Andrei Codrescu

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Laura Cole Rosenthal

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Andrei Codrescu ({{IPA|ro|anˈdrej koˈdresku}}; born December 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio.{{Cite news |last=John J. O'Connor |date=March 20, 1995 |title=Television Review; Romanian Kerouac Is Back | work = The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/20/arts/television-review-romanian-kerouac-is-back.html |access-date=2011-01-18}} He is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar and the Ovid Prize for poetry. He was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009.

Biography

Codrescu was born in Sibiu.{{cite web|url=https://www.codrescu.com/bio\title=https://www.codrescu.com/bio|title=Andrei Codrescu: Biography|website=www.codrescu.com|access-date=December 2, 2024}} His father was an ethnic Romanian engineer; his mother was a non-practicing Jew. Their son was informed of his Jewish background at age 13.{{Cite web |title=Scriitorul Andrei Codrescu: "Vremea României la Nobel a trecut" |date=October 15, 2016 |url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/scriitorul-andrei-codrescu-vremea-romaniei-nobel-trecut-1_5800b99d5ab6550cb88dac4a/index.html |access-date=December 31, 2020 |language=ro}} Codrescu published his first poems in Romanian under the pen name Andrei Steiu. In 1965 he and his mother, a photographer and printer, were able to leave Romania after Israel paid US$2,000 (or US$10,000, according to other sources{{Cite news |last=Leydon |first=Joe |date=August 8, 1993 |title=Cover Story: Road Trip! : Andrei Codrescu is your basic droll Transylvanian poet and social commentator who was given a '68 Caddy and a mission: Find America and its soul |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-08-ca-21801-story.html |access-date=August 7, 2014}}) to the Romanian communist regime for each of them.{{Cite web |title=Diaspora in direct |url=http://www.formula-as.ro/1999/371/diaspora-in-direct-11/diaspora-in-direct-700-print |access-date=August 7, 2014 |language=ro}}{{Cite news |title=A Refugee Among Refugees |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 11, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11QUESTIONS.html?_r=0 |access-date=August 7, 2014|last1=Solomon |first1=Deborah }} After some time in Italy, they moved to the United States in 1966, and settled in Detroit, where he became a regular at John Sinclair's Artists and Writers' Workshop. A year later, he moved to New York, where he became part of the literary scene on the Lower East Side. There he met Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman, and published his first poems in English.

In 1970, his poetry book, License to Carry a Gun, won the "Big Table Poetry Award".{{Cite web |last=York |first=Carnegie Corporation of New |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/andrei-codrescu/ |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}{{Cite web |last=York |first=Carnegie Corporation of New |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/andrei-codrescu/ |access-date=2020-05-11 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}} He moved to San Francisco in 1970, and lived on the West Coast for seven years, four of those in Monte Rio, a Sonoma County town on the Russian River. He also lived in Baltimore (where he taught at Johns Hopkins University), New Orleans and Baton Rouge, publishing a book every year. During this time he wrote poetry, stories, essays and reviews for many publications, including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, and the Paris Review. He had regular columns in The Baltimore Sun, the City Paper, Architecture, Funny Times, Gambit Weekly, and Neon.

Codrescu was a regular commentator on National Public Radio's news program, All Things Considered, from 1983 until 2016.{{Cite web |title=Andrei Codrescu |website=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2100359/andrei-codrescu}} He won the 1995 Peabody Award for the film Road Scholar, an American road movie that he wrote and starred in, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.{{Cite news |last=Allene |first=Bruce |date=1983-08-12 |title=Pushcart Anthology review |work=The Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0812/081273.html |access-date=2018-01-22}} His book So Recently a World: Selected Poems, 1968-2016 was a National Book Award nominee.

In 1989, Codrescu covered the Romanian Revolution for National Public Radio and ABC News's Nightline. His renewed interest in the Romanian language and literature led to new work written in Romanian, including Miracle and Catastrophe, a book-length interview conducted by the theologian Robert Lazu, and The Forgiven Submarine, an epic poem written in collaboration with poet Ruxandra Cesereanu, which won the 2008 Radio România Cultural award. His books have been translated into Romanian by Ioana Avadani, Ioana Ieronim, Carmen Firan, Rodica Grigore, and Lăcrimioara Stoie. In 2002 Codrescu returned to Romania with a PBS Frontline World video crew to "take the temperature" of his homeland and produced the story, "My Old Haunts".{{Cite news |date=2002-10-31 |title=My Old Haunts |work=Frontline World |publisher=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/romania}} In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious international Ovidius Prize (also known as the Ovid Prize), previous winners of which include Mario Vargas Llosa, Amos Oz, and Orhan Pamuk.

