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For those primarily interested in my recent political prose, go to My Politics webpage, formerly entitled "Iraq, al-Qaeda, 9/11". For those primarily interested in my poetry, go to
My Selected Writings webpage. In fact the two genres inter-relate, as exhibited by both my most important prose book, The Road to 9/11, and my most important book of poetry, Minding the Darkness.
Biography
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor
at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer,
and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the
poet
F.R. Scott and the painter
Marian Scott. He is married
to
Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children,
Cassie,
Mika,
and
John Scott, by a previous marriage to
Maylie Marshall.
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His prose books include The War Conspiracy
(1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration,
1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate
Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration,
1987),
Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central
America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998),
Deep Politics and
the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two
(1994, 1995, 2006),
Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003),
The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008).
His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy
Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About
Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse
(1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000. In addition he has published
Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994), published in Canada as Murmur of the Stars. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award. A new book of poems, Mosaic Orpheus, will appear in Spring 2009 from McGill-Queen's University Press.
An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he
was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at
UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations
(COPA).
His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research,
the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their
impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to
the John F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic.
The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p.
335) that "Coming to Jakarta is the most important
political poem to appear in the English language in a very long
time."
If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from
you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com.
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