Ted Pelton


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Ted Pelton

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born
January 31, 1962

gender
male

influences
Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, oulipo, Raymond Chandler, TS Eliot, Robert Creeley, Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Emily Dickinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Gustave Flaubert, J.M. Coetzee, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick, Walter Abish, John Hawkes, Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, Maxine Hong Kingston, Charles Bernstein, Ben Marcus, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Fellini, Truffaut, & a whole bunch of filmmakers, artists, musicians, hey who asked this question...?





books by Ted Pelton

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avg rating: 4.61 | 28 ratings | 3 distinct works
Malcolm & Jack: And Other Famo... Malcolm & Jack: And Other Famous American Criminals (Paperback)
by Ted Pelton (Goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.62 — 13 ratings — published 2006
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Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2 an... Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2 an even greater extent (Paperback)
by Ted Pelton (Goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2005
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Bhang Bhang (Paperback)
by Ted Pelton (Goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published 2007
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Ted's writing

Something New (Mystery & Thrillers)
1 chapters   —   updated 07/24/2008 08:29PM
description: an unpublished story



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October 08
I Remember Ted gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
I Remember (paperback)
by Joe Brainard
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Ted Ted said: "Brilliantly simple, and adaptable as an exercise for one's own writing or workshops at any level. Smart in its resistance to order, how it insists on remaining strange and wondrous and haphazard. A great book. I hope one day when we colonize space...more "
October 07
Beyond the Techno-Ca... Ted gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Culture (Paperback)
by Harold Jaffe
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August 25
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Malco... Ted recommended the book Malcolm & Jack: And Other Famous American Criminals to Kevin
August 17
Broken World Ted gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Broken World (Paperback)
by Joseph Lease (Goodreads author!)
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Ted Ted said: "At a time when a lot of poets are into an aesthetic that's too cool for politics, Lease is a responsible reminder of the true duties of what it means to be an artist-citizen. "
August 16
I Killed Adolf Hitle... Ted gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
I Killed Adolf Hitler (Paperback)
by Jason
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August 14
31ooysizmxl Ted added The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel to the book list Best books of 2008
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July 24
767445 Ted wrote Something New: Something New.

"Something New


After he shot John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald shot a policeman, Officer J. D. " ...more
1265507 New comment on Eugene's review of Polyverse (New American Poetry Series)
767445 Ted wrote: "I can't think of a book of poems I like, enjoy, dig more than this one. "

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76519 Ted read and liked Eugene's review of Polyverse (New American Poetry Series):

"despite all the homages and collaborations (the latter dubbed here her CoLabs) and her obvious interconnected-ness to her poetry community, Brown is a very singular, sonically super-powered poet.

the book charts the poet moving from a natural lyri...more
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July 15
Bhang Ted gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Bhang (Paperback)
by Ted Pelton (Goodreads author!)
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Ted's favorite quotes

""Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?""
Charles Olson




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