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 Anna
Rabinowitz’s latest volume of poetry is
PRESENT TENSE, published by
Omnidawn Books, September 2010
PRESENT TENSE is a risk-taking,
urgent tour de force, a book-length poetic project that is anatomy,
history, testimony, eulogy, and divining rod of our
constantly evolving present. In four acts, Rabinowitz dramatizes not
only its various socio-religious-political ecosystems but also the
myriad echoes of those systems that resound in our psyches and
permeate our thoughts. Through dialogue, reportage, Biblical reference, interview,
famous speech, infamous cultural and historical events and more,
Rabinowitz offers readers an arresting account of who and what we
are as humans—in all of our darkness and our brilliance. This
poetry—with its invigorating breadth and shocking immediacy—compels
its readers’ full engagement with the page, an interaction that
incites us to examine our own position and potential in the
ever-shifting kaleidoscope of the actual, as we live it moment by
moment.
 DARKLING's
latest incarnation is as a CD to be released by
Albany Records in 2011. Libretto by Anna Rabinowitz,
original music by
Stefan Weisman,
accompanied by
The Flux Quartet and
sung by
Jon Garrison, tenor,
Maeve Hoglund, soprano,
Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo
soprano, and
Mark Uhlemann, bass.
Conducted by
Brian DeMaris.
Other volumes of poetry by Anna Rabinowitz:
DARKLING:
A Poem , a book-length acrostic poem that was a
finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of 2001 Award and
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other lives for DARKLING
include incarnations as a fully staged, experimental
multi-media opera by
American Opera Projects and
a touring concert version.
The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers
and Wonders, due to premiere as an opera monodrama in
2011, with music written by
Tarik O’Regan.
AT THE SITE OF INSIDE OUT,
winner of the Juniper Prize of the University of Massachusetts
Press.
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