Fleuve Flaneur

by Anne Waldman

Poetry. Photographs by David Kite. This elegant oversized book has been published in a limited edition of 250, 26 of which are lettered and signed by the authors and photographer. A collaboration of words and photographs (documenting a dance perfomance by Kim Olson/Sweet Edge), FLEUVE FLANEUR is both lyrically and visually stunning, a dance of image and typography. A dedication for Kenward Elmslie's 75th birthday, Anne Waldman and Mary Kite have created a piece that is worthy of celebration.

20 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Anne Waldman was part of the late Sixties poetry scene in the East Village. She ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work.

She became a Buddhist, worshipping with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who would also become Allen Ginsberg's guru. She and Ginsberg worked together to create a poetry school, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Anne Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger is particularly impressive (did you get all that?).

She was featured in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'