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Joshua Clover Associate Professor of English

M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1991
B.A. Boston University, 1987

Joshua Clover specializes in poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on contemporary and 20th Century American poetry. He has contributed poetry and critical writing to over 20 anthologies; he is a senior writer for the Village Voice, covering music, film, literature, and politics, as well as curating their poetry publications.

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Publication Spotlight

the totality for kids by Joshua Clover "This is major work, haunted by a sense of totality always present in the formal intricacy and in the roles cities and architecture play. I think of these poems as crossing the cool, allusive intricacy of Quentin Tarantino with the abstract, intense social passion of Walter Benjamin." Charles Altieri, author of The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry:Modernism and After

Publications

• The Totality for Kids (The University of California Press 2006) http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10497.html
• The Matrix (British Film Institute 2004)
• Their Ambiguity (Quemadura 2003)
• Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University 1997)

Honors

• Best American Poetry, 2003, 2001, 1997
• Robert D. Richardson Award for Non-Fiction Writing, 1999
• Pushcart Prize for Poetry, 1997, 1998
• Walt Whitman Award for First Book of Poetry, Academy of American Poets, 1996
• National Endowment for the Arts individual fellowship, 1994
• Michener/Engle Fellowship in Poetry, 1993-1994
• Resident Fellow in Poetry, Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, 1992-1993
• University Prize For Excellence in Teaching, 1991

Email: jclover@ucdavis.edu