Lawrence Raab Explained
Lawrence Raab |
Birth Place: | 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
Poetry collection
- Book: Mysteries of the Horizon. Doubleday. 1974.
- Book: The collector of cold weather. Ecco Press. 1976. 978-0-912946-32-0.
- Book: Other children: poems. registration. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1987 .
- Book: What we don't know about each other. Penguin Books. 1993. 978-0-14-058701-2.
- Book: The probable world. Penguin. 2000. 978-0-14-058921-4.
- Book: Winter at the Caspian Sea (with Stephen Dunn). Palanquin Press. 2002. 1-891508-24-5.
- Book: Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems. Tandem Library. 2003. 978-1-4177-0463-7 .
- Book: The History of Forgetting . Penguin Group. 2009. 978-0-14-311582-3 .
- Book: A Cup of Water Turns into a Rose. Adastra Press. 2012. 978-0-9838-2384-1 .
- Book: Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts. Tupelo Press, Inc.. 2015. 978-1-9367-9765-3 .
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.williams.edu/English/people/faculty/LRaab.php Profile
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5543 Poetry Foundation profile
- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/lawrence_raab/search?contributorName=lawrence%20raab New Yorker listing
- http://www.vqronline.org/author/2617/lawrence-raab/ Virginia Quarterly Review
- http://www.pw.org/content/lawrence_raab Profile
- http://www.gf.org/fellows/11882-lawrence-raab Guggenheim Fellowship profile