BOOKS
Incurve Press, NYC, 1977
CSSSS, Catania, Sicily, 1980
5 Poems
hand-made edition &
published by Christopher Liechty
1991
Or, Book O’ Lights
Limited edition, artist book, 1992
Reprint of the limited edition, Archae Editions, 2021
Limited edition, letter press artist book
Meyer & Liechty, Lindon, UT, 1999
Privately Printed, 1994
Body/Dreams/Organs
Elik Press
Salt Lake City
2005
Islander
Longhouse Press, Vermont, 2007
Various Atmospheres
poems and drawings
Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1998
almost stopped writing poetry—I was too pious—good
thing I prayed for the Holy Ghost, that old-time ancient
Muse Mother stirrer of words in the tongue holy spirit
lover of freedom God who comes into the breast hot &
fiery—
POETRY IS WANTED HERE
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2010.
First edition. Paperback. 75pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Paperback.
Full-length collection of poems and drawings from the famed Sonosopher of Utah, Alex Caldiero. Caldiero was born in Sicily, raised in Brooklyn, and attended Queens College. Well known for his performance works that integrate poetry with music, dance, and art-and for his appearance in the independent motion picture, Plan Ten from Outer Space-Caldiero has performed at the New School for Social Research, the Pritchard Art Gallery, the Salt Lake Art Center, and on Brazilian TV.
sonosuono
Elik Press, Salt Lake City, 2013
The house where I was born
Has become a hovel
With a cat, half dead,
Cowering about.
Only the mountains are unchanged;
The mountains, the sun, the moon,
And the eyes of the children.
Signature Books
Salt Lake City, 2015
Who is the dancer,
What is the Dance
Saltfront, Salt Lake City, 2016
Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance is based on a pocket journal that poet Alex Caldiero kept with him during a six-day river trip on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. In these poems, and the reproduced drawings that accompany and often house them, Caldiero explores how we simultaneously impinge upon, and give ourselves over to, a landscape. In these poems, our urban preconceptions falter and adapt to these places we call wild.
