Aspiration

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. LGBT Studies. "I think of aspiration as the state where a poet's thrown together life-structures both invite and are breached by the poet's preoccupations-known ones, new ones. It's the dream of meaningful placement and the open set."-George Albon George Albon is the author of EMPIRE LIFE (Littoral Books, 1998), Thousands Count Out Loud (lyric&press, 2000), BRIEF CAPITAL OF DISTURBANCES (Omnidawn Publishing, 2003), STEP (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006), MOMENTARY SONGS (Krupskaya, 2008), and ASPIRATION (Omnidawn Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared in HAMBONE, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, O Anthology 4, Avec Sampler 1, and the anthologies The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, BAY POETICS, and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. His essay "The Paradise of Meaning" was the George Oppen Memorial Lecture for 2002. He lives and works in San Francisco.