Lawrence Raab
American poet
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Lawrence Raab (born 1946, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
Born1946 (age 79–80)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
KnownforAmerican poetry
Lawrence Raab | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Known for | American poetry |
Life
Raab graduated from Middlebury College in 1968, and from Syracuse University with an MA in 1972.[1] He taught at American University (1970 to 71), University of Michigan, and Williams College (1976 to present).[2] His work has appeared in The New Yorker [3] and the Virginia Quarterly Review.[4] He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.[5]
Awards
- 1992 National Poetry Series, for What we don't know about each other
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship[6]
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.