Andrew Joron

Andrew Joron is an American poet.

Life
Joron is a writer of experimental poetry. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov. Joron currently lives in Berkeley, California.

During the 1990s, Andrew Joron formed a close friendship with the poet and novelist Gustaf Sobin. Sobin, who died in 2005, designated Joron as his literary co-executor, along with American poet Andrew Zawacki.

Joron is the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays which was published by Stanford University Press in 1998. Joron is also the translator of The Perpetual Motion Machine by the German fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011).

Since 2008 he has played theremin in the improv ambient/drone quartet Cloud Shepherd. Joron has written an essay, "The Theremin in My Life," on the relation between his literary and musical activities.

Recognition
Joron has won the Rhysling Award three times: for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006.

Publications

 * Force Fields. Borgo Press, 1987.
 * Velocities Set (editor). Ocean View Books, 1988.
 * Science Fiction. Pantograph Press, 1992.
 * Terminal Velocities (editor). Pantograph Press, 1993.
 * Invisible Machines with Robert Frazier and Thomas Wiloch. Jazz Police Books, 1997.
 * The Removes. Hard Press, 1999.
 * The emergency of poetry. Velocities, 2002.
 * Fathom. Black Square Editions, 2003.
 * Neo-surrealism: Or, The Sun At Night. Black Square Editions, 2004.
 * The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose. Counterpath Press, 2007.
 * The Sound Mirror. Flood Editions, 2008.
 * Force Fields with Brian Lucas. Hooke Press, 2010. (This is a different book than Joron's 1987 book of the same title.)
 * Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems. City Lights Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87286-530-3