Andrei Codrescu

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Andrei Codrescu (born December 20, 1946, in Sibiu, Romania) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio.

Codrescu left Romania to escape from the communist dictatorship. After time in Italy he emigrated to the United States in 1966, where he immediately sought out Allen Ginsberg and was part of the East Village art scene. In 1981, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is an editor of the defunct online journal The Exquisite Corpse, and is a MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Codrescu lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Codrescu's coverage of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 for National Public Radio was critically acclaimed. He was featured in the film Road Scholar which won a 1995 Peabody Award. He reigned as King of the Krewe du Vieux for the 2002 New Orleans Mardi Gras season.

Bibliography

Commentary

2001 Ay, Cuba: A Socio-Erotic Journey. With David Graham, co-author. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0312198310)
2001 An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes: (And What Happened Afterwards). Black Sparrow Books. (ISBN 157423160X)
2000 The Devil Never Sleeps: And Other Essays. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0312202946)
1999 Hail Babylon!: NPR's Road Scholar Goes in Search of the American City. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0312181078)
1996 The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR and Elsewhere. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0614957605)
1994 Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 031211107X)
1993 The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans : and Other Essays. St. Martin's Press. (ISBN 0312093543)
1993 Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century. With David Graham, photographer. Hyperion Books. (ISBN 1562828789)
1991 The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution. William Morrow and Co. (ISBN 0688088058)
1990 Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape. Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 0201121948)
1989 Raised by Puppets, Only to Be Killed by Research. Addison-Wesley. (ISBN 0201121832)
1986 A Craving for Swan. Ohio State University Press. (ISBN 0814204155)
1983 In America's Shoes. City Lights Publishers. (ISBN 0872861481)
1975 The life and times of an involuntary genius. G. Braziller. (ISBN 0807607738)

Fiction

2004 Wakefield. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. (ISBN 1565123727)
2002 Casanova in Bohemia : A Novel. Free Press. (ISBN 0684868008)
1999 Messiah. Simon & Schuster. (ISBN 0684803143)
1999 A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978. Black Sparrow Books. (ISBN 1574230980)
1996 The Blood Countess: A Novel. Simon & Schuster. (ISBN 0684802449)

Poetry

2003 it was today. Coffee House Press. (ISBN 1566891507)
1998 License to Carry a Gun. Carnegie-Mellon University Press. (ISBN 0887482805)
1997 Candoare straina: Poeme alese, 1970-1996 [in Romanian]. Editura Fundatiei Culturale Române. (ISBN 9735771233)
1993 Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995. Black Sparrow Press. ((ISBN 1574230131)
1991 Belligerence: New Poems. Coffee House Press. (ISBN 0918273854)
1986 Comrade past and Mister Present. Coffee House Press. (ISBN 0918273218)
1983 Selected Poems: 1970-1980. Sun Books.
1981 Diapers on the Snow. Crowfoot Press. (ISBN 0936462523)
1980 Necrocorrida. Panjundrum Press. (ISBN 0915572532)
1973 A serious morning (Yes! Capra chapbook series ; no. 9). Capra Press. (ISBN 0912264616)
1973 The history of the growth of heaven. G. Braziller. (ISBN 0807606928)

Editor

1999 Thus Spake the Corpse : An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 : Volume 1, Poetry & Essays. With Laura Rosenthal, co-editor. Black Sparrow Books. (ISBN 1574231022)
1999 Thus Spake the Corpse : An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 : Volume 2, Fictions, Travels and Translations. With Laura Rosenthal, co-editor. Black Sparrow Books. (ISBN 1574231014)
1996 American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century. With Laura Rosenthal, co-editor. Four Walls Eight Windows. (ISBN 1568580711)
1989 The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Consortium Book Sales & Dist. (ISBN 0872862135)
1988 American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late. Four Walls Eight Windows. (ISBN 0941423042)

Contributor

2001 Christopher Felver: The Importance of Being. Arena Editions. (ISBN 1892041480)
2000 John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces, 20th anniversary ed. Introduction by A.C. Louisiana State University Press. (ISBN 0807126063)
1999 David Graham: Land of the Free: What Makes Americans Different. Aperture. (0893818712)

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