How to Get the most out of your jet lag - Softcover

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British-born Donald Gardner (London 1938) has lived in Holland since 1979 and works as a translator. His debut as a performance poet was in the 1960s in New York where he lived for three years, taking part, for instance, in the legendary 1967 reading at the East Village Theater. He is a translator of poetry, notably of work by Octavio Paz and Ernesto Cardenal. In the 1960s, his work was published in many small magazines in New York and London.

Back in London, he founded a group of street poets, Guerilla Poets in 1968. In the 1970s, he was a street actor with the London group of the Living Theater, playing in London, Yorkshire and Belfast.

Since moving to Holland, besides writing poetry, he has made a number of one-person performances of his poetry. He has presented his monologue, "Chicken with Madness" some 50 times in Holland. It was one of three poetry performances selected for Amsterdam’s year as Cultural Capital of Europe (1988) and he has also played it in New York — at Dixon Place and the Poetry Project (Saint Marks Church).

Donald Gardner's first two books were published in London — "Peace Feelers", by Cafe Books, Christopher Logue’s imprint, and "For the Flames", by Stuart Montgomery’s Fulcrum Press. In Holland he has published three chapbooks under his own imprint, Forget-me-not Press.

A frequent visitor to New York during the past few years, Donald Gardner has performed in the Mad Alex Series (Biblios), at the Knitting Factory, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Cornelia St. Cafe, Tribes, ABC No Rio and other venues. In August 1997, he brought his poetry-performance, "How to get the most out of your Jet Lag" — now the title of this book — for a two-week run to the 1st New York Fringe Festival.