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OVERVIEW

After studies with Rene Char , Sobin developed a poetic style that relies heavily on Assonance and Consonance , as well as other methods of the sonic organization of speech. He published many books, including fiction, essays, and translations (including a translation of Henri Michaux 's ''Ideograms in China'', a prose poem about Chinese Orthography ).

Among his works of fiction are the novels ''The Fly Truffler'' (about the art of Truffle -hunting in Southern France), and ''In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star'', which is a chronicle of a brief period of Greta Garbo 's early acting career.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


Poetry

  • ''The Earth As Air'' (New Directions, NY, 1984. 103pp, paperbound)

  • ''Miniatures'' (Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 1986: 200 copies, privately distributed)

  • ''Voyaging Portraits'' (New Directions, NY, 1988. 121pp, pb)

  • ''Breath's Burials'' (New Directions, NY, 1995. 101pp, pb)

  • ''By the Bias of Sound: Selected Poems 1974-1994'' (Talisman House, Jersey City, NJ, 1995. 169pp, pb)

  • ''Towards the Blanched Alphabets'' (Talisman House, 1998. 123pp, h/c & pb)

  • ''Articles of Light & Elation'' (Cadmus, 1998. 50pp)

  • ''In the Name of the Neither'' (Talisman House, 2002. 57pp, pb)

  • ''The Places as Preludes'' (Talisman House, 2005, 76pp, pb)

    • Prose: fiction & essays

  • ''Venus Blue'' (Bloomsbury, London, 1991, out of print) - novel

  • ''Dark Mirrors'' (Bloomsbury, 1992, out of print) - novel

  • ''The Fly-Truffler'' (Norton, New York, 1999) - novel

  • ''Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc'' (University of California Press, 1999. 247pp, pb) - essays

  • ''In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star'' (Norton, NY, 2002) - novel

  • (translator) ''Ideograms in China'' by Henri Michaux; (New Directions, NY, 2002. 64pp, pb)



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