Allyssa Wolf
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Allyssa Wolf (born 1971) is an American poet. Her first book of poems Vaudeville was published in 2006 under the imprint Seismicity Editions, by the Otis College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of a 2006 Gertrude Stein Award and was 1st Runner-Up for the Robin Blaser Award in 2015. Her poetry was part of the Bunker Poetico installation and anthology for the 49th Venice Bienalle.{{Cite web|url=http://www.milanocosa.it/oldsite/Pagine/Voci/Libri/Poesia%20in%20Azione/index.htm|title=AA.VV. - Poesia in azione}} Her second tract, Loquela, was published in 2011 by Insert Blanc Press. Her third book of poetry, The Book of Coming and Going Forth by Day was pulled from circulation by the author, as she refused to write or publish poetry for three years for political reasons, only then publishing one poem in a magazine out of Singapore, and submitting 3 to the Canadian Robin Blaser Award. She has said she is working on a novel called {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150527145453/http://www.thevolta.org/twstbs-bio-awolf.html 'The Murder of the Real]}} and has reportedly resumed writing poetry.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}
Life
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Wolf left home at seventeen and moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She has since lived in Los Angeles, and, currently, San Francisco.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}
Career
Jacket magazine said of Vaudeville: "Read this book in a theatre or in the street propped on a fire hydrant. Read it between classes, in the library, on a train; read it at a poetry reading, read it in jail — anywhere. It is that book which begs to be myth. I have not seen pages nor have I heard poems. No. Reading this book I have allowed myself the gift of beauty redivivus!"{{cite web|url=http://jacketmagazine.com/30/leon-wolf.html|title=Jacket 30 - July 2006 - Jon Leon reviews "Vaudeville", by Allyssa Wolf|website=jacketmagazine.com}}
Recently, poet and critic Philip Jenks, reassessed the importance of Vaudeville, at The Poetry Foundation,{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/04/of-allyssa-wolfs-vaudeville-or-my-altamont-blues-part-i|title=Of Allyssa Wolf's Vaudeville or My Altamont Blues, part I by Philip Jenks|first=Poetry|last=Foundation|date=22 December 2018|website=Poetry Foundation}} saying, "It’s been ten years since Allyssa Wolf’s Vaudeville was published. It says so on the page, but I’m having trouble believing. Dare to suggest a timeless text was written not in some other era, not by some dead white man, not. I cannot prove anything (the analytics versus “Being, but an Ear” (Dickinson 340)), oppose the best of, but Wolf's is verse in its purest form. Speaks to and with. Ghosts, power relations, inhabitations, gender powers, the animals, comedic horrors, and language twisting old English into the presences, or wars, just: “twisting the night away” (Wolf 37). It's a “real show” with all the horror and comity of being, shredded thus", and, "Generativity, producing, creating, these makings of words and deeds to thieve from Arendt—they are fully capable of producing horrors if one seeks to create only within the loneliness of those “grave and grainy” rooms of modernity or postmodernity or what have you. Unless we make in concert with one another, without the in-between, world become monster. A) The Holocaust never ended and B) It was/is born of a continual alienation. And it is these truths that Allyssa Wolf's beckons the reader to perhaps examine. It is night everywhere... A sort of “night of the world” as Hegel wrote.."{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/04/on-allyssa-wolfs-vaudeville-or-my-altamont-blues-ii|title=On Allyssa Wolf's Vaudeville or My Altamont Blues, II by Philip Jenks|first=Poetry|last=Foundation|date=22 December 2018|website=Poetry Foundation}}
Awards
The first poem of Vaudeville was chosen for a PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing by Douglas Messerli. "Allyssa Wolf...╬Winner of the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English 2005-2006 for her poem, "First Doll".{{cite web|url=http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2010/06/allyssa-wolf.html|title=The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: Allyssa Wolf|last=Greenintegerblog|date=17 June 2010|publisher=}}
Allyssa Wolf won First Runner-up for the Capilano's Review's Fourth Annual Robin Blaser Award (2015), chosen by Daphne Marlatt.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/4th-blaser-poetry-award-winners/|title=4th Annual Blaser Poetry Award Winners - The Capilano Review|website=www.thecapilanoreview.ca}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thecapilanoreview.ca/|title=The Capilano Review|website=www.thecapilanoreview.ca}}
Works
- {{cite book|title=Vaudeville|date=12 May 2015|publisher=Otis Books/Seismicity Editions|isbn=978-0-9755924-4-1}}
- {{cite book|title=Loquela|url=http://www.insertblancpress.net/products/parrot-5-loquela-by-allyssa-wolf|accessdate=12 May 2015|date=12 May 2015|publisher=Insert Press|oclc=667638144}}
Anthologies
- {{cite book|title=PIP Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry in English|date=12 May 2015|publisher=Green Integer|isbn=978-1-933382-69-2}}
- {{cite book|title=Poesia in Azione: Anthology of the Bunker Poetico project for the 49th Venice Bienalle|url=http://www.milanocosa.it/oldsite/Pagine/Voci/Libri/Poesia%20in%20Azione/index.htm|accessdate=12 May 2015|date=12 May 2015|publisher=Milanocosa}}
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:Poets from California
Category:21st-century American women writers