Name Stephen Yenser Role Poet | Awards Walt Whitman Award | |
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Books A boundless field, The consuming myth, Fire in All Things, Circle to Circle Similar People James Merrill, J D McClatchy, Walt Whitman | ||
Stephen yenser on robinson jeffers
Stephen Yenser (born 1941 Wichita, Kansas) is an American poet and literary critic who has published two acclaimed volumes of verse, as well as books on James Merrill, Robert Lowell, and an assortment of contemporary poets. With J.D. McClatchy, he is co-literary executor of the James Merrill estate and co-editor of four volumes of Merrill's work.
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- Stephen yenser on robinson jeffers
- Reading by stephen yenser april 23 2015
- Life
- Awards
- Works
- Poetry
- Essays
- Editor
- Reviews
- References
Reading by stephen yenser april 23 2015
Life
Yenser graduated from the University of Wisconsin, studying with James Merrill in 1967 on one of the rare occasions when the poet taught. Merrill dedicated to Yenser his final, posthumous collection, A Scattering of Salts (1995).
Yenser is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, curating the Hammer Poetry Series at the Hammer Museum.
His work has appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, Southwest Review, Yale Review, "The New Yorker," and many other magazines. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
Awards
Works
Poetry
Essays
Editor
Reviews
About Yenser's work, the poet Alan Williamson has said, "Stephen Yenser combines two qualities rarely found together: an extraordinary gift for verbal play and a bedrock seriousness about the emotional aims of poetry. Consequently he can do things almost no one else can: a poem reproducing the modulations of music; a poem in a dead poet's style that becomes uniquely his own, through its meditation on intersubjectivity and immortality."