Noah Eli Gordon (1975 – July 10, 2022) was an American poet, editor, and publisher.
Overview Gordon was the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions,LETTER MACHINE EDITIONS. lettermachine. Retrieved on 2013-08-29. an editor for The Volta,. The Volta.org Retrieved on 2013-08-29. and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writingNoah Eli Gordon Creative Writing. English.colorado.edu (2012-10-08). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directed Subito Press.. Subito Press (2011-07-23). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. He ran Braincase Press,Braincase Press: Catalog. Braincasepress3.blogspot.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-29. and was a founding editor of the little magazine Baffling Combustions.Baffling Combustions Issues 1, 2 and 3 by Elizabeth Willis et al Eileen Myles from Derringer Books, Member A.B.A.A. – Used Book – Paperback – First Edition. Abaa.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-29.
His books included Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? (Solid Objects, 2018),The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015),The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013),. Ahsahta Press (2013-05-21). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. The Source (Futurepoem Books, 2011),Futurepoem books – The Source. Futurepoem.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-29. Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), and Inbox (BlazeVOX Books, 2006).Gordon, Noah Eli (2007) Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins, . His essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, criticism, and poetry appear widely, including journals such as Bookforum, Seneca Review, Boston Review, Fence, Hambone,Writing. Noah Eli Gordon. Retrieved on 2013-08-29. and in the anthologies Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013),Hoover, Paul (ed.) (2013) Contents. Postmodern American Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, . A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press, 2011),Anthologies. Noah Eli Gordon (2004-12-20). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2011), Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press, 2010), and Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). He was interviewed in the spring of 2007 by Rain Taxi, for whom he wrote a chapbook review column at the time.
Critic Michael Robbins, in his award-winning essayAugust 13, 2013 – 2013 Prizes for Contributors to Poetry Announced. The Poetry Foundation (2013-08-13). Retrieved on 2013-08-29. "Ripostes," published by Poetry Magazine, referred to Gordon's work as "simply dead — nonresponsive, flatlined, toe-tagged, rotting,"Deutsch, Abigail. (2013-07-01) Ripostes by Michael Robbins. Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-29. while critic Stephanie Burt, writing for The Nation, noted how Gordon's poetry, which she called "delightful," is "reacting to big modern systems, above all to the system called capitalism, whose results and failures seem inescapable."Anxious and Paralyzed: On Spahr, Gordon, Moschovakis and Ossip. The Nation (2012-01-03). Retrieved on 2013-08-29.
Personal Gordon was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Gordon died in July 2022, aged 47. At the end of his life he lived in Denver.
Awards San Francisco State Poetry Center 2007 Book Award for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2009 National Poetry Series Open Competition winner (selection by John Ashbery) for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2006 Green Rose Prize for A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow, 2006 Greg Gummer Poetry Award, selected by Robert Creeley, 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for The Area of Sound Called the Subtone, 2004 Glosband Fellowship, selected by David Shapiro, 2004 Jarrell Poetry Prize, selected by Carolyn Forché, 2000
References
External links Gagnon on Gordon Colorado Poets Center site includes biographical material and poems Faculty page at CU-Boulder site includes links Noah Eli Gordon's "24 Cut Lits"