Lawrence Raab
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Lawrence Raab | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
Nationality | American |
Known for | American poetry |
Lawrence Raab (born 1946, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
Life
Raab graduated from Middlebury College in 1968, and from Syracuse University with an MA in 1972.[1] He taught at American University (1970 to 71), University of Michigan, and Williams College (1976 to present).[2] His work has appeared in The New Yorker [3] and the Virginia Quarterly Review.[4] He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.[5]
Awards
- 1992 National Poetry Series, for What we don't know about each other
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship [6]
Poetry collection
- Mysteries of the Horizon. Doubleday. 1974.
- The collector of cold weather. Ecco Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-912946-32-0.
- Other children: poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1987.
- What we don't know about each other. Penguin Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0-14-058701-2.
- The probable world. Penguin. 2000. ISBN 978-0-14-058921-4.
- Winter at the Caspian Sea (with Stephen Dunn). Palanquin Press. 2002. ISBN 1-891508-24-5.
- Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems. Tandem Library. 2003. ISBN 978-1-4177-0463-7.
- The History of Forgetting. Penguin Group. 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-311582-3.
- A Cup of Water Turns into a Rose. Adastra Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9838-2384-1.
- Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts. Tupelo Press, Inc. 2015. ISBN 978-1-9367-9765-3.
References
- ^ Profile[permanent dead link]
- ^ Poetry Foundation profile
- ^ New Yorker listing
- ^ Virginia Quarterly Review Archived 2009-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Profile
- ^ Guggenheim Fellowship profile Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- "Marriage", Poetry, November 1990
- "Cold Spring", Poetry Foundation
- "Camouflage", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2003
- "Saint George’s Dragon", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2003
- "A Night’s Museum", Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1977
- Audio: Lawrence Raab reads Two Riddles from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
- A series of correspondence between poet Lawrence Raab and novelist Jonathan Baumbach for InDigest