With Bruce Boone and Steve Abbott, Robert Glück founded New Narrative, a literary movement in San Francisco that saw itself, at the end of the 1970s, in dialogue with Language Poetry and the autonomous poetry movements of the time. New Narrative encouraged self-reflexive voices, fluctuations between theory and fiction, and the use of essay, lyric, and autobiography in one work. NN writers include Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Camile Roy, and fellow travelers like Chris Kraus, Kathy Acker, and Dennis Cooper. Robert Glück served as director of San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center and co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center. He is an emeritus professor of creative writing and the author of 12 books, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, two books of stories, Elements and Denny Smith, books of poetry including Reader, and with Kathleen Fraser In Commemoration of the Visit, and most recently Parables, an artist book with Cuban artists Jose Angel Toirac and Meira Marrero Díaz, and Communal Nude: Collected Essays. In 2020, Margery Kempe will be republished by New York Review of Books Classics. Glück edited with Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative. He lives “high on a hill” in San Francisco.
Robert Glück
Studios
Sorosis
Robert Glück worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…