Stephen Ratcliffe's Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet ) is out from Counterpath Press.   REAL , 474 pages written in 474 consecutive days, was published by Avenue B in 2007.   CLOUD / RIDGE (also 474 pages) and HUMAN / NATURE (1,000 pages), appear in ubu editions “Publishing the Unpublishable” series ( www.ubu.com ).  The complete (14 hour) reading/performance of HUMAN / NATURE at UC Davis is up at PennSound ( http://writing.upenn.edu/ pennsound/x/Ratcliffe.html).  Previous books include Portraits & Repetition_ (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/ (system) (Green Integer, 2002).  He lives in Bolinas and teaches at Mills College in Oakland

Born in 1941 in Minneapolis, MN and athlete of the year at Roosevelt High School, Robert Grenier attended Harvard College and the Iowa Writers Workshop.  He has taught modern literature and creative writing at Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia and Mills.   Sentences , a 1978 box of 500 5x8 cards has recently been added to the Heller Rare Book Collection at Mills.  He is co-editor of The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner (Stanford, 2010).  An archive of Grenier's work over the years is housed in Stanford University's Green Library; other materials can be found at http://epc.buffalo.edu/ authors/grenier/ .  

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