In 1981, Codrescu became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is the editor and founder of the online journal Exquisite Corpse,{{Cite web |title=Exquisite Corpse - Journal of Letters and Life |url=http://corpse.org/index.php |access-date=2020-05-11 |website=corpse.org}} a journal of "books and ideas". He reigned as King of the Krewe du Vieux for the 2002 New Orleans Mardi Gras season.

Codrescu's archives and much of his personal library are now part of the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections,{{Cite web |title=LSU Libraries |url=https://lib.lsu.edu/special/ |website=lib.lsu.edu}} University of Iowa Libraries, New Orleans Historical Society, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Family

His first wife was Aurelia Munteanu.{{Cite web |last=Pricop |first=Constantin |title=Interviu cu Andrei Codrescu - "Sensul diferentei a fost cu mine de cind m-am ascut" |url=http://www.memoria.ro/marturii/domenii/diaspora/interviu_cu_andrei_codrescu_-__quote_sensul_diferentei_a_fost_cu_mine_de_cind_m-am_nascut_quote_/1153/ |access-date=August 7, 2014 |publisher=memoria.ro |language=ro}} His second wife was Alice Henderson, the mother of his two sons, Lucian Codrescu{{Cite web |title=Lucian Codrescu |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucian-codrescu-1a0774a |website=linkedin.com}} and Tristan Codrescu.{{Cite web |title=Tristan Codrescu LAc - Acupuncturist - Portland, OR |url=https://www.caredash.com/doctors/tristan-codrescu-vf7mz |website=CareDash }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} His third wife, Laura Rosenthal{{Cite web |title=Laura Rosenthal |url=https://www.godine.com/book-author/laura-rosenthal/ |website=Godine, Publisher |access-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519191819/https://www.godine.com/book-author/laura-rosenthal/ |url-status=dead }} (née Cole), was an editor at Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas and coeditor of three poetry anthologies.

Awards and honors

MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Peabody Award for Road Scholar
Ovid Prize
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for poetry; editing; radio
Big Table Poetry Award{{Cite web |year=2010 |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/andrei-codrescu |website=2010 Great Immigrants Recipient |publisher=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}
Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism
Towson State University Literature Prize
General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize
ACLU Freedom of Speech Award; Mayor's Arts Award, New Orleans
Literature Prize of the Romanian Cultural Foundation, Bucharest

