I Must Go She Said "Because My Pizza's Cold": Selected Works, 1957-1999

Poetry. Affiliated with French Surrealist poets and associated with the New York School of poets and painters, Sotere Torregian has published eight books of poetry and contributed to many small press magazines since the 1960s, including the Paris Review, Art and Literature (Isere, France) and "C," a magazine of the arts. Assistant to Dr. St Clair Drake, he helped establish the Afro-American Studies Program at Stanford University in 1969, where he also taught as Writer In Residence and Scholar. "No poet ever won the Irish Sweepstakes / Because a poet's fate is to weep at the stake" (from "For Groucho Marx").