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Peter Davison

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June 27, 1928 in New York, New York, The United States

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December 29, 2004

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Peter Davison was an American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher.

Davison worked as an editor at the Atlantic Monthly Press and Houghton Mifflin. He was also poetry editor for Atlantic Monthly. He was part of a literary milieu that included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall.

In 1963, his first book of poetry, Breaking of the Day, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Dudley Fitts.

Breathing Room won the Massachusetts Book Award.

Among the authors Davison edited were Ward Just, Farley Mowat, William Least Heat-Moon, and Robert Coles.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 32 ratings · 4 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Breathing Room: Poems 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Praying wrong: New and selected poems, 1957-1984 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Poems of Peter Davison 1957-1995 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Breaking Of The Day And Other Poems 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	The Great Ledge 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1989	My rating:
	Walking The Boundaries: Poems, 1957 1974 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of Poetry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Voice In The Mountain: Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Barn Fever And Other Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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