Background
Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
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SLEEP AND DEATH THE DREAM
( The poems in this book travel with us up to the door of...)
The poems in this book travel with us up to the door of another life. They are clear and radiant with the fulfillment of having lived a life, loving and being loved. There are hands bathing babies, there is the kiss of the lover; there is plywood and good food. Life becomes its most minute details and yet, opens out into some larger realm. These poems create astonishment. It is with these poems, that Benjamin Saltman has left us. These poems will become for our culture, part of the canon, part of our breath, part of what and who we think of and remember best when we place our faces in our hands, feel our mortality and look up at "a white astonished sun still waiting to speak."
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Benjamin Saltman
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Education
In 1967 He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School where he wrote his doctoral thesis "The Descent to God: Religious Language in Several Contemporary American Poets".
Career
The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is given annually by Red Hen Press in his honor. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952 and his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1959. Miriam, Lara, and Marjorie Saltman.
Benjamin Saltman was the recipient of two National Education Association Literature Fellowships in 1969 and 1987.
In 1992, after retiring, he volunteered to teach at CSUN for free after state budget cuts caused the school to cancel 1,000 courses previously scheduled for the fall semester.
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SLEEP AND DEATH THE DREAM
( The poems in this book travel with us up to the door of...)
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