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Buy FABRIC at SPD, Amazon, Lulu, or Barnes and Noble

Buy THE PASSENGER direct from Skylight Press, in the US from Amazon or Barnes and Noble, or in the UK from Waterstones or Amazon.co.uk

Both books are also available from Powell's, many other online sellers, and your neighborhood bookstore

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mirrors

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Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire was published by A Muffled Cry Publications, May 2004 in Boulder, CO. The book is now out of print but occasionally becomes available here.

"Can light flood / a dark, grimy sky? / Can we rip the darkness / denser then pitch? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in (or inferred from) Richard Froude's tough, tender, spleen-filled Tarnished Mirrors: brand new Baudelaire for this brand new century!"
- Laird Hunt

"Froude is from Bristol, England. In the diction that moves through him lie patterns of sound just distant enough from American speech to conjure an earlier era, at the threshold of our own."
- Andrew Schelling

A pdf copy of the text is also available. Please contact rdfroude AT gmail DOT com if you are interested in this. The full text includes the original French with English translations, a preface by Andrew Schelling and two afterword essays by the translator.

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1/18/12

**OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE PASSENGER**

To celebrate the publication of The Passenger from Skylight Press, I'm reading this Saturday night (1/21) for the Bad Shadow Affair with Heather Green, Peter Streckfus, and Kristin Naca. It's at Lost Lake on Colfax right here in Denver. And it starts at 7:30pm.

Here's the link to the event page on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/273928575993513/

1/10/12

New website is up and running ...

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media

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SOME WRITING
"Our Past" at Necessary Fiction
"Cast" at Birkensnake
"Seven Things" at Slack Lust
"The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice" at Witness
"Mike May" at Swink
"from The History of Zero" at Word for Word
"Practical Math" at Bombay Gin
"A to Z" in Past Simple
"Apocrypha #9" at 42opus

Click HERE for excerpts from FABRIC

REVIEWS

Fabric
Nat Otting at HTMLGIANT
rob mclennan at mclennan's blog
Daniel Nester at WWAATD
Jess Stoner at Necessary Fiction
Michael Flatt at New Pages
Megan Burns at Tarpaulin Sky
Kevin Killian at Amazon

The Passenger
Publisher's review at Skylight
Sarah Suzor on History of Zero at Tarpaulin Sky
Robb St. Lawrence on MTT at Phoebe

GOODREADS
FABRIC
The Passenger
Author Page

INTERVIEWS/PRESS
With Selah Saterstrom at Zero Ducats
rob mclennan's 12 or 20 questions at mclennan's blog
Q&A with Erik Anderson's MFA Nonfiction Class at Horse Less Press
Westword: Five Denver Writers
DU Annual Report: People to Watch
With Tamara Chapman at DU Today
Author Page at Skylight Press

AUDIO
KBOO FM, The Talking Earth: Portland, OR (January 2006)
Pirate Cat Radio: San Francisco, CA (October 2008)
Reading at Splab: Seattle, WA (May 2011)
KRFC, The Poetry Show: Fort Collins, CO (June 2011)

VIDEO
The Bad Shadow Affair (April 2011)
With Small Dream Ada (June 2011)

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Horse Less Press
Skylight Press
Catfish Press

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rdfroude AT gmail DOT com

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Richard Froude was born in London in 1979, grew up in Bristol and came to the US in 2002. He has since lived in Boulder, CO, Los Angeles, CA, Portland, OR, and currently Denver, CO. He is the author of FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011) and The Passenger (Skylight Press, 2012) – and a book of translation – Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire (Muffled Cry Editions, 2004). Writing has also appeared in print and online at Conjunctions, Witness, Tarpaulin Sky, Diagram, Bombay Gin and elsewhere. With Anne Waldman and Erik Anderson, he compiles and edits the mail-art journal Thuggery & Grace. He has read and performed his work widely – including appearances on public radio in California, Oregon and Colorado. He is the recipient of the 2004 Ted Berrigan Award from Naropa University and the 2010/11 Evan Frankel Fellowship from the University of Denver. An associate of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he works with palliative care and hospice patients. He lives in Capitol Hill with his wife, Rohini.

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"The complexities of alienation hybridize the mouth, double the tongue. The logic of Froude’s syntax gives us, mercifully, the poetics of the divided tongue: in the space between multiple possibilities, we are invited to trespass our own borders . . . that we might – finally – hear (and learn to speak) radical change and transformation. FABRIC is a remarkable and necessary book, a wonderful achievement." --Selah Saterstrom

"Of FABRIC: Accepting whatever its elegant sentences say, in their not conventional logic, I’m convinced it contains whatever I need to understand it. It says it’s about memory, numbers (sequence), consciousness . . . And I guess it is, I really like reading it (a big compliment). Being in the fabric of it, though it is so mysterious – an amazing book." --Alice Notley

"I love Richard Froude’s declarative, incandescently plain sentences, which at first seem like high-stakes non-sequiturs, then a study in perfect, surprising aphorism, then a deftly woven web of profundity. The formal distillation and intellectual range of this book are impressive enough; even more so is Froude’s gentle but insistent touching on questions of God, mortality, war, memory, family, intimacy, and history. Froude sets up poetic shop in the fraught space between ‘terror and fertility,’ and wrests from it this exceptionally beautiful, intelligent book." --Maggie Nelson

"This is a British blurb, because we were both born in England. Richard Froude is sort of brilliant. To translate: he is a complete and utter bloody genius. I am thrilled to stand behind this gorgeous, fused book. I remember when I met Richard, and we sat on some stairs at Naropa. I tried to explain to him that he was doing something strange and beautiful in his writing, that was different to other kinds of writing. I said: 'Have you ever considered the possibility that you're actually a novelist?' He looked at me blankly, but now I think the prediction has come true. What is a novel? That's separate. Ask Richard. Ask the person who mutates the given form." --Bhanu Kapil

Excerpts online at Conjunctions, Tarpaulin Sky, Horse Less Review and Wolf In A Field and in print journals Bombay Gin, Pageboy and Mirage #4 Periodical.

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