DOUBLOOON THREEUUUM

by Charles Doria

Overview

We're accustomed to use language to communicate with each other. We do so in words. As T.S. Eliot says in Sweeney Agonistes: "I gotta use words when I talk to you." We're so in the habit of doing just that, we don't even think much about it, we just do it. It's what we do. It's our job; it's the price of being alive and living in a human society. This is true all over the world, whether it be alphabet, ideogram and/or any form of verbal communication inbetween.

But what if it were fun? That's what we're doing, Richard Kostelanetz and I, in Doublooons. We take words that rhyme with each other, like pell mell, surreal heal, complex perplex, same tame, etc. Sometimes we stretch them: harpoon loon goon boon, etc. That's why we call them Doublooons, or stretched Doubloons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666208528
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Charles Doria

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 18, 1938.

I received a BA in Classics and Comparative Literature in 1960 from Adalbert College, an MA in Classics from Harvard in 1964, and a PhD in Comparative Literature and English from SUNY/Buffalo in 1968.

I lived in Rome from 1960-61, Vienna from 1965-66, London in the summers from 1966-70 and from 1971-72. I moved to New York in 1976 where I worked as a copy editor for a medical magazine. Then I spent five unhappy years as an adjunct professor at CUNY/La Guardia, CUNY/Staten Island, LIU/Brooklyn and Rutgers/Mason Gross School of the Arts. In 1987, I become a fulltime staff translator for a Wall-Street area language company. I retired in 2012 and moved to Boca Raton, Florida, where I currently reside.

I edited the following magazines: Audit/Poetry (1962-65) and Assembling Press (1983-87).

Books of Poetry Published:
Short (Assembling Press 1981), Short r (Assembling Press 1983), Game of Europe (Ohio UP/ Swallow Press, 1984), Baghdad Bones (Willis Locker & Owens, 1992),100 (Xpress 2001), Linguae (Xpress 2003), and 1/0 (Xpress 2004), Back Home (Archae Editions (2020).

Translations:
Origins: Creation Stories from the Ancient Mediterranean, Charles Doria, editor and contributor, et al. (Doubleday/AMS Press (1967), The Tenth Muse: Classical Drama in Translation, Charles Doria, editor and contributor (Ohio UP 1985), Big Jewish Book, Charles Doria, contributor (Doubleday 1988), Russian Samizdat Art, Charles Doria editor and contributor (Willis Locker & Owens, 1990).

Visual Books Appearing Shortly:
Pythagoras Mirror, Ares, Bursa, Odeon, Rubaiyat, Ars Nova, Sappho