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George Albon is the author of Empire Life (Littoral Books),
Thousands Count Out Loud (lyric & press), Brief Capital of
Disturbances (Omnidawn), and Step (The Post-Apollo
Press). Chapbooks include King (Meow Press), Transit Rock
(Duration Press), and Reading Pole (Seeing Eye Books). His
work has appeared in Hambone, New American Writing, O
Anthology 4, Avec Sampler 1, The New Review of Literature,
and the anthologies The Gertrude Stein Awards in
Innovative American Poetry, Bay Poetics, and Blood and
Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. His essay "The
Paradise of Meaning" was the George Oppen Memorial
Lecture for 2002. He lives and works in San Francisco.
"George Albon's Momentary Songs sound the possibilities of
forwardness and hope in a surrounding twilight of
unprecedented venality. Using a variety of registers—lyrical
inquiry, Blakean exhortation, the satirical spiel of
Morgenstern's Gallows Songs—they search for alternative
states (public ones, affective ones) as well as offer a probe
on what has come to pass."
- Rodney Koeneke
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