Background
McPherson, Sandra Jean was born on August 2, 1943 in San Jose, California, United States.
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Elegies for the Hot Season
(Her first book of poems and winner of the Association Of ...)
Her first book of poems and winner of the Association Of American Universities Presses' Award for the National Council on the Arts Selection in poetry.
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Elegies for A Hot Season
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The Year of Our Birth (Amer Poetry Ser.;No.15)
(Volume 15 of The Ecco Press' The American Poetry Series.)
Volume 15 of The Ecco Press' The American Poetry Series.
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Patron Happiness (American Poetry Series)
(1983 paperback. Excellent condition. Book lies flat. Spin...)
1983 paperback. Excellent condition. Book lies flat. Spine tight. Pages clean and bright.
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The God of Indeterminacy: POEMS (National Poetry)
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[(The God of Indeterminacy: Poems)] [Author: Sandra McPherson] published on (April, 1993)
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Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to d...)
Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to date. Constructed in two parts, the collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. Throughout, waves from one poem mark the shores of others. In natural history, an edge effect occurs where two communities, such as land and sea, overlap, that zone becoming more diversified than each of them. McPherson explores this effect in nature and art, questioning our notions of inside and outside, center and margin. Profound and moving, she recasts the very premises of formal understanding in poetry, accommodating at once the arts of nature and the nature of art.
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A Visit to Civilization (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(This extraordinary poetic voyage uses explorations of the...)
This extraordinary poetic voyage uses explorations of the material culture of our past and present as points of departure. Sandra McPherson succeeds in drawing us into her examination of objects from the 20th and late 19th centuries through her weaving together of images both familiar and startling into deeply satisfying poems. She is especially interested in articles that might seem useless, extinct, or “irrelevant” to us now, such as children’s military playthings, diaries and scrapbooks of unknown and unfamous people, quilts from people of Mennonite and Amish convictions, “primitive” utilitarian wooden objects, telegrams and curious photographs. These poems are characteristically simple and unadorned, bringing readers closer and closer to a physical world we often overlook, but which is filled with sensation and meaning. From traditional stanzaic poems to collages and prose ghazals, the author embraces “civilization” by visiting the spirit of the secret voices of its people.
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The Year of Our Birth
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Streamers (American Poetry Series)
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Sandra Jean McPherson
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor in English, San Jose State University, California, 1965. Postgraduate, University Washington, 1966.
Career
Visiting lecturer University Iowa Writers Workshop, 1974-1976, 78-80. Holloway lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1981. Teacher poetry workshop Oregon Writers Workshop, Portland, 1981-1985.
Professor English University California, Davis, since 1985. Editor public Swan Scythe Press.
Achievements
Works
book
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Elegies for the Hot Season
(Her first book of poems and winner of the Association Of ...)
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A Visit to Civilization (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(This extraordinary poetic voyage uses explorations of the...)
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Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to d...)
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The Year of Our Birth (Amer Poetry Ser.;No.15)
(Volume 15 of The Ecco Press' The American Poetry Series.)
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Patron Happiness (American Poetry Series)
(1983 paperback. Excellent condition. Book lies flat. Spin...)
- Elegies for A Hot Season
- Elegies for the Hot Season Edition
- The God of Indeterminacy: POEMS (National Poetry)
- [(The God of Indeterminacy: Poems)] [Author: Sandra McPherson] published on (April, 1993)
- EDGE EFFECT Trails and Portrayals A Volume in Wesleyan Poetry Series
- The Year of Our Birth
- Streamers (American Poetry Series)
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Elegies for the Hot Season
Other Work
Interests
Connections
Daughter of John Emmet and Joyce (Turney) Todd, Walter James and Frances K. (Gibson) McPherson. Married Henry D. Carlile, 1966 (divorced 1985). 1 child Phoebe; Married Walter D. Pavlich, 1995 (deceased 2002).
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1965
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1966
Career
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1974 - 1976
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1981
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1981 - 1985
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1985
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Recipient National Endowment for the Arts awards. Award in literature American Academy.and Institute Arts and Letters, 1987. Ingram Merrill Foundation fellow. Grantee Guggenheim Foundation, 1976, Oregon Arts Commission, 1984-1985.Recipient National Endowment for the Arts awards. Award in literature American Academy.and Institute Arts and Letters, 1987. Ingram Merrill Foundation fellow.
Grantee Guggenheim Foundation, 1976, Oregon Arts Commission, 1984-1985.