Ralph Angel
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Ralph Angel (born 1951) is an American poet and translator. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Angel attended inner-city public schools there, then worked on freight trains for the Union Pacific Railroad as he earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Washington. Later he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine.[1]
He is an Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Angel also was the featured poet of the Spring 2005 issue of Poetry Magazine.[2]
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[edit] Books
- 1986 — Anxious Latitudes (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press)
- 1995 — Neither World (Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press), winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets
- 2001 — Twice Removed, (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books), nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards
- 2006 Translator of Federico Garcia Lorca, Poem of the Deep Song, winner of the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize
- 2006 — Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books)
[edit] Awards and honors
- 2007 PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry for "Exceptions and Melancholies"
- Pushcart Prize
- An award from the Fulbright Foundation
- An award from The Modern Poetry Association
- A gift from the Elgin Cox Trust
- His "Shadow Play" (which originally appeared in Poetry) was included in The Best American Poetry 1988
- Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, 2003[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1]Green Integer Web site, Web page titled "PIP Biographies: Ralph Angel: 1951", accessed January 21, 2006
- ^ a b [2]Web page titled "Ralph Angel" at the Poetry Magazine Web site
[edit] External links
- [3]Biographical sketch at Poets.org Web site of the Academy of American Poets
- Poetry online
- [4] At Poetry magazine Web site:
- "Breaking and Entering"
- "In Every Direction"
- "It takes a while to disappear"
- "Man in a Window"
- "Tiny"
- Reviews
- [5] Review of Twice Removed by Ethan Paquin in Jacket
