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David Lloyd is a writer and critic,
born in Ireland and currently
living in Los Angeles and teaching
at the University of California,
Riverside. Arc & Sill: Poems 19792009, (Shearsman Books and
New Writers Press, 2012) collects
his five previous books of poetry:
Taropatch (Oakland: Jimmy’s
House of Knowledge, 1985),
Coupures (Dublin: hardPressed
Poetry, 1987), Change of State
(Berkeley: Cusp Books, 1993),
Sill, (Los Angeles: Cusp Books,
2006), and Vega (Los Angeles: Mind Made Books, 2009).
His play, The Press, has had staged readings in Dublin,
Los Angeles, Liverpool, and Manila, and premiered at
Liverpool Hope University in 2010. As a critic, he works
on Irish literature and culture and on poetry and
aesthetics. His most recent critical book is Irish Culture
and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000: The Transformation of
Oral Space (Cambridge, 2011). He is the editor of Cusp
Books, a chapbook press based in Los Angeles.
http://smithereenspress.com
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