Lawrence Raab

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Nationality American Known for American poetry		Name Lawrence Raab Role Poet

Born 1946 (age 68–69) Pittsfield, Massachusetts Education Syracuse University (1972), Middlebury College (1968) Awards National Poetry Series, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books What We Don't Know About Ea, The History of Forgetting, The Probable World, Visible Signs: New and Sele, A Cup of Water Turns Into

The Collected Poets Series: Lawrence Raab, April 1, 2010 (Part 2)

Lawrence Raab (born 1946, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.

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Life

He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972. He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Awards

1992 National Poetry Series, for What we don't know about each other

2007 Guggenheim Fellowship

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

Lawrence Raab Wikipedia

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