Linda Gregerson

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Linda Gregerson


Born
in The United States
August 05, 1950

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Linda Gregerson is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan. She recieved her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Linda Gregerson is the author of several collections of poetry and literary criticism. Also a Renaissance scholar, a classically trained actor, and a devotee of the sciences, she produces lyrical poems informed by her expansive reading that are inquisitive, unflinching, and tender.

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Waterborne
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist for The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
National Book Award finalist for Manetic North

Average rating: 3.86 · 795 ratings · 117 reviews · 22 distinct worksSimilar authors
Prodigal: New and Selected ...

4.05 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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Magnetic North

3.64 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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Canopy: Poems – Powerful Po...

3.69 avg rating — 108 ratings8 editions
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The Woman Who Died In Her S...

4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Waterborne: Poems – Examini...

3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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The Selvage: Poems

3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Negative Capability: Contem...

4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Fire in the Conservatory: P...

3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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Машини за дишане

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The Reformation of the Subj...

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“...the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake."
A History Play,Waterborne
Linda Gregerson

“He didn't say, Uncluttered

is the privilege of the rich these days.
Or: In
a world of built-in obsolescence, saved

means saddled with.”
Linda Gregerson, The Woman Who Died In Her Sleep: Devotional Poems Celebrating Mortality, Beauty, and the Human Spirit―High Art with Gravity



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