Joshua Clover during the Fall 2009 student and faculty protests at the University of California, Davis. Photo by Saudade7 . Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikipedia.
Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962) is an American poet, academic, and critic.
Life[]
Clover was born in Berkeley, California. His birth name was Joshua Miller Kaplan but via legal change he took his mother's maiden name.[1] His mother, Carol J. Clover, is the originator of the final girl theory in a book on horror films and a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. His father, Samuel Kaplan, who taught at Berkeley as well as Boston University, is a retired sociologist who published extensive film criticism and occasionally published poetry.
A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Clover is a Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, and was the distinguished Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001-2002.[2] He has appeared in 3 editions of Best American Poetry,
He writes a column of film criticism for Film Quarterly under the title "Marx and Coca-Cola," is a former senior writer and editor at the Village Voice, writes for The New York Times, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is a former senior writer for Spin. Clover wrote a regular reviews column for Spin magazine between 1999-2001 called "Show Us Your Hits."
His film criticism includes a book on The Matrix for the British Film Institute, and the Criterion Collection essays for Band of Outsiders and Straw Dogs. Under the pseudonym "Jane Dark", Clover has written a number of film and music reviews for The Village Voice
He has also been a political activist at Davis, where along with eleven students he engaged in a sit-in to protest the campus's financial arrangements with U.S. Bank. Clover and the eleven students, known as the "Davis Dozen," have each been charged with 20 counts of obstructing movement in a public place and one count of conspiracy.
Recognition[]
Clover is a 2-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA. His 1st book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Madonna anno domini. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
- The Totality for Kids. University of California Press, 2006.
Non-fiction[]
- The Matrix. British Film Institute, 2005.
- 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About. University of California Press, 2009.
Essays[]
- "Good Pop, Bad Pop: Massiveness, Materiality, and the Top 40", anthologized in This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 [1]
- "The Rose of the Name", Fence magazine, 1998 [2]
Articles[]
- Clover on The New Yorker, in the Village Voice, 2001 [3]
- Clover on Michel Houellebecq, in the Village Voice, 2003 [4]
- Clover on Semiotext(e), in Village Voice, 2002 [5]
- Clover on Courtney Love in the Village Voice, 2004 [6]
- Clover on Slavoj Žižek, in the Village Voice, 2005 [7]
- Clover on Guy Debord and John Ashbery in the Village Voice, 2005 [8]
- Clover on Gus Van Sant in the Village Voice, 2005 [9]
- Clover on Charles Reznikoff, in The New York Times Book Review, 2006 [10]
- Clover on Charles Baudelaire in The New York Times, December 2006 [11]
- Clover on "France:Still Revolting" [12]
- Clover on Velvet Goldmine, Spin magazine [13]Template:Dead
- Clover on Poetry Magazine [14]
See also[]
Joshua Clover I Want to Read at the White House
References[]
- ↑ [See his statement in Brooke Kroeger, Passing (2004), 207.]
- ↑ Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry, English Department, University of California at Berkeley. Web, Apr. 14, 2018.
External links[]
- Poems
- Joshua Clover profile and 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Joshua Clover b. 1962 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Books
- Joshua Clover at Amazon.com
- About
- Joshua Clover at Davis Wiki
- Matrix Reloaded, review of The Totality for Kids, Village Voice, 2006.
- "Zoned", review of The Totality for Kids, The Boston Review, September/October, 2006.
- review of The Totality for Kids, CutBank, January 21, 2007
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