Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu (... is the editor of Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas (... Born in Romania, Codrescu immigrated to the United States in 1966. His first collection of poetry, License to Carry a Gun (1970), won the Big Table Younger Poets Award, and his latest, So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012 (2012), was a National Book Award finalist. He is the author of the novels The Blood Countess , Messi@ , Casanova in Bohemia , and Wakefield . His other titles...See more

Andrei Codrescu (... is the editor of Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas (... Born in Romania, Codrescu immigrated to the United States in 1966. His first collection of poetry, License to Carry a Gun (1970), won the Big Table Younger Poets Award, and his latest, So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012 (2012), was a National Book Award finalist. He is the author of the novels The Blood Countess , Messi@ , Casanova in Bohemia , and Wakefield . His other titles include Zombification: Essays from NPR ; The Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape ; New Orleans, Mon Amour ; The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution ; Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey ; The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess ; Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments ; The Poetry Lesson ; and Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes ) . Codrescu is the recipient of an ACLU Freedom of Speech Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for poetry, and the Peabody Award for the movie Road Scholar . Until retiring in 2009, he was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University. See less