Collapse of the Grid

About the Book

Collapse of the Grid collects poems written over thirty years, including pieces used in avant-garde musical works during the 1980s and 1990s by Randy Greif and Art Simon. The most recent poems incorporate the new experience of being a parent into the inscrutable stream of wordplay that seems to define my earlier work.

About the Author

Alva Svoboda is a poet, painter and operations researcher who lives in Oakland, California with his wife Jenny and two daughters, Elena and Charla. His poetry has been published in Konglomerati, Telephone, Carbuncle, Jejeune, Black Tape Press, Oxygen, Gas, Mike and Dale's Younger Poets, and online in Realpoetik. His drawings have been published in Zyzzyva, and his book reviews have appeared in the Santa Barbara News and Review and Exquisite Corpse. He received his Ph.D in Operations Research from U.C. Berkeley in 1992 for work on the simulation and integration of dispatchable demand-side management into electric system unit commitment.