Background
Meinke, Peter was born on December 29, 1932 in Brooklyn. Son of Harry Frederick Meinke and Kathleen Dorothy (McDonald) Lewis.
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The Rat Poems Or, Rats Live on No Evil Star
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First edition. A Bits Chapbook. Printed wrappers lightly creased along the yapp edges. Not paginated. stiff paper wrappers.. small 8vo..
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Underneath the Lantern
(A book of poetry.)
A book of poetry.
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Trying to Surprise God (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Trying to Surprise God, Peter Meinke’s second book of poetry, is characterized by an unusual and masterful range of effects, and by Meinke’s unique wit and compassion.
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The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry
( Focusing on the foundations of poetry, this reference t...)
Focusing on the foundations of poetry, this reference teaches aspiring poets the mechanics of writing verse. Offering advice on the abstract poetic notions—what makes good poetry, the meaning and inspirations of poetry—and the concrete—how to start a poem, how to craft its shape, and how to use the various poetic forms—this concise and insightful book provides inspiring and practical instruction. Including the author's own poems for guidance, this revised edition also discusses the direction of post-millennium, contemporary poetry.
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Liquid Paper: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in the new formalism.” His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.
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Night Watch On The Chesapeake (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke’s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.
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The Piano Tuner: Stories
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In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening. In the title story, a writer's quiet existence amid his antiques and books is dismantled, piece by piece, by a demonic, beer-bellied piano tuner. In "The Ponoes," a man recalls how, as a young boy living in Brooklyn during World War II, he became a collaborationist in the brutal pranks of two Irish bullies. In "The Twisted River," the sedate collegiality of a Polish university is disrupted when an American on a Fulbright grant attempts to blackmail two faculty members. And in "The Bracelet," a young anthropology student doing field work in Africa finds herself drawn further and further into the role of a priestess of Oshun, into a life dictated by the configuration of cowry shells cast upon the floor. Meinke writes of a world where our control over our lives seldom exists across a border, and often extends no further than our fingertips. Attempts to bridge two cultures, two lives are sometimes successful, as when an actor finds love in the arms of a tough-talking barmaid, but more usually lead to disillusionment, as when a hard-drinking salesman's career is shattered after he is drunk under the table one night by a Polish engineer, or when an English father struggles to find common ground with his American son. Riveting, almost terrifying, the stories in The Piano Tuner tell of decent men and women caught in events that they could never have predicted, would never have chosen.
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The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing & Reading Poems
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A practical guide to writing and reading poems by an award-winning poet and teacher.
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The Night Train and the Golden Bird (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Although The Night Train and the Golden Bird is Peter Meinke’s first poetry collection, it is a seasoned performance—the result of careful deliberation and mature judgment—yet impetuous and exciting. It’s full of wit and humor tempered with the sadness of approaching middle-age, anguish over political and social injustice, and of the very failings of everyday people and their lives.
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Campocorto (Sow's ear)
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- Howard Nemerov - American Writers 70: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
- The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry (Focusing on the foundations of poetry, this reference tea...)
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Peter Meinke
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Peter Meinke, American writer, retired educator. Recipient Gustav Davidson award, 1976, Lucille Medwick award, 1984, Robert A. Staub Outstanding Teacher award Eckerd College, 1990, Emily Dickinson award, 1992, Paumanok Poetry award, 1993; creative writing fellow National Endowment for Arts, 1974, 89; named Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University Warsaw, 1978-1979; Master Artists's fellowship, 1995.
Education
AB, Hamilton College, 1955; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1965.
Career
Teacher Mountain Lakes (New Jersey) High School, 1958-1960. Instructor Hamline University, St. Paul, 1961-1966. Professor literature, director writing Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1966-1993.
Writer-in-residence Hamline University, St. Paul, 1974, George Washington University, Washington, 1981-1982, Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio, 1987, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1989, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1995. Writer-in-residence, visiting distinguished writer University Hawaii, 1993. Visiting distinguished writer University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1996, National Writer's Voice Project, Tampa, Florida, 1996.
Fellow Le Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland, 1998.
Achievements
Works
book
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The Piano Tuner: Stories
( In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignn...)
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The Night Train and the Golden Bird (Pitt Poetry Series)
( Although The Night Train and the Golden Bird is Peter M...)
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Trying to Surprise God (Pitt Poetry Series)
( Trying to Surprise God, Peter Meinke’s second book of p...)
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Liquid Paper: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
( Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms l...)
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The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry
( Focusing on the foundations of poetry, this reference t...)
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The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry
( Focusing on the foundations of poetry, this reference t...)
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The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing & Reading Poems
(A practical guide to writing and reading poems by an awar...)
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Night Watch On The Chesapeake (Pitt Poetry Series)
( Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke’s third c...)
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Howard Nemerov - American Writers 70: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
( Howard Nemerov - American Writers 70 was first publishe...)
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Howard Nemerov (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No. 70)
(Good/No Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Ex-Library no. 70 Un...)
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Underneath the Lantern
(A book of poetry.)
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The Rat Poems Or, Rats Live on No Evil Star
(First edition. A Bits Chapbook. Printed wrappers lightly ...)
- Howard Nemerov - American Writers 70: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
- Campocorto (Sow's ear)
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The Piano Tuner: Stories
Membership
With United States Army, 1955-1957. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Poetry Society of America, National Book Critics Circle.
Interests
Connections
Married Jeanne Clark, December 14, 1957. Children: Perrie Sue, Peter Thomas, Gretchen, Timothy Clark.
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Nationality
American
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1955
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1961
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1965
Career
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1958 - 1960
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1961 - 1966
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1966 - 1993
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1966 - 1993