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Rigsbee, David E. was born on April 1, 1949 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Earl Hickman and Geneva (Odom) Rigsbee.
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"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."―Randall Jarrell The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published.
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This newly revised edition contains the most up to date versions of poems from David's first five volumes of poetry: Songs for Coming Home, Where Many Rivers Meet, Fire in the Earth, The House of Belonging and Everything is Waiting for You, as well as the latest versions of the new poems that originally appeared in the first edition of River Flow.
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Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn’s six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn’s searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahn’s status as one of the most inventive, passionate, and ambitious figures of his generation.
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Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn’s six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn’s searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahn’s status as one of the most inventive, passionate, and ambitious figures of his generation.
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( Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of ...)
Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn’s six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn’s searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahn’s status as one of the most inventive, passionate, and ambitious figures of his generation.
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Rigsbee, David E. was born on April 1, 1949 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Son of Earl Hickman and Geneva (Odom) Rigsbee.
Bachelor, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1972. Master of Arts, Hollins College, 1991.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1995.
English instructor Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1972-1976, University North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1978-1982, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1982-1986, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, 1987-1992. Professor English, chair department language and literature Mount Olive College, North Carolina, since 1995. Visiting associate professor St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, 1986-1987.
Visiting professor, director creative writing Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1992-1995. Director St. Andrews Press, Laurinburg, 1986-1987. Consultant Ardis Publications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1974-1977.
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( Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of ...)
( Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of ...)
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(Poetry Chapbook 5x8 1/2 saddle-stitched.)
(Poetry Chapbook 5x8 1/2 saddle-stitched.)
Author: (poetry) A Skeptic's Notebook: Longer Poems, 1997, Scenes on an Obelisk, 2000, Greatest Hits: 1975-2000. The Dissolving Island, 2003, Sonnets to Hamlet, 2004, selected poems, 2005. Co-editor: Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry, 2001.
(criticism) Styles of Ruin: Joseph Brodsky and the Postmodernist Elegy, 1999, (nonfiction) Trailers, 1996.
Member: County of York Law Association. Canadian Bar Association.
Married Doris Francine Low, October 7, 1978 (divorced July 1984). Married Jill Bullitt, July 28, 1995. 1 child, Makaiya.