| Poet, Sotere Torregian has published 8 books
of his poetry: Song For Woman (Joycian Court, 1965),
The Golden Palomino Bites the Clock (Angelhair, 1966),
The Wounded Matress (Oyez, 1968),
City of Light (Paris and San Fransico, 1971), The
Age of Gold (Kulcher, New York, 1976) and Amtrak
(Telephone 1979)
Contributor to various avant garde magazines, such as PARIS REVIEW, ART AND LITERATURE (Isere, France) and "C" a magazine of the arts, Sotere was associated with Surrealists, as well as with the "New York Group" of Poets and Painters, in the early 1960's. Resident of California from 1967, received Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry, 1968, and the Gotham Book Mart Author of the Year Award, 1976, in New York, upon publication of his Age of Gold (Poems 1968 - 1970). Assistant to Dr. St Clair Drake in founding the Afro-American Studies Program at Stanford University, 1969, where he taught as Writer In Residence and Scholar from 1969 to 1973, the author traces his ancestry to the Aghliabid Dynasty of Moorish rulers of Sicily to Greece, Ethiopia, and to the Levant, on his maternal side; and to The Maghreb and Central Asia on his paternal side. |