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==Life==
==Life==
A graduate of [[Boston University]] and the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] MFA program, Clover is a Professor of [[English Literature]] and [[Critical Theory]] at the [[University of California, Davis]], and was the distinguished Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002-2003.<ref>http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/history/page19/page19.html</ref>
A graduate of [[Boston University]] and the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]], where he studied with [[Jorie Graham]], Clover is a Professor of [[English Literature]] and [[Critical Theory]] at the [[University of California, Davis]], and was the distinguished Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002-2003.<ref>http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/history/page19/page19.html</ref>


He writes a column on politics and popular culture, "Pop and Circumstance, for "[[The Nation]]." He has written columns for ''Film Quarterly'', under the title "Marx and Coca-Cola," and is a former senior writer and editor at the ''[[Village Voice]].'' has contributed to ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', and the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'', and is a former senior writer for ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''.
He writes a column on politics and popular culture, "Pop and Circumstance, for "[[The Nation]]." He has written columns for ''Film Quarterly'', under the title "Marx and Coca-Cola," and is a former senior writer and editor at the ''[[Village Voice]].'' has contributed to ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', and the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'', and is a former senior writer for ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''.

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Joshua Clover
BornJoshua Miller Kaplan
(1962-12-30) December 30, 1962 (age 61)
Berkeley, California
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBoston University;
Iowa Writers' Workshop
GenreScholarship; Poetry
Notable worksMadonna anno domini

Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a professor at the University of California Davis. He is a published poet, scholar, critic, and journalist. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry and two times in Best American Music Writing, and has received an individual grant from the NEA as well as fellowships from the Cornell Society for the Humanities, The University of California Humanities Research Institute, and Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. His first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1996.[1] The judge, Jorie Graham, called Clover "a physicist of syllables, a mesmerizing singer of near-apocalyptic lullabies, a rememberer, a forgetter, a reinventer, a destroyer—a philosopher of disappearances, an architect of mutabilities—this poet actually sees the new world we are emerging into—from the fission of subatomic matter to its cataclysmic effects on the deserts of both our planet and our inner lives."[2]

Life

A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied with Jorie Graham, Clover is a Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, and was the distinguished Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002-2003.[3]

He writes a column on politics and popular culture, "Pop and Circumstance, for "The Nation." He has written columns for Film Quarterly, under the title "Marx and Coca-Cola," and is a former senior writer and editor at the Village Voice. has contributed to The New York Times, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is a former senior writer for Spin. His film criticism includes a book on The Matrix for the British Film Institute, and the Criterion Collection essays for Band of Outsiders and Straw Dogs. Under the pseudonym "Jane Dark," Clover has written a number of film and music reviews for various outlets.

Clover is also a political activist. In January 2012, he and eleven students at the University of California, Davis, engaged in a sit-in to protest the financial arrangements between U.S. Bank and the university. The protesters, who became known as the "Davis Dozen," were charged with "obstructing movement in a public place and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor."[4] One month before the trial was scheduled to begin, the Davis Dozen accepted a plea deal from the Yolo County District Attorney. Under the terms of that agreement, the protesters received an infraction notice ticket and agreed to perform 80 hours of community service.[5]

Clover's given name at birth was Joshua Miller Kaplan but via legal change he took his mother's maiden name. His mother, Carol J. Clover, is the originator of the final girl theory in a book on horror films and a professor emerita at the University of California at Berkeley.

Works

  • Madonna anno domini: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 1 January 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2147-4. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  • The Matrix (British Film Institute, 2005), 128 pp.
  • The Totality for Kids. University of California Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-520-24599-0. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  • 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About. University of California Press. 7 October 2009. ISBN 978-0-520-94464-0. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

Articles

Essays

  • "Good Pop, Bad Pop: Massiveness, Materiality, and the Top 40", anthologized in This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 [13]
  • "The Rose of the Name", Fence, 1998 [14]

Reviews of Clover's Poetry

  • "Matrix Reloaded," review of The Totality for Kids by Alan Gilbert, Village Voice, 2006. [15]
  • "Zoned," review of The Totality for Kids by John Palattella, The Boston Review, September/October, 2006. [16]
  • Review of The Totality for Kids by Christopher Burawa, CutBank, January 21, 2007. [17]

Trivia

  • Clover wrote a regular reviews column for Spin magazine between 1999-2001 called "Show Us Your Hits."
  • Clover's article on Poetry was noted by Greil Marcus in his Salon column "Real Life Rock Top Ten"[18]

References

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