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RECENT BOOKS POETRY: Submarinul Iertat: by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu Instrumentul
Negru: Poezii 1965-1968 It
Was Today - New Poems by Andrei Codrescu Alien
Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 Poezii
Alese/Selected Poetry Belligerence
Comrade
Past and Mister Present FICTION: Wakefield Casanova
in Bohemia, a novel A
Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 Messiah
The
Blood Countess The
Repentance of Lorraine MEMOIRS; TRAVELOGUES: An
Involuntary Genius in America’s Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
Ay,
Cuba! A Socio-Erotic Journey. With photographs by David
Graham. Road
Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century The
Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
ESSAYS: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City The
Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays. Hail
Babylon! Looking for the American City at the End of the Millenium
The
Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere Zombification:
Essays from NPR The
Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans The
Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape A
Craving for Swan Raised
by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research TRANSLATION: At
the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga ANTHOLOGIES EDITED: Thus
Spake the Corpse: an Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998. Volume Two,
Fictions, Travels, and Translations Thus
Spake the Corpse: an Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998. Volume One,
Poetry and Essays American
Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century American
Poetry Since 1970: Up Late The
Stiffest of the Corpse: an Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1983-1990
AUDIO TAPES/CDs: The
Valley of Christmas Plato
Sucks Fax
Your Prayers No
Tacos for Saddam American
Life with Andrei Codrescu FILM: Road
Scholar. NATIONAL APPEARANCES: NPR:
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, weekly commentary. Appearances on THE TODAY SHOW,THE TONIGHT SHOW,THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW, THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW,CNN-INTERNATIONAL HOUR,C-SPAN,ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, CBS NEWS. Writes commentary and book reviews for THE NEW YORK TIMES,THE BOSTON GLOBE,THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER,THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEWSDAY, THE KANSAS CITY STAR,PLAYBOY,SIERRA MAGAZINE, DIGITAL MEDIA, INDEX ON CENSORSHIP. Lectures extensively, participates in national and international symposia.List of topics available. AWARDS: MacCurdy
Distinguished Professor of English, LSU REFERENCE: Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America by Kirby Olson Miracol
si catastrofå: a book-length interview in Romanian
conducted by Robert Lazu CONTEMPORARY
AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES, Volume 19, 1994. ANDREI
CODRESCU: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1966-1990 by Daniel Lee Butcher. XAVIER REVIEW, Vol. 20, No.1, New Orleans 2000. "Tanslating Codrescu into Romanian" by Ioana Avadani; "Andreiology" by Julian Semilian; "Codrescu Verses America: A Postmodern Turned Loose" by Tim Lehnert. ROMANI IN STIINTA SI CULTURA OCCIDENTALA, American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Davis 1992. Encyclopedia: Romanians in Arts & Sciences in the Western world. SONG OF MY EMERGING SELF: THE POETRY OF ANDREI CODRESCU by Ileana Alexandra Orlich. MELUS, Volume 18, No.3, Fall 1993. SCRIITORI
DIN DIASPORA: ANDREI CODRESCU by Florea Firan ANDREI CODRESCU’S MIORITIC SPACE by Richard Collins. MELUS, Volume 23, Number 3, Fall 1998. SELECTED QUOTES: ON POETRY: "One
of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers." "His
command of language is superb, his writing beautifully original,
and his insights piercing." "The
writing is a celebration, a festive song of gratitude." "With
humor and grace, wisdom and tenderness, Codrescu transforms the
commonplace into the miraculous. His work is cause for celebration."
ON THE HOLE IN THE FLAG: "A
Panorama of life in post-revolutionary Romania...A work of great
complexity and subtlety... Unsettling... Touching, painstakingly
accurate...A gripping political detective story." "The
most valuable work on political manipulation since Orwell's 1984...
Codrescu peels layers of complexity from an important historical
event to reveal the ghastly truths." ON THE NPR COLLECTIONS: "These
sweet and sour satirical gems make for a fine filling between the
fragments of our lives. One at a time or as a whole, they deliver
a nice sense of completion and a large dash of laughter and insight
-- a rare combination these days." "This
transplanted Transylvanian with the bateau-mouche moustache always
manages (in his consideration of All Things) to create a craving
for the subversive-- something that is much needed in these days
of 'friendly fascism.' " "Codrescu's
essays remind us that brevity is the soul of wit and that imagination
doesn't have to be swaddled in description. If parents, teachers,
and politicians could imitate his style, the time savings alone
would make our lives seem longer and certainly happier." "Codrescu
manages to be brilliant and insightful,tough and seductive about
American culture..." ON ROAD SCHOLAR: "Mr.
Codrescu is the sort of writer who feels obliged to satirize and
interplay with reality and not just catalogue impressions...it's
a measure of talent..." "Codrescu
is a wordsmith par excellence...a modern day DeTocqueville... a
wry and whimsical, pungently idiosyncratic documentary." "Codrescu's
distinctive perspective makes the trip worth taking." "Funny,
exceptionally moving search for Whitman's America." "Codrescu
is among the most astute contemporary observers of what William
Carlos Williams called 'the American grain,' while simultaneously
joining playwright Eugene Ionesco as one of Romania's great rememberers
of dictatorial things past." "Mr.
Codrescu, with the deadpan burlesque of a jaded outsider, rightfully
assumes his place among the keener chroniclers of the American spirit,
1990s style. On film as on the radio, his work is defined by the
tensions at play between humor and sentiment, between one-liners
and aphorism, and between immigrant optimism and dissident cynicism." ON THE BLOOD COUNTESS: "An
extraordinary work of fiction...The Blood Countess is hypnotic and
lyrical, with both the concentrated poetic power of the great fairy
tales and the playful expansiveness of postmodern fiction." "Beautifully
written and meticulously researched...a book of high gothic drama"
"The
Blood Countess offers stylish entertainment that starts on Page
One...Codrescu is nervously alert for recurrent patterns of evil
and its handmaiden, absolute authority." ON A BAR IN BROOKLYN: NOVELLAS & STORIES 1970-1978: "Codrescu’s
voice is assured, funny as a jazz funeral and sharp as ammonia,
nailing more virtuoso turns than a Formula One driver. His prose
is so deadpan it goes through irony and comes out in some undiscovered
place on the other side." ON THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS: "A
charming rascal, Codrescu coos to his prey, lulling you into a kind
of dreamy complicity before neatly slashing your throat." "Codrescu,
an urbanite Walter Benjamin with a sense of humor, remains a poet,
a person who works ‘only at recognizing the awesomeness of
the universe, which is a job, too’." ON THE EXQUISITE CORPSE ANTHOLOGIES: "The
best aspects of the spirit of the Beats lives on in this frequently
sassy, salty, silly and ultimately satisfying experience."
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