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Gregory Donovan

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Born

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, The United States

Website

http://www.gregoryedonovan.com

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Influences

Jorge Luis Borges, Wallace Stevens, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Norman Dub ...more

Member Since

December 2007

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Gregory Donovan has authored the poetry collections TORN FROM THE SUN, newly published by Red Hen Press, and CALLING HIS CHILDREN HOME, winner of the Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press, as well as poetry, essays, and fiction published in a great variety of print and online journals. Born in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas and raised by adoptive parents in St. Louis, Missouri, he later attended the University of Missouri, Columbia. After college, he lived and worked in North Carolina for some years before going on to earn an M.A. at the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University where his dissertation director was the novelist John Gardner. Donovan now teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Virginia Commo ...more

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	Torn from the Sun 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling His Children Home: Poems 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prismatics: Larry Levis & Contemporary American Poetry by Gregory Donovan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michele Poulos (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Millenial countdown, or, Church 102: A look at the plan of Jesus Christ for his coming in glory 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Eminently readable as well as vivid and exciting. Eminently readable as well as vivid and exciting, this translation delivers Homer and the wily hero Odysseus with energy and clarity.
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