Works

=Books=

{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.codrescu.com/no-time-like-now |title=No Time Like Now |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2019 |via=codrescu.com}}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.codrescu.com/submarinul-iertat-anniversary-edition |title=Submarinul Iertat by Ruxandra Cesereanu & Andrei Codrescu Anniversary Edition with Epistolary |publisher=Editura Charmades |year=2017 |location=Bucharest |via=codrescu.com}}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-art-of-forgetting-new-poems |title=The Art of Forgetting: new poems |publisher=Editura Caiete Silvane |year=2016 |via=codrescu.com}}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.codrescu.com/bibliodeath-my-archives-with-life-in-footnotes |title=Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) |publisher=ANTIBOOKCLUB |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-9838-6833-0 |via=codrescu.com}}
2013: So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems, translated into Swedish by Dan Shafran (Coffee House Press){{Cite web |title=So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems |url=https://www.codrescu.com/so-recently-rent-a-world-new-and-selected-poems |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2011: Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments (Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|978-1-4008-3801-1}}){{Cite web |title=Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments |url=https://www.codrescu.com/whatever-gets-you-through-the-night-a-story-of-sheherezade-and-the-arabian-entertainments |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2010: The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press){{Cite web |title=The Poetry Lesson |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-poetry-lesson-1 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2009: The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press){{Cite web |title=The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-posthuman-dada-guide-tzara-and-lenin-play-chess |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2008: Jealous Witness: New Poems (with a CD by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars) (Coffee House Press){{Cite web |title=Jealous Witness |url=https://www.codrescu.com/jealous-witness-1 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2007: Submarinul iertat, with Ruxandra Cesereanu, Timişoara, Romania: Editura Brumar; translated by Andrei Codrescu, as The Forgiven Submarine, Black Widow Press, 2009.{{Cite web |title=The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-forgien-submarine |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2007: Femeia neagră a unui culcuş de hoţi, Bucharest: Editura Vinea.{{Cite web |title=Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti |url=https://www.codrescu.com/femeia-neagra-a-unui-cucus-de-hoti |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2006: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City, New York and Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books.{{Cite web |title=New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City |url=https://www.codrescu.com/new-orleans-mon-amour-twenty-years-of-wririn-from-the-city |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2006: Miracol şi catastrofă: Dialogues in Cyberspace with Robert Lazu, Timişoara, Romania: Editura Hartman.
2005: Instrumentul negru. Poezii, 1965-1968, (Editura Scrisul Romanesc){{Cite web |title=Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968 |url=https://www.codrescu.com/instrumentul-negru-poezii-19651968 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2004: Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair (Dali Museum){{Cite web |title=Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair |url=https://www.codrescu.com/scandal-of-genius-how-salvador-dali-smuggled-baudelaire-into-the-science-fair |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2004: Wakefield: a novel, New York and Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books.{{Cite web |title=Wakefield: a novel |url=https://www.codrescu.com/wakefield |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2003: It Was Today: New Poems Minneapolis: Coffee House Press{{Cite web |title=It Was Today: New Poems |url=https://www.codrescu.com/it-was-today |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2002: Casanova in Bohemia, a novel New York: The Free Press{{Cite web |title=Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia |url=https://www.codrescu.com/casanova-in-bohemia |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2001: An Involuntary Genius in America’s Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, Re-issue of The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius, 1976, and In America's Shoes, 1983, with new forward and coda-essay.{{Cite web |title=An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards) |url=https://www.codrescu.com/an-involuntary-genius-in-americas-shoes-and-what-happened-afterwards |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2000: The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press. Essays.{{Cite web |title=The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-devil-never-sleeps-other-essays |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
2000: Poezii alese/Selected Poetry, bi-lingual edition, English and Romanian Bucharest: Editura Paralela 45.{{Cite web |title=Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese |url=https://www.codrescu.com/poesii-aleseselected-poetry |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1999: A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.{{Cite web |title=A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 |url=https://www.codrescu.com/a-bar-in-brooklyn-novellas-stories-19701978 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1999: Messiah, a novel. New York: Simon & Schuster.{{Cite web |title=Messiah, a novel |url=https://www.codrescu.com/messih |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1999: Hail Babylon! Looking for the American City at the End of the Millennium. New York: St. Martin's Press 1999, New York and London: Picador, 1999. Essays.{{Cite web |title=Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium |url=https://www.codrescu.com/hail-babylon-looking-for-the-american-city-at-the-end-of-the-millenium |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1999: Ay, Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey. With photographs by David Graham. New York: St. Martin's Press, New York and London: Picador. Travel/Essay.