William Logan (poet)

William Logan
Born	1950
Nationality	United States
Fields	Poetry
Institutions	University of Florida
Alma mater	Yale University University of Iowa

William Logan (born 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar.

Life

Logan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his wife, the poet and artist, Debora Greger. Educated at Yale (BA, 1972) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa (MFA, 1975), he has authored eight books of poetry as well as five books of criticism. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. Logan's poetry reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review. Many of these reviews have been quite controversial, leading Slate magazine to call him "the most hated man in American poetry . . .[and] its guiltiest pleasure". In addition to criticism, Logan has been praised by many such as Richard Tillinghast (The New York Times Book Review) who recognizes him as an "accomplished and original poet...Logan writes with vigor, almost classical restraint and a fine sense of musicality".

Awards

• National Book Critics Circle award for criticism
• Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle
• Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets
• John Masefield and Celia B. Wagner Awards from the Poetry Society of America
• J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry
• John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
• Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Bibliography

Poetry

• "Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929", Poetry Foundation
• "from Punchinello in Chains: VI. Punchinello Dreams of Escape", Poetry Foundation
• "The Other Place", Poetry, April 2005
• "To a Wedding", Poetry, November 2008

• Sad-faced Men (1982)
• Difficulty (1985)
• Sullen Weedy Lakes (1988)
• Vain Empires (1998), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Night Battle (1999)
• Macbeth in Venice (2003)
• The Whispering Gallery (2005)
• Strange Flesh (2008)

Criticism

• All the Rage (1998)
• Reputations of the Tongue (1999)
• Desperate Measures (2002)
• The Undiscovered Country (2005)
• Our Savage Art (2009)

External links

• University of Florida Biography
• Logan's review of The Oxford Book of American Poetry in The New York Times, April 16, 2006
• Review of Geoffrey Hill