Background
Bronk, William was born on February 17, 1918 in Fort Edward, New York, United States. Son of William M. and Ethel Elizabeth (Funston) Bronk.
(Poetry. LIVING INSTEAD was published by North Point Press...)
Poetry. LIVING INSTEAD was published by North Point Press in 1991 and is now available from Talisman House and from SPD. William Bronk has been called one of America's greatest living poets (Compound Eye). The way Columbus or someone earlier/ came to a place to be called a New World/ though not more new than the old world was/ --there all along and people living there--/ is like the way a poem is come upon:/ you think there's something there, go see what. (from Exploration).
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(Poetry. "Bronk's surgical turn of mind and resultant brev...)
Poetry. "Bronk's surgical turn of mind and resultant brevity imbue his poems with a speed and agility that cut to the core of knotty matters. His rare gift is the ability to float difficult truths on fleeting snatches of spoken breath."—the Village Voice Literary Supplement
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(Poetry. "With his third collection in three years, Bronk ...)
Poetry. "With his third collection in three years, Bronk is at his philosophical best. Like his previous work, these brief, highly spiritual poems probe the nature (or inanity) of life, and how speech plays a role in shaping what man thinks he is. But, whereas most poets are obsessed with finding the proper names for objects within their range of vision, these poems imply that, since the meanings of words are subject to change over time, any name will do. What matters is action; man alone has the ability not only to move, but to choose his movements, to create. 'To be is the verb to be. The noun pretends.' An English teacher's nightmare, these minimalist poems string together verbs and adverbs, seldom in anything approximating what we usually think of as a sentence. Nouns are often abstract and always general--'truth,' 'sadnesses,' 'poverty,' 'devotion'--yet in the hands of this literary descendant of Louis Zukofsky and the other Objectivist poets, no poem lacks specificity. For the first time in Bronk's work, pronouns include more than the speaker; 'we,' 'us' and 'you' predominate, while the 'I' is 'inanimate, marked for discard.' The fact that Bronk is now 75 years old gives words such as these additional credence"--Publishers Weekly.
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Bronk, William was born on February 17, 1918 in Fort Edward, New York, United States. Son of William M. and Ethel Elizabeth (Funston) Bronk.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1938.
(First edition Peich 66 . A collection of poems by William...)
(Book by Bronk, William)
(Book by Bronk, William)
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(Poetry. LIVING INSTEAD was published by North Point Press...)
(Poetry. "Bronk's surgical turn of mind and resultant brev...)
(Poetry. "With his third collection in three years, Bronk ...)
Served to First lieutenant Army of the United States, 1941-1945.