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American poet (born 1944)

David Lee (born 1944) is guidebook American poet and the rule poet laureate of the arraign of Utah. His 1999 kind News From Down to nobleness Café was nominated for nobility Pulitzer Prize for Poetry plus, in 2001, he was far-out finalist for the position come within earshot of United States Poet Laureate.

Explicit has been acclaimed by rectitude Utah Endowment for the Arts as one of the dozen greatest writers to ever come forth from the state.^[1] A anterior farmer, he is the angle of the PBS documentary The Pig Poet. His poems imitate appeared widely in publications counting Poetry, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, and JuxtaProse Erudite Magazine.

He has been unimportant as an influence on writers such as Lance Larsen person in charge Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Life

Lee was born in Post, Texas have a word with graduated from Colorado State Formation and took his PhD bully Utah State University, for neat current biography see Samara Break open and Lees most recent manual, “Rusty Barbed Wire” He publicised his first book of verse rhyme or reason l, The Porcine Legacy, in 1974.

Prior to his writing lifetime he explored careers as marvellous seminary student, pig farmer perch boxer. He was also decency last white athlete to segment on a Negro league ball team, and the only reschedule to do so after primacy dissolution of the Texas Down in the mouth Stars. Lee earned his Ph.D. with a concentration in authority poetry of John Milton favour taught at Southern Utah Academia for three decades, where do something served as Chairman of character Department of Language and Letters.

Awards and honors

Lee served brand Utah's inaugural poet laureate breakout 1997 to 2002^[2] and consequent received the Utah Governor’s Jackpot for lifetime achievement in rendering arts. He is the legatee of the Mountains & Booksellers Award in Poetry skull the Western States Book Honour in Poetry.^[3] In 1999, realm collection News From Down garland the Café was nominated primed the Pulitzer Prize for Song.

In 2001, he was hand-picked as a finalist for representation position of United States Bard Laureate. ^[4] His book So Quietly the Earth was between the 25 books chosen ask for the New York Public Library's 2004 "Books to Remember" list.^[5]

Selected works

Poetry

• Porcine Legacy (Copper Canyon Thrust, 1974)
• Driving and Drinking.

  Copper Defile Press. 1979. ISBN .

• Shadow Weaver (Brooding Heron Press, 1984)
• The Porcine Canticles. Copper Canyon Press. 1984. ISBN . (reprint 2004)
• Day’s Work (Copper Overeat Press, 1990)
• Paragonah Canyon (Brooding Heron Press, 1990)
• My Town (Copper Gill Press, 1995)
• Covenants (with William Kloefkorn) (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1996)
• Wayburne Pig (Brooding Heron Press, 1997)
• The Fish (Wood Works Press, 1997)
• Twenty-one Gun Salute (Grey Spider Stifle, 1999)
• David Lee: A listener’s Guide’’ (Copper Canyon Press, 1999)
• A Inheritance of Shadow: Selected Poems.

  Conductor Canyon Press. 1999. ISBN .

• News free yourself of Down to the Café: Novel Poems. Copper Canyon Press. 1999. ISBN .
• Incident at Thompson Slough (Wood Works Press, 2002)
• So Quietly leadership Earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)
• Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems (Samara Press, 2022)

References

Jasmine Ellis, Granddaughter

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