The Other

Robert Dana was born in Boston in 1929. After serving in the South Pacific at the end of World War II, he moved to Iowa where he attended Drake University and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poetry has won several awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. Retired from teaching after forty years as Poet-in-Residence at Cornell College, he has also served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Stockholm University and at several American colleges and universities. His earlier books include What I Think I Know: New and Selected Poems; Yes, Everything; Hello, Stranger; and Summer.His most recent title from Anhinga Press is The Morning of the Red Admirals.Recently, Dana was named Poet Laureate for the state of Iowa.Pif Magazine featured an interview with Robert Dana in its August 2007 issue.--Anhinga Press website

出版者:Anhinga Press

作者:Robert Dana

页数:81

出版时间:December 2008

价格:$22.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781934695074

图书标签:詩歌Robert_Dana

This is a book about the edgy beauty of our world right now. Its subject is the world's "terrible unfamiliarity" and one more instance of Dana's life-long quest for a language accurate enough to reckon the days we live in.

--R.M. Ryan