[1] Steven Serafin and Alfred Bendixen, The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (2003), page 432.
University: BA, Columbia University (1951)
University: MA, Columbia University (1952)
University: Sorbonne (studied 1952-53)
Professor: University of Cincinnati
Professor: English, University of Houston
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1970 for Untitled Subjects
American Book Award 1984 (translation of Les Fleurs du Mal)
Guggenheim Fellowship
The Paris Review Poetry Editor
The New Republic Poetry Editor
Author of books:
Quantities (1962, poetry)
The Damages (1967, poetry)
Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 (1969, criticism)
Untitled Subjects (1969, poetry)
Findings (1971, poetry)
Two-Part Inventions (1974, poetry)
Preferences (1974, criticism)
Fellow Feelings (1976, poetry)
Misgivings (1979, poetry)
Lining Up (1984, poetry)
No Traveller (1989, poetry)
Selected Poems (1991, poetry)
Like Most Revelations (1994, poetry)
Trappings (1999, poetry)
Talking Cures (2002, poetry)
Inner Voices (2004, poetry)
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