Albert Flynn DeSilver

		Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, teacher, visual artist and publisher living in Woodacre, California. He received a BFA in photography from the University of Colorado, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the author, most recently of Letters to Early Street, Spring 2007 from La Alameda Press in New Mexico, and Walking Tooth & Cloud, January 2007 from French Connection Press in Paris. He has published more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide including Zyzzyva, New American Writing, Jacket (Austrailia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh’s Ear (France), Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and many others. He is also the editor and publisher of The Owl Press, publishing innovative poetry and poetic collaboration. He teaches as a California Poet in the Schools in San Francisco and Marin.

Letters to Early Street Spring 2007 La Alameda Press New Mexico		“LETTERS TO EARLY STREET is a beautiful collection, lyrical and inventive, in which shapes are to be seen “noodling along a rather lengthy road of torque & vapor.” The world is astonishingly present yet there are “multiple enigmas,” those mysteries and vacancies where beauty clings, as it must, to its cave. Creating a “community nerve garden”, the poetry of Albert Flynn DeSilver is of a high order of attention, like sitting at the rear window of a moving train.” —Paul Hoover “From sea to shining sea, LETTERS TO EARLY STREET illuminates the hidden ecstacies of the quotidian. Albert Flynn DeSilver is a weaver of a lovely shimmering lyric. His is a voice fresh with joy, delightful in its innocence” —Lisa Jarnot “How to shed a dilemma: Be eager/bright and good-hearted/nervous as Albert Flynn DeSilver’s poems, hunkering down (as they are often seen to do) along a bush-strewn hillside to open a can of chili before the fog returns. “A number that charts vacancy’s bucolic spread” —and there’s his music, spoonfuls of it, “eye to air & back,” an alto lift.” —Bill Berkson

Walking Tooth & Cloud January 2007 French Connection Press Paris		“Prose poems you won’t want to miss! The pronoun I in its word-tissue forest . . . “a book of elastic steel, an opposable piano.” Meet tea leaf man, iced-over man, and others, as the inside-outside window collapses. “I am wind in the paper.” Beautiful. “I alone as mirror to the world.”” —Alice Notley “Albert Flynn DeSilver’s poems are filled with a sunny, kinetic plenitude.” —Richard Silberg (Poetry Flash) Albert Flynn DeSilver’s prosoid utterances ruffle the edges of the dreamscape. A peculiar(ly) contemporary “western” milieu creeps into view, declares itself, then recedes into the page’s quiet. It’s a little as if Robert Walser’s microshriften were being secretly reconstituted in American English by a young Californian night laborer, seated at desk, humming away contentedly to himself. —Steve Dickison (The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University) “The hands of a madman reach out of these pages into your skull and reshape and reshape your brain like wax after lighting its wick.” —Ian Ayres (Van Gogh’s Ear)

Biography | Books, Poems & Published Works | Photos & Visual Art | Teaching & Workshops

© 2006 Albert Flynn DeSilver. All rights reserved.