Background
Thomas, Franklin Richard was born on August 1, 1940 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Franklin Albert and Lydia Elizabeth (Klausmeier) Thomas.
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Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz
( F. Richard Thomas argues convincingly that Alfred Stieg...)
F. Richard Thomas argues convincingly that Alfred Stieglitz wielded an extraordinary influence on the works of such literary figures as Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Sherwood Anderson, and William Carlos Williams. The implications of his argument bear not only on the aesthetics, styles, and perceptions of these major American literary figures but on the progress of contemporary photography as well. The four writers Thomas studies here all used aspects of photography in their individual aesthetics and enriched their styles through selective focus on personally significant detail. Each one isolated events to reveal ideas in an impressionistic way. Plot and narration gave way to associative coherence; feelings were conveyed by revealing relationships that existed among objects within the writer’s frame. In their lives as well as in their art, they came to subscribe to a philosophy based on the immediate and the actual.
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Death at Camp Pahoka
( The power of an individual poet's work depends upon in...)
The power of an individual poet's work depends upon intensity of vision. With the subjects he has chosen to write about in Death at Camp Pahoka—science, spirituality/religion, sexuality, family, and community—F. Richard Thomas is clearly obsessed. Focusing on the richness of language and content, his poems are at once accessible, yet profound. Additionally, all of the poems, while grounded in the "real" and the "physical," have a metaphysical twist to them. At their best, they cannot be read without the reader being momentarily lifted up and out of the physical world into wonder. This collection is one that reveals the beauty, joy, and pain of daily life, a fascinating life rich in uncertainty and chaos, a life that presents an unlimited number of situations on which the metaphysical light of poetry can be cast.
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Franklin Richard Thomas
Edit Profilewriter American studies and language educator
Education
AB, Purdue University, 1963. Master of Arts, Purdue University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1970.
Career
Assistant professor, Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana, 1969-1971; assistant professor American thought and language, Michigan State University, East Lansing, since 1971; associate professor American thought and language, Michigan State University, East Lansing professor American thought and language, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Editor, public Years Press, East Lansing, since 1973.
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Death at Camp Pahoka
( The power of an individual poet's work depends upon in...)
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Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz
( F. Richard Thomas argues convincingly that Alfred Stieg...)
- Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz by F. Richard Thomas (1983-06-01)
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Death at Camp Pahoka
Connections
Married Sharon Kay Myers, June 2, 1962. Children: Severn Rhyl, Caerllion.
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American
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1963
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1970