Background
Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs, and earned a Bachelor of Arts at Ursinus College, an Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Houston.
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Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books) by Gregory Fraser (2014-04-10)
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Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books)
( Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exp...)
Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exploration of the rhythms of our emotional lives undertaken in Gregory Fraser’s first two collections. A master of metaphor, Fraser works magic within tightly controlled forms, loading lines with surprising juxtapositions and changes of direction. Taken together, the poems trace the sometimes instant, sometimes decades-long movement from incomprehensible loss and grief to rueful reflection and, if we’re lucky, uneasy accommodation. Casting a sharply observant eye on past selves, always steering clear of simple sentiment, the speaker in this collection looks back with bitter irony and forgiveness in equal measure. Against the fears and frustrations of childhood, the dissolution of a doomed relationship, and the distance between the hoped for and the actual, Fraser’s poems offer the imagination’s capacity for endless invention and the compensatory pleasures of art.
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Gregory Fraser
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Career
Gregory Fraser is an American poet, editor, and professor He is the author of three poetry collections,,, and, as well as the co-author, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares.
The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser teaches at the University of West Georgia, located an hour west of Atlanta, and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review.
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Achievements
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2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award Walt McDonald First Book Award Associated Writing Programs Award Houston Arts Council Literary Award.
Works
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Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books)
( Designed for Flight both continues and enlarges the exp...)
- Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books) by Gregory Fraser (2014-04-10)
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Designed for Flight: Poems (Triquarterly Books)
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Awards
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2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award Walt McDonald First Book Award Associated Writing Programs Award Houston Arts Council Literary Award2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award Walt McDonald First Book Award Associated Writing Programs Award Houston Arts Council Literary Award
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2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award Walt McDonald First Book Award Associated Writing Programs Award Houston Arts Council Literary Award2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award Walt McDonald First Book Award Associated Writing Programs Award Houston Arts Council Literary Award