virtual artists collective poetry
Paul Friedrich grew up and was educated in New England, has lived in Europe, Mexico, and India, has taught languages, literature, linguistics, and anthropology at eleven universities, has seven children and for long has made his home in Chicago and Virginia. He received his Ph.D from Yale University in 1957. Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought, and Associate in Slavics at the University of Chicago, he has done fieldwork in southwestern Mexico, South India, and among Russians. Other research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European, and American poetry. His current work is divided between anthropology and literary studies (e.g., Homeric Greek, Tolstoy, Thoreau) and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics. His publications include The Language Parallax: Linguistics, Relativism, and Poetic Creativity (1986) and Music in Russian Poetry (1997). His most recent poetry collection, Harmony in Babel, was published by Virtual Artists Collective in 2007.
保罗·弗里德里克（Paul Friedrich），男，1957年获耶鲁大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学人类学、语言学终身教授，并担任该校社会思想委员会委员和斯拉夫语协会会员。在新英格兰长大并接受教育，曾在欧洲、墨西哥和印度居住，先后在11所大学教授语言、文学、语言学和人类学。育有七个子女，居住于芝加哥和弗吉尼亚。曾在墨西哥西南地区、印度南部和俄罗斯人当中开展田野考察，其他研究包括古希腊阿芙洛蒂特神话研究、原始印欧诗歌及美国诗歌研究。目前主要从事人类学和文学研究（例如荷马诗篇中的希腊、托尔斯泰、梭罗）以及人种学、诗学、符号学、政治学方面的理论问题研究。有专著《语言视差：语言学、相对主义和诗歌创作》（1986年）、《俄罗斯诗歌中的音乐》（1997年），诗集《从根到花》（虚拟艺术家合作社，2006年）
a goldfinch instant: Concord to India Haikus
on the no road way to tomorrow