Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 08/29/1946  Topeka
Parents: John J. and Natalie Clinton
Spouse: Jacqueline Fay, a nurse researcher
Children: Melissa Elizabeth Sobin
Address(es):
Permanent:
3567 North Murray Ave.
Shorewood, WI 53211
Permanent:
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190
Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://facstaff.uww.edu/clintond

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Wisconsin Poetry - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters	1991
	Eleven Wisconsin Poets - Editor Dewitt Clinton	Poetry	Adult	Dubuque, IA : Kendall/Hunt	1987
	Active Death: Unholy Rhymes - Chapbook under the pseudonym Witt Lowidski	Poetry	Adult	New York : Count Dracula Fan Club Press	1986
	Poetry Ohio: Art of the State ; An Anthology of Ohio Poems	Poetry	Adult	Marion, Ohio : Ohio State University	1984
	Furnace: A Ballet Performance - Chapbook	Poetry	Adult	Cornwall, England : Kawabata Press	1984
	das Illustrite Mississippithal Revisited - Chapbook	Poetry	Adult	Browns Mills, New Jersery : Browns Mill Review	1983
	Night Jungle Bird Life - Chapbook	Poetry	Adult	Pandora , Ohio : 02 Press	1983
	An American Anthology: A Geopoetics Landmark - Editor with Tom Montag and C. W. Tresdale, volume I	Poetry	Adult	St. Paul, MN : New Rivers Press	1983
	The Coyot.Inca Texts: Improvisations	Poetry	Adult	St. Paul, MN : New Rivers Press	1979
	Rand McNally Poems : in New BKMK Poets - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Kansas City, MO : Book Mark Press	1977
	The Conquistador Dog Texts	Poetry	Adult	New York : New Rivers Press	1976
	Heartland II: Poets of the Midwest - Anthology	Poetry	Adult	DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University	1975
	- Contributor of articles and poems to magazines, including Mid-American Review, Overland Journal, Stone Country, Worcester Review, Contact II, Wisconsin Review, Apalachee Quarterly. Birmingham Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Great River Review, and Gulf Stream Magazine	Poetry

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "I am presently being absorbed into the great Maya, Aztec, and Inca Empires and I feel it is important for someone to retell these great stories and tales which few North Americans have ever given considerable thought to. So a projected project has me researching, processing into a contemporary vernacular, and re-telling these 'American' literatures. Perhaps in a few years I will cross the Rio Grande River and begin work with North American tribes, acting as a kind of 'wide translator' of their stories, but until I run out of stories to the south, I imagine to wonder around Mexico, Central America and Peru for a long time. I am hoping to work as 'adapter and chronicler' at the same time." Contemporary Authors says, "'Geopoetics' is a term coined by Tom Montag to describe the early issues of Salthouse. I've used the term as a subtitle to a large anthology, An American Anthology, as well as a 'catch phrase' to describe my own work in historical improvisation. My interest in re-writing history, especially American conquistador history, began in 1975 when Howard McCord introduced me to the holy texts of the ancient Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, as well as tales of singular 'heroic' conquistadors, including deVaca and Coronado.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Gives Poetry Readings

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Poet

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