{{Cite web |title=Ay, Cuba! |url=https://www.codrescu.com/ay-cuba |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1997: The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere. New York: St. Martin's Press, New York and London: Picador.{{Cite web |title=The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-dog-with-the-chip-in-his-neck-essays-from-npr-elsewhere |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1996: Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press.{{Cite web |title=Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 |url=https://www.codrescu.com/alien-candor |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1995: The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans. New York: St. Martin's Press. New York and London: Picador, 1996. Essays.{{Cite web |title=The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-muse-is-always-halfdressed-in-new-orleans-essays |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1995: The Blood Countess. New York: Simon & Schuster. New York: Dell.{{Cite web |title=The Blood Countess, a novel |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-blood-countess-a-novel |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1995: Zombification: Essays from NPR. New York: St. Martin's Press. New York and London: Picador.{{Cite web |title=Zombification |url=https://www.codrescu.com/zombification |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1994: The Repentance of Lorraine, New York: Rhinoceros Books. Reprint with new introduction of 1976 Pocketbooks edition by Ames Claire){{Cite web |title=The Repentance of Lorraine |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-repentence-of-lorraine |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1993: Belligerence, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.{{Cite web |title=Belligerence, poems |url=https://www.codrescu.com/belligerence-poems |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1993: Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century, with photographs by David Graham. A journal of the making of the movie Road Scholar. New York: Hyperion.{{Cite web |title=Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century |url=https://www.codrescu.com/road-scholar-coast-to-coast-late-in-the-century |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1991: The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution (New York: Morrow. New York: Avon.{{Cite web |title=The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-hole-in-the-flag |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1991: Comrade Past and Mister Present, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.{{Cite web |title=Comrade Past & Mister Present |url=https://www.codrescu.com/comrade-past-mister-present |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1990: The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape. Boston: Addison-Wesley Co.1990; reissued by Ruminator Press, 2001{{Cite web |title=The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-disappearance-of-the-outside-a-manifesto-for-escape |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1988: A Craving for Swan, Columbus: Ohio State University Press.{{Cite web |title=A Craving for Swan |url=https://www.codrescu.com/a-craving-for-swan |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1987: Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.{{Cite web |title=Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories |url=https://www.codrescu.com/monsieur-teste-in-america-other-instances-of-realism-stories |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1987: Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research, Boston: Addison-Wesley.{{Cite web |title=Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research |url=https://www.codrescu.com/raised-by-puppets-only-to-be-killed-by-research |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1983: In America’s Shoes, San Francisco: City Lights.{{Cite web |title=In America's Shoes |url=https://www.codrescu.com/in-americas-shoes |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1983: Selected Poems 1970-1980, New York: Sun Books.{{Cite web |title=Selected Poems 1970-1980 |url=https://www.codrescu.com/selected-poems-19701980 |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1982: Necrocorrida. San Francisco: Panjandrum Books.{{Cite web |title=Necrocorrida |url=https://www.codrescu.com/necrocorrida |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1979: The Lady Painter, Boston: Four Zoas Press.{{Cite web |title=The Lady Painter |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-lady-painter |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1978: For the Love of a Coat, Boston: Four Zoas Press.{{Cite web |title=For the Love of a Coat |url=https://www.codrescu.com/for-the-love-of-a-coat |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1975: The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius. New York: George Braziller.{{Cite web |title=The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-life-u-times-of-an-involuntary-genius |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1974: The Marriage of Insult & Injury. Woodstock: Cymric Press.{{Cite web |title=The Marriage of Insult and Injury |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-marriage-of-insult-and-injury |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1973: The History of the Growth of Heaven. New York: George Braziller.{{Cite web |title=The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN |url=https://www.codrescu.com/the-history-of-the-growth-of-heaven |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1973: A Serious Morning. Santa Barbara: Capra Press.{{Cite web |title=A Serious Morning |url=https://www.codrescu.com/a-serious-morning |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
1971: Why I Can’t Talk on the Telephone, San Francisco: kingdom kum press.{{Cite web |title=Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone |url=https://www.codrescu.com/why-i-cant-talk-on-the-telephone |access-date=2020-05-08 |website=Andrei Codrescu}}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.codrescu.com/license-to-carry-a-gun |title='License to Carry a Gun' {{!}} Big Table Poetry Award. Chicago: Big Table/Follet. reprinted |publisher=Carnegie-Mellon University Press |year=1970 |location=Pittsburgh |via=codrescu.com}}

