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Waters¿s 13th collection delves into aging, caretaking, the shifting landscape of modern marriage, and the slippery nature of familial memory.
A propos de l'auteur
Michael Waters is the author of twelve previous books of poems & editor/co-editor of six anthologies, including
Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). His recent books include
The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
Celestial Joyride (BOA Editions, 2016) & the anthologies
Border Lines (Knopf, 2020) &
Reel Verse (Knopf, 2019). His book
Darling Vulgarity (BOA, 2006) was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize &
Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2006) was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including
Poetry, Paris Review, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Rolling Stone &
American Poetry Review. He has taught at Ohio University, Salisbury University (MD), Bucknell University (PA), Monmouth University (NJ) & The University of Athens (Greece). Widely traveled, he has spent time in numerous countries, including Romania, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Iraq, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Tobago, Czech Republic, Nicaragua, Turkey & Belize. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow & 2007 Fulbright Fellow, recipient of five Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & NJ State Council on the Arts, & residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), St. James Cavaliere Centre (Malta) & Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland), Waters lives without a cell phone in Ocean, NJ with poet & translator Mihaela Moscaliuc.
Résumé
Waters’s 13th collection delves into aging, caretaking, the shifting landscape of modern marriage, and the slippery nature of familial memory.
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