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Steve Dalachinsky

En recuerdo a nuestro amigo y colega...

In memory of our friend and colleague...

(September 26,1946 / September 16, 2019)

(Photo by Fernando García Delgado, 05/2019)

"Collage is an extension yet variation in opposition

yet direct correlation to poetry." Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky, Poet/collagist (September 26, 1946 - September 16, 2019) was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and managed to survive lots of little wars. His extensive work between poetry and jazz work has appeared in countless journals the world over including Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, The Brooklyn Review, and many more.

He has been included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His most recent poetry books include Reaching into the Unknown (2009), Insomnia Poems (2009), Invasion of the Animal People (2010), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (2011/12, Trust Fund Babies (2012), The Veiled Doorway and St. Lucie (2012), Long Play E.P. (2012), and A Superintendent’s Eyes (2013).

His audio CD compilations include Incomplete Direction (1999), The Bill Has Been Paid (2013) and The Fallout of Dreams (2013).

His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group, the Snobs (Bambalam 2015).

His most recent books include Where Night and Day Become One: The French Poems / A Selection 1983-2017 (2018 Great weather for MEDIA), Fools Gold (2014 Feral Press), Flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015) and The Invisible Ray (Overpass Press 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.

His recognitions include the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award and has also been recently nominated for a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, Steve Dalachinsky was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.