=Editor/founder=

1983-1997 {{Cite book |url=http://corpse.org/index.php |title=Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628234624/http://corpse.org/index.php|archive-date=June 28, 2012}}
1997-2011 {{URL|http://corpse.org/index.php|corpse.org}}, the online version

=Anthologies edited=

{{Cite book |last=Hearn |first=Lafcadio |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691167756/japanese-tales-of-lafcadio-hearn |title=Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn |year=2019 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691167756 |access-date=27 June 2020}}
{{Cite book |title=Thus Spake the Corpse : An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 |publisher=Black Sparrow Press |year=1999 |isbn=1574231421 |editor-last=Codrescu |editor-first=Andrei |volume=2 |location=Santa Barbara |editor-last2=Rosenthal |editor-first2=Laura}}
{{Cite book |title=Thus Spake the Corpse : An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 |publisher=Black Sparrow Press |year=1999 |isbn=1574231014 |editor-last=Codrescu |editor-first=Andrei |volume=1 |location=Santa Barbara |editor-last2=Rosenthal |editor-first2=Laura}}
{{Cite book |title=American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century |publisher=4 Walls/8 Windows Press |year=1996 |editor-last=Codrescu |editor-first=Andrei |location=New York |editor-last2=Rosenthal |editor-first2=Laura}}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |url=https://www.carnevalemanfredonia.it/literature/poetry/127590-american-poetry-since-1970-up-late-andrei-codrescu-download-epub.html |title=American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late |date=1988 |publisher=4 Walls/8 Windows Press |location=New York |access-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813192504/https://www.carnevalemanfredonia.it/literature/poetry/127590-american-poetry-since-1970-up-late-andrei-codrescu-download-epub.html |url-status=dead }}
{{Cite book |last=Codrescu |first=Andrei |title=The Stiffest of the Corpse: an Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1983-1990 |date=August 1989 |publisher=City Lights Books |isbn=0872862135 |location=San Francisco}}

=As translator=

{{Cite book |url=https://www.codrescu.com/in-praise-of-sleep |title=In Praise of Sleep: Selected Poems of Lucian Blaga |date=2019 |publisher=Commonwealth Books, Black Widow |isbn=978-0872862135 |via=codrescu.com}}
{{Cite book |url=https://www.codrescu.com/at-the-court-of-yearning-poems-by-lucian-blaga |title=At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga |date=1989 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |isbn=0872862135 |location=Columbus |via=codrescu.com}}

Presence in English Language Anthologies

{{Cite book |title=Born in Utopia (An Anthology of Romanian Modern and Contemporary Poetry) |publisher=Talisman House Publishers |year=2006 |isbn=978-1584980506 |editor1=Carmen Firan |editor2=Paul Doru Mugur}}
{{Cite book |title=Testament - Anthology of Romanian Verse - American Edition |publisher=Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-9953502-0-5 |editor=Daniel Ioniță|editor-link=Daniel Ioniță (poet)}}
{{Cite book |title=Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry - 400 de ani de poezie românească |publisher=Editura Minerva |year=2019 |isbn=978-973-21-1070-6 |editor=Daniel Ioniță}}
{{Cite book |title=Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present |publisher=Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing |year=2020 |isbn=978-0-9953502-8-1 |editor=Daniel Ioniță}}

Controversial comments

Codrescu was a commentator for NPR,{{Cite web |year=2010 |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100359 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026205057/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100359 |archive-date=2010-10-26 |access-date=2010-10-22 |publisher=NPR}} and on the December 19, 1995, broadcast of All Things Considered, Codrescu reported that some Christians believe in a "rapture" and four million believers will ascend to Heaven immediately. He continued, "The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place."{{Cite news |date=1995-12-23 |title=NPR APOLOGIZES ON AIR |newspaper=Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/12/23/npr-apologizes-on-air/813808d4-73ff-4773-9cb3-13219aaa44ab/}}

NPR subsequently apologized for the anti-Christianity of Codrescu's comments, saying, "Those remarks offended listeners and crossed a line of taste and tolerance that we should have defended with greater vigilance."{{Cite news |title=NPR replies to 40,000 complaints about Codrescu broadcast |url=http://www.current.org/people/peop601.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2011-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320101534/http://www.current.org/people/peop601.html |archive-date=2012-03-20}}

References

External links

[https://www.codrescu.com/ Andrei Codrescu's webpage]
[http://www.corpse.org Exquisite Corpse], Codrescu's online literary magazine
[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100359 "Andrei Codrescu"], NPR Biography
[http://www.pdxjustice.org/node/59 Video: Andrei Codrescu - "The Posthuman DADA Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531230046/http://www.pdxjustice.org/node/59 |date=May 31, 2017 }}, presentation in Portland, Oregon, on April 30, 2009, from the recent book tour
[http://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/antisemitism-podcast/andrei-codrescu Voices on Antisemitism - Interview with Andrei Codrescu] from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Andrei Codrescu is a regular contributor to [http://www.mineshaftmagazine.com/Mineshaft magazine]