André Spears was born and raised in New York City, and since the late 1970s has lived with his wife in Greenwich Village, where they raised their family. He is the author of Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis (1983) and, from work in progress, Letters from Mu (Part I) (2000); Fragments from Mu: A Sequel (2007); Nexus of Evil: Late Fragments, 1-7 (2009); XIII: Ship of State (2019)… From the Lost Land (I-XII), a print re-issue of Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis, Shrinkrap: Litany in Quadaphony were published by BlazeVOX in 2020. All titles are available from Amazon.
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A review of the Miles Davis exhibit “We Want Miles” at the Cité de la Musique in Paris appears in the online journal Sibila under the rubric “Hotel Kafka”.
Translation, a collaboration with photographer Anne Rosén, was published by Voix Editions in 2010, as was the 2011 “matchbook” collaboration Arcadia (Para Walter Benjamin).
The author is the director of the Maud/Olson Library and a co-founder of the Gloucester Writers Center.
He is a sensei in Seido karate and a former executive editor at the now archived Dispatches from the Poetry Wars.
En Terre Perdue: Extraits d’une œuvre en cours is a translation by the author into French of Letters from Mu (Part I) to which a Post-Scriptum and new drawings by Gilgian Gelzer have been added. It was published as an artist’s book in 2013 by Richard Meier (Voix Editions) in a large-format edition of 14 numbered copies, together with a reprinted version of the English-language work. The matching two-volume set contains original drawings by the artist on the inside covers of both books.
Letters from Mu (Part I) / Mu Counterpoint was published as an artist’s book in France in 2000 with over 50 drawings by the Swiss artist Gilgian Gelzer. Excerpts from this work in progress appear in First Intensity (#12, Spring 1999) and Pierogi Press (#9, Fall 2002). The book is available through Printed Matter or directly from the publisher.
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Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis was privately published in 1983 under the imprint of Pangaea Press and produced in an edition of five hundred copies by the Print Center, a non-profit printing facility in Brooklyn, New York. It was republished as a “virtual chapbook” by Dispatches Editions in 2019.
