Robert Glück

b. 1947, United States

Robert Glück has exhibited his ceramics infrequently, most recently at the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference in 2022. He is the author of two story collections, Elements and Denny Smith, and three novels, Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe, and About Ed, which will be published by NYRB in 2023. His collected essays, Communal Nude, was published by Semiotex(e) in 2016. His books of poetry include Reader, La Fontaine with Bruce Boone, In Commemoration of the Visit with Kathleen Fraser, and I, Boombox, published by Roof Books in 2023. In the late 70’s, Glück and Bruce Boone founded New Narrative, a literary movement of self-reflexive storytelling that combines essay, lyric, and autobiography in one work. Glück served as director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. He was co-director of Small Press Traffic Literary Center and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives “high on a hill” in San Francisco.

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