Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Aldon Lynn Nielsen (born 1948 Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American poet.
Life
Born to a recently-off-the-farm and middle-class family, Nielsen soon exhibited a proclivity for the coastal extremes. Following a family move to the nation' s capital, Nielsen spent the better part of three decades in the District of Columbia, where he graduated from the Federal City College and from the George Washington University, with a Ph.D. He taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University. He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University. [1]
He lives in Pennsylvania and California, where his wife, Anna Everett, teaches at U.C. Santa Barbara.
Awards
- Larry Neal Award for poetry
- two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation.
- SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race
- Josephine Miles Award, for Every Goodbye Ain' t Gone
Works
Poetry
- Heat Strings
- Evacuation Routes, Score, 1994
- Stepping Razor. Edge Books. 1997. ISBN 9780961909796.
- VEXT. Sink Press. 1999. ISBN 9780962380655.
- Mixage. Zasterle. 2005. ISBN 9788487467431.
Criticism
- Reading race: white American poets and the racial discourse in the twentieth century. University of Georgia Press. 1990. ISBN 9780820312736. (reprint)
- Black Chant and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. Cambridge University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780521555265.
- C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction. University Press of Mississippi. 1997. ISBN 9780878059737.
- Lorenzo Thomas (2008). Aldon Lynn Nielsen (ed.). Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472068920.
- Reading race in American poetry: an area of act. University of Illinois Press. 2000. ISBN 9780252068324.
- Writing between the Lines
- "Oulipian Poetry". An exaltation of forms: contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art. University of Michigan Press. 2002. ISBN 9780472067251.
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Anthologies
- Best American Poems anthology. Macmillan. 1988. ISBN 9780020441816.
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