Andrew Mossin

Faculty, Language & Thinking Program

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Language and Thinking Program

Biography: Andrew Mossin (B.A., Hampshire College; M.A. and Ph.D. Temple University) is a poet interested in the connections that can be drawn between mythology, ritual and cultural memory in writing that explores the multifoliate dimension of subjectivity. His scholarship focuses on how constructs of masculinity and the communities developed through those constructs influence the development of avant-garde poetics and poetries, notably poets associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain School, including Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Nathaniel Mackey. His books include Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan), and three collections of poetry: Exile’s Recital (Spuyten Duyvil), The Veil (Singing Horse Press) and The Epochal Body (Singing Horse Press). He has completed a memoir, Through the Rivers, and a work of documentary poetry, The Torture Papers, and is currently at work on a new book of poetry that continues the work of Exile’s Recital in exploring the connections between the languages of the sacred, religious belief, and cultural heritage. He has been a faculty member in the Language & Thinking Program since 2012 and is an Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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