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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.
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
(from JFKLancer, 1995), and
Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003)
Click here to read the Preface to this
book. (I am often asked about the availability of my out-of-print War Conspiracy; the five most relevant chapters are reprinted in this book.)
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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). In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award.
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."
A Note to Visitors:
My book, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, (University of California Press., 2007), is now available in bookstores, or (if there is no bookstore near you) from
Amazon.cpm. Inquiries about acquiring foreign rights should be addressed to myself at pdscottweb@hotmail.com, or my agent, Victoria Shoemaker, at victoria@spieleragency.com.
A Note to Visitors, July 24, 2000:
I want to thank those who have visited either the prose or the poetry
sections of my website. I would also like to invite both groups of
readers to check out what I have posted about my new book, Minding the
Darkness, which appeared in October 2000 from New Directions.
Rightly or wrongly, I believe Minding the Darkness to be my most important
book. It is certainly the book on which I have worked the longest,
having begun it in 1990. Working on it helped me refine my thinking
about the central notions of Deep Politics, as I mention in passing on p. 22
of that book.
Click here to learn more about Minding
the Darkness.
Those interested in my writings on
drugs in particular should look at the option
From IV.i
which concerns the Fed, the CIA, and the role of drug-trafficking in
diminishing balance-of-payments crises. (I read from this section in my
speech on drugs and the CIA
at the June 2000 CIA Drugs Symposium that was broadcast over Alternative
Radio and NPR in December 2000.)
Click here for a brief
summary of how my poem handles the current 9/11 crisis of "secular
capitalism...facing the theocratic alternative of shariah and jihad"
(p. 240).
If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from
you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com.
Please click here if you have written to me and failed to receive a reply.
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