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Name
Michael Burkard
Role
Poet
Education
University of Iowa (1973), Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Awards
Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Books
Lucky Coat Anywhere: Poems, Envelope of night, Unsleeping: Poems, My secret boat, Entire dilemma
Envelope of night: selected and uncollected poems, 1966-1990. Nightboat Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9767185-6-7.
Unsleeping. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN 978-1-889330-53-2.
Pennsylvania Collection Agency. New Issues/Western Michigan University. 2001. ISBN 978-1-930974-00-5.
Entire Dilemma. Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 978-1-889330-18-1.
My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-30748-1.
Fictions from the Self. W. W. Norton & Company. 1989. ISBN 978-0-393-30568-5.
Ruby for Grief. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8229-3450-9.
The Fires They Kept. Los Angeles: Metro Book Co. 1986. ISBN 978-0-915371-03-7.
In a white light: poems. L'Epervier Press. 1977. ISBN 0-934834-72-5.
Anthologies
Robert Hass, David Lehman, eds. (2001). "Notes About My Face". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0384-5.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Ploughshares
"Pentimento". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
"The Family". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
"Mornings Like a Vase". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
"Side with Stars". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 17 July 2002.
"Star for a Glass". Ploughshares. Spring 1985.
"The World at Dusk". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
"Little Final Sunlight". Ploughshares. Winter 1986.
"Too Many Drops". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007.
"Moon's Rule". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.
"The Summer of the Thief". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
"The Brothers". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on June 30, 2007.
Reviews
Michael Burkard's latest book — full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets — is similarly lingering and resonant. Fifteen years passed between the writing of the poems that became Pennsylvania Collection Agency and their publication as a cohesive collection by New Issues, yet they're not dated.