Background
Enslin, Theodore Vernon was born on March 25, 1925 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morton Scott and Ruth May (Tuttle).
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Poetry. Ted is a composer -- he always has been. Perhaps only a Bunting can fully appreciate how words compose words and discover beyond meaning harmonies, as here. Here is the best poetic company. Listen to your own tongue and share -- Cid Corman. These poems present themselves, like a gift. They will pick you up and take you somewhere, so be careful if you think you know it all. Art ever did this. The conservator knows -- Martha King. Melopoeia, meet your maker! SEQUENTIAE is vintage Enslin: acute and resonant, an experience of the song and from the song -- Mark Nowak. Among Theodore Enslin's many books are CONVERSATION (Poetry New York) and THEN, AND NOW: SELECTED POETRY just out from the National Poetry Foundation. SEQUENTIAE includes drawings