thoughtful surfaces and the rouge of elemental surprise. Charles Bernstein In Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy , "the human hovers like a mood" that refuses definition. In the flickering mirrors of distant landscapes, perception melts, like ice detailed equivocations, and the scenes and lights they evoke, have become" spiritual exercises in physical form." "Even the slightest movement" shimmers. Jackson Mac Low Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetry moves from "inner" phenomena to ones coming from the "external" world and back again with breathtaking evenness. Calmly and convincingly she leads our attention from confidence of passion or attention itself to ice crystals, gulls, fireworks, or apple trees and to very specific qualities of perception, especially vision-most notably, those associated with the properties of light-fogginess, brightness, colors (what a poet of light she is!) in poetry that always speaks equally about "the world" and "herself." She is neither" objectivist" nor subjectivist" but a poet of the whole consciousness. A virtuoso of the long line, hers unlike those of most other poets are startlingly non-rhapsodic, although they are more truly emotional than those of most rhapsodists. I've known and loved Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetry for years. It gets better all the time.

12. Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; The Heat Bird meimei berssenbrugge was bom in Beijing, China, and now lives in New York City with her husband, the artist Richard Tuttle, and their daughter. http://www.burningdeck.com/catalog/berssenbrugge.html

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13. Lannan Foundation - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge With Arthur Sze, April 1, 1999 meimei berssenbrugge is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Fish Souls, Summits Move with the Tide, Random Possessions, Sphericity, http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/mei-mei-berssenbrugge-with-arthur-sze-april-1-

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15. I Love Artists By Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge: R A I N T A X I O N L I N E Summer 2006 For four decades, meimei berssenbrugge has been writing poems that seek to make the process of perception perceptible. “She is neither objectivist nor http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006summer/berssenbrugge.shtml

Home About Contact Print Edition ... Printer-friendly version This is a printer-friendly version of this article. Click here to return to Rain Taxi I Love Artists New and Selected Poems Mei-mei Berssenbrugge University of California Press ($19.95) by Ben Lerner If one outlines the shape of an apple with a continuous line one makes an object of the shape, whereas the contour is rather the ideal limit toward which the sides of the apple recede in depth. Not to indicate any shape would be to deprive the objects of their identity. Cezanne refused to dissolve the object into atmospheric effects (Impressionism) or to assimilate the phenomenal world to ideal forms (Renaissance naturalism) because neither technique could depict the emergence By making outline a felt effect of coloration, Cezanne depicts the apple taking form. For four decades As restless matrices in blue sage dissolved a horntoad ran under a bush. I insisted it was a baby bird. Then a baby bird and a horntoad ran out. Now, on a hill I never noticed at an altered angle. Some small shift in refraction has set the whole plain trembling and hostile insisted Empathy You would know everything you see in the first place, but the terms of your recognition grow

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Books received and noted Erratically, eclectically compiled by Ann Vickery . Apologies for any omissions. Please notify HOW2 so we can update. Bergvall, Caroline. Fig (Goan Atom 2). Salt 2005. Bergvall, Caroline. 8 Figs . Equipage. Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems . U of California P, 2006. Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei and Kiki Smith. Concordance. Kelsey Street Press, 2006. Boully, Jenny. [one love affair] . Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006. Brady, Andrea. Embrace . Object Permanence. Brossard, Nicole. Fluid Arguments . Ed. Susan Rudy. Trans. Anne-Marie Wheeler. Mercury Press, 2005. Brossard, Nicole. Museum of Bone and Water Brown, Pam. My Lightweight Intentions . Never-Never Books, 2006. Brown, Pam. Peel Me A Zibibbo . Never-Never Books, 2006. Butling, Pauline and Susan Rudy. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2005. Butling, Pauline and Susan Rudy. Poets Talk . U of Alberta P, 2005. Clarke, Cheryl. After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement . Rutgers UP, 2005. Cole, Norma. Scout . Krupskaya, 2005. Crosbie, Lynn. LIAR . House of Anansi P, 2006.

17. Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge An internet bibliography for meimei berssenbrugge, from LiteraryHistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Berssenbrugge.htm

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (1947 - ) A selective bibliography of open access articles on Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages main page 20th century poetry authors, alphabetical ... language poetry General Articles Adams, Megan. "Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and the Uses Of Scientific Language," in HOW(ever), Vol 1, No. 3 (February 1984) (removed from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts0284.html) Alexander, Charles. A review of Endocrinology (Kelsey St. Press), in Rain Taxi, Spring 1998 Altieri, Charles. "Intimacy and Experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy Edgerton, Michael Tod. A review of Nest, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (Kelsey St. Press, 2003). Reviewed in Electronic Poetry Review #6 Hinton, Laura. Three Conversations with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Jacket Magazine, 27 (April 2005) Uba, George. "Chinese American Poetry: An Anthology." MELUS, Fall, 1993 Xiaojing, Zhou.

18. YouTube - Lunch Poems: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Born in Beijing, China, but raised in Massachusetts, meimei berssenbrugge molds language with seemingly effortless beauty and grace that invites the reader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmfG872k4iA

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20. BOMB Magazine: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge By Michèle Gerber Klein My first experience of meimei berssenbrugge’s writing was hearing her read at an event I hosted for the New York City Opera called “The Color of Sound A http://www.bombsite.com/issues/96/articles/2835

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