Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover
Occupation	Poet

Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.

A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Clover is an Associate 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 1999-2000. [1] He writes a column of film criticism for Film Quarterly under the title "Marx and Coca-Cola", is a frequent contributor to the Village Voice, writes for The New York Times, 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. His birth name was Joshua Miller Kaplan; via legal change, he took his mother's maiden name [See Clover's statement in Brooke Kroeger, Passing (2004), p. 207] His mother, Carol J. Clover, Ph.D., is the originator of the final girl theory and a professor emerita at the University of California at Berkeley.

Under the pseudonym "Jane Dark", Clover has written a number of film and music reviews for The Village Voice, and maintains a blog entitled "jane dark's sugarhigh!"

Joshua Clover being arrested during the Fall 2009 student and faculty protests at the University of California, Davis.

Works

• Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 68 pp.
• The Matrix (British Film Institute, 2005), 128 pp.
• The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006), 76 pp.
• 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (University of California Press, 2009), 198 pp.

Articles

• Clover on The New Yorker, in the Village Voice, 2001 [2]
• Clover on Michel Houellebecq, in the Village Voice, 2003 [3]
• Clover on Semiotext(e), in Village Voice, 2002 [4]
• Clover on Courtney Love in the Village Voice, 2004 [5]
• Clover on Slavoj Žižek, in the Village Voice, 2005 [6]
• Clover on Guy Debord and John Ashbery in the Village Voice, 2005 [7]
• Clover on Gus Van Sant in the Village Voice, 2005 [8]
• Clover on Charles Reznikoff, in The New York Times Book Review, 2006 [9]
• Clover on Charles Baudelaire in The New York Times, December 2006 [10]
• Clover on "France:Still Revolting" [11]
• Clover on Velvet Goldmine, Spin magazine [12]
• Clover on Poetry Magazine [13]

Reviews of Clover's Poetry

• The Totality for Kids, Village Voice, 2006. [14]
• Zoned", The Boston Review, September/October, 2006. [15]
• The Totality for Kids,CutBank, January 21, 2007

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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 [17]
• "The Rose of the Name", Fence magazine, 1998 [18]

External links

• Jane Dark's Sugarhigh!
• American Academy of Poets profile
• Video of Clover reading at Bowery Poetry Club in New York, 2006
• Joshua Clover at Davis Wiki

Trivia

• Clover wrote a regular reviews column for Spin magazine between 1999-2001 called "Show Us Your Hits."

• Clover's article on Poetry Magazine was noted by Greil Marcus in his Salon column "Real Life Rock Top Ten"[19]