Scott Ezell

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Scott Ezell is an American poet and multi-genre artist who has lived in Asia more than a dozen years. His poems, lyric essays, and photographs have been published internationally. His book-length poem PETROGLYPH AMERICANA, published by Empty Bowl Press in 2010, is a journey through the landscapes, communities, and history of the American West, with resonances and reflections from Asian landscapes and cultures. He is the editor and co-author of SONGS FROM A YAHI BOW (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2011), the only published book of poetry about Ishi, the last American Indian to live as a traditional hunter-gatherer in the continental United States. He has written and performed music with modern and flamenco dancers, and has recorded more than ten albums of original songs and instrumental music, some of which have been used as film soundtracks. In September 2010 Scott Ezell read his essay “The Road to My Lai” and selections from the poem-cycle “Carbon Rings” in Authors for peace, an event organized in Berlin to observe United Nations Day of Peace.

Scott Ezell was born in Berkeley, California. He received a BA in English from UC Davis, studied Chinese at UC Berkeley, then entered the MA program in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. In 1992 he left graduate school to study Chinese language and literature in Taiwan, and lived a dozen years in Asia, working as a writer, editor, radio host, street musician, recording artist, and record producer. He also traveled widely in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and other countries.

From 2002 – 2004 Scott Ezell lived with a community of aboriginal woodcarvers in Dulan Village, on the Pacific coast of Taiwan. There he rented an abandoned farmhouse and built a recording studio from driftwood and analog tape machines. In 2003 he produced the poetry-music-painting album Ocean Hieroglyphics, which was released internationally by Wind Records. His essay collection A Far Corner, to be published in 2011, is a first-person account of life in a contemporary aboriginal community.

After traveling through Tibet and along the Silk Road to China’s border with Afghanistan, Scott Ezell returned to America in 2005 and began writing the book-length poem Petroglyph Americana. In 2006 he lived in Barcelona, working as a freelance writer and performing music with flamenco dancers in anarchy bars. In 2007 he was invited to participate in an artist residency at the Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia along with two aboriginal sculptors from Taiwan, and created the poem-painting series “Migration.” In 2008 he composed and performed music for the Stimulate Modern Dance Company in Seattle, and wrote The End of China, a cultural travelogue of eastern Tibet and Xinjiang. His poem-painting series “Carbon Rings” was exhibited at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle in September 2008.

Scott Ezell’s writing has appeared in the Asia Literary Review, the Kyoto Journal, Modern Chinese Poetics, MaLa, the Taipei Times, Chan magazine, and other publications. He has composed soundtracks for several films, and his music is available through Amazon, iTunes, other major distributors, and on his website. Ocean Hieroglyphics, a multi-genre project combining poems, paintings, photos, and music, has been re-issued as a book-CD package.

In 2009 Scott Ezell moved to Hanoi, where he wrote the poem-cycle “Hanoi Rhapsodies,” called by the poetry editor of the Asia Literary Review “a view of Hanoi that is distinctively dystopian and authentically visceral, while retaining a strong humane sensibility.” In Hanoi he performs improvised music with Vietnamese composer Vu Nhat Tan, which has resulted in the experimental music albums The Seventh String and On the Beach. Since 2009 he has written and recorded two albums of folksongs, Where Will You Go When Your Heart is Free and Exiles in Love , and two collections of experimental guitar improvisation, Electroluminux, and Still Life with Blackbirds and Machines .

In 2010 Scott Ezell was invited to the Bookworm International Literary festival in China, and he has given poetry workshops and readings in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. He is based in Hanoi and the West Coast of the United States.

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