Edwin Torres

Performance Poetry In The Age Of Language.

November 19, 2010

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Edwin Torres has collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that intermingle poetry with improvisation, sound- elements and visual theater. His books include, "I Hear Things People Haven't Really Said", "Fractured Humorous" (Subpress), "The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language" (Atelos Books), and "In The Function Of External Circumstances" (Nightboat Books).

About his recent book, "Yes Thing No Thing" (Roof Books), Alice Notley says, "Torres insists on using all the languages he knows, English and Spanish sure, but also the language of thought -- what mind does -- the language of a slow landscape pulling you into its design, a psychophysical world where you are, truly, in the pages."

He's received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art, The Poets Fund and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has taught many workshops and has been widely published, his CD "Holy Kid," (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of The Whitney Museum's exhibition, The American Century Pt. II. His current invention, NORICUA, is a noh- boricua inspired non-movement which has had its non-ideologies performed in the Bronx, Berlin and Loisaida. He is co-editor of the poetry journal/DVD "Rattapallax" and currently lives in upstate New York.