Otis College of Art and Design

Seeing Los Angeles: A Different Look at a Different City

Edited by Guy Bennett & Béatrice Mousli

"How do you fit seventeen million people, eight thousand square miles, eighty-eight languages, and just as many religions, cuisines, traditions, etc., into a single poem? How do you present accurate facts and figures for a place in constant flux: three million newcomers each year, somewhat fewer deserters, constant earth movements, recurring natural disasters, and the resultant, inevitable shifts in physical and demographic boundaries?"

Born in 1960, Guy Bennett is a poet and translator, who received his Ph.D. in French Literature from UCLA. His books of poetry include Last Words, The Row, and Drive to Cluster (a collaboration with artist Ron Griffin). His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies internationally. Recent translations include works by Nicole Brossard, Mostafa Nissabouri, Valère Novarina, Jacques Roubaud, and Giovanna Sandri. He is the publisher of Mindmade and co-editor of Seismicity Editions. Currently, Bennett is an Associate Professor at Otis College of Art and Design. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Born in Orleans, France in 1966, Beatrice Mousli in the author of many books including Valery Larbaud (1998), and Max Jacob (2005). Mousli has collaborated with her husband, Guy Bennett, on many projects, most recently Beyond the Iconic at the L.A. Central Library. Mousli currently resides in Los Angeles, where she teaches at both USC aand Otis College of Art and Design.

Interview:

Interview with Guy Bennett and Béatrice Mousli, in Conversation with Yann Perreau http://www.visionsofthecity.com/yann01.htm

ISBN-13: 978-0-9755924-9-6
ISBN-10: 0-9755924-9-1
PRICE: $12.95
Published 2007
202 pages

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