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| San Francisco | | | Editor:
| O'Reilly, James
Habegger, Larry
O'Reilly, Sean | | Contribution by:
| Codrescu, Andrei
Maran, Meredith
Caen, Herb
Setterberg, Fred
Rodriguez, Richard
Gold, Herb | | Series title: | Travelers' Tales Guides Ser. | | ISBN: | 978-1-885211-08-8 | | Publication Date: | Jan 2000 | | Publisher: | Travelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc.
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $17.95 | Book Description:
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Romanian-born poet and essayist Andrei Codrescu, who also utilizes the pen names Betty Laredo and Maria Parfeni, emigrated to the United States in 1966. Codrescu earned a B.A. at the University of Bucharest, and has taught at numerous academic institutions including Johns Hopkins, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University.
Codrescu worked for National Public Radio as a commentator and has been featured on ABC News' Nightline. Some of Codrescu's short stories and novels include his first poetry collection, License to Carry a Gun and a memoir entitled In America's Shoe.
Throughout the years, Codrescu has been awarded many honors including the Big Table Poetry Award, General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for poetry, editing, and radio.
His titles include The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, The Poetry Lesson, and Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments.
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