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Tom Mandel (poet)

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Tom Mandel in 2013. Photo by Oskar Poeller Mandel. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Thomas Poeller Mandel (born September 12, 1942) is a contemporary American poet whose work is often associated with the Language poets.

Life[]

Mandel was born Thomas Oskar Poeller in Chicago, Illinois, to Rose Kassner and Thaddeus Poeller, Austrian Jews who had just escaped Europe, escaping from Vienna and then from Vichy France. Thaddeus Poeller had been imprisoned in the French concentration camp Le Vernet,[1] and died in America in 1946 of a liver disease he contracted in the camp. Rose Poeller then married Paul Mandel, who adopted Tom and gave him his name.

Mandel attended school in Chicago, including the University of Chicago, where he studied with philosophers Richard McKeon and Hannah Arendt, novelist Saul Bellow, classicist and translator David Grene, and art critic Harold Rosenberg, among others. A marriage in Chicago produced 2 daughters, Jessica and Sarah. He later married to the writer Beth Joselow; the couple lives in Lewes, Delaware.

After sojourns in New York City and Paris, Mandel moved to San Francisco and became involved with the new poetry that was arising there, later known as the Language School. He co-curated a reading series with Ron Silliman at the Grand Piano, a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, continuing a series originally founded by Barrett Watten. In 1978-79, he was Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.

Publications[]

  • EncY. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1978.
  • Erat. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1981.
  • Ready to Go: Poems, 1972-1977. Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1982.
  • Central Europe. Oakland, CA: Coincidences Press, 1985.
  • Some Appearances. Oakland, CA: Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1987.
  • Four Strange Books. San Francisco: Gaz, 1990.
  • Realism. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1991.
  • Letters of the Law. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994.
  • Prospect of Release. Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 1996.
  • Absence Sensorium: A poem (with Daniel Davidson). Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1997.
  • Ancestral Cave. Gran Canaria: Zasterle Press, 1997.
  • To the Cognoscenti. Berkeley, CA: Atelos, 2007.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]

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References[]

  1. ↑ Fellow prisoner Arthur Koestler described Camp Vernet in The Invisible Writing and in his novel Scum of the Earth.
  2. ↑ Search results = au:Tom Mandel, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 30, 2014.

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