--- title: "2 Leslie Scalapino Quotes - Famous Poet (The Return of Painting; The Pearl; And Orion)" description: "Leslie Scalapino was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leslie-scalapino-59888.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Leslie Scalapino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leslie-scalapino-59888.jpg) # Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010) Poet United States **2** quotes in **25** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Leslie Scalapino was a poet from the United States, best known for *The Return of Painting; The Pearl; And Orion*. ## Quick Facts About Leslie Scalapino Born July 25, 1944 Died May 28, 2010 Nationality United States Profession Poet Notable works The Return of Painting; The Pearl; And Orion ## About Leslie Scalapino Leslie Scalapino was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way, a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award. ## Quotes by Leslie Scalapino > [“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. As the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-scalapino/desert-which-is-immense-and-from-above-light-brown-or-red-vast/) [Leslie Scalapino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-scalapino/) [Desert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/leslie-scalapino-108694_human-life_desert-which-is-immense-and-from-above-l_909986.jpg) > [Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-scalapino/charles-bernstein-s-pairs-of-jingles-of-public-discourse-are/) [Leslie Scalapino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-scalapino/) [Discourse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discourse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/leslie-scalapino-108694_discourse_charles-bernstein-s-pairs-of-jingles-of_934689.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-scalapino/#itemlist", "name": "Leslie Scalapino Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. 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