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Helen Chasin

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Helen Chasin
Born(1938-07-23)July 23, 1938
New York City, U.S.
DiedJune 10, 2015(2015-06-10) (aged 76)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Alma materMidwood High School
Radcliffe College

Helen S. Chasin (July 23, 1938 – June 10, 2015) was an American poet.[1]

Life

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Chasin grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

She attended Radcliffe College and studied with Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell,[2] and John Nims.[3] She taught at Emerson College, where Thomas Lux was her student.[4]

In 1973, she edited Iowa Review.[5]

Her work appeared in The Missouri Review.[6] New York Quarterly,[7] Paris Review,[8]

She lived in Rockport, Massachusetts.[9] She died June 10, 2015, in New York City.

Awards

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Works

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  • "Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe", Blue Ridge Journal
  • Casting Stones. Little, Brown. 1975. ISBN 978-0-316-13822-2.
  • Coming Close (Yale University Press, 1968) reprint. AMS Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-404-53863-7.
  • "The Word Plum"

Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ "HELEN CHASIN's Obituary". New York Times. June 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  2. ^ Laskin, David (2001). Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46893-8.
  3. ^ "AuthorBio".
  4. ^ "Details, Details", The Atlantic, Peter Swanson, December 8, 2004
  5. ^ Hamilton, David B. (1996). Hard Choices. ISBN 9780877455363.
  6. ^ "The Missouri Review".
  7. ^ "NYQ".
  8. ^ "The Paris Review - Spring-Summer 1978". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  9. ^ "Helen Chasin". 28 May 1981.
  10. ^ "Faculty, 1926-1993". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
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