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Michael Andre (born
August 31,
1946) is a
Canadian poet,
critic and
editor living in
New York City.
Andre was born in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia, to a civil engineer doing wartime work on a military hospital. His mother's father was a newspaperman, Eyton Warburton; he died when Andre was an infant. Andre was raised in
Kingston,
Ontario. He studied at
McGill University (Honors English, B.A., 1968), the
University of Chicago (M.A., 1969) and
Columbia University (Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, 1973).
Andre hosted radio shows in Chicago and New York. He interviewed, published, and occasionally socialized with
W. H. Auden and
Eugene McCarthy, Beats like
Gregory Corso,
William S. Burroughs and
Allen Ginsberg, and homosexual esthetes like
John Cage and
Andy Warhol. He is divorced from Erika Rothenberg, an artist, and Jane Adler, a flautist and sign-language interpreter; he's a son, Benjamin Eyton Andre. Papers may be found at the
University of Tulsa and at
Yale University.
Andre is the editor of
Unmuzzled OX, an occasional magazine of poetry, art and politics which began in 1971 as a quarterly and has produced 16 volumes. Andre edited and published two books by
Gregory Corso,
Earth Egg and
Writings from OX. His opera,
Orfreo, with music by
Elodie Lauten, premiered at Merkin Hall in 2004. The two also collaborated on
Sex and Pre-anti-post-modernism and
S.O.S. W.T.C. He has two widely-available anthologies of selected poems:
Studying the Ground for Holes (1978) and
Experiments in Banal Living (1998). He has worked as a critic for
The Montreal Gazette,
Art News,
Art in America and the
The Village Voice. His autobiographical essay was published in 1991 by Gale.
In addition to being a poet and editor, Andre was involved with social issues beginning in Paris in 1967 and sometimes appears as a Catholic
homme de gauche. "A jackrabbit, if it could read [Andre'spoetry]", according to
Daniel Berrigan, poet and
Catholic Worker, "would jump for glee. And if it could talk to itself, wd. undoubtedly be heard saying, 'Demme, wish I'd thought of that!'"
Andre has recited his poetry in London, Frankfurt and Paris, at various venues in New York including the Public Theater, St. Mark's Poetry Project, and the Bowery Poetry Club as well as at numerous universities and galleries throughout Canada and the United States. Since 1992, Andre has written a column called "New York Letter" for the
Small Press Review.
Interviews
Interviews with
W. H. Auden,
Denise Levertov,
Robert Creeley,
James Wright,
Allen Ginsberg,
James Dickey, and Corso with scholarly commentary were accepted as his doctoral dissertation at Columbia in 1973. The interviews with Levertov, Creeley and Corso have been reprinted in a number of different periodicals. The Levertov interview first appeared in
The Little Magazine; the others first appeared in
Unmuzzled OX. Warhol interviews appeared in
Small Press Review,
ART News and
Unmuzzled OX. The Berrigan interview was commissioned by Warhol for his magazine, then rejected for its political content, and appeared in
Unmuzzled OX. Tapes of radio broadcasts with
Patti Smith,
Charles Bukowski and others are at the
University of Tulsa. Interviews with Andre about Auden and Lauten are in forthcoming films. An interview about
Jackie Curtis is in
Superstar in a Housedress, the
HBO documentary and subsequent
Penguin book.
Selected bibliography
Poetry
- Xmas Present. New York: Mimeo, 1974.
- My Regrets. Minneapolis: Pentagram, 1975.
- Studying the Ground for Holes. New York: Release, 1978.
- Letters Home. Montreal: Cross Country, 1979.
- Jabbing the Asshole is High Comedy. New York: Print Center, 1981.
- It as It. New York: Money for Food, 1990.
- Experiments in Banal Living. Montreal: Empyreal, 1998.
- Unmuzzled in Paris. Paris: Lalande Digital, 2004.
- Scratched Lens. Key West, FL: Cycle, 2006.
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