Lawrence Raab
American poet
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| Intro | American poet | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Poet | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | Pittsfield |
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Biography
Lawrence Raab (born 1946, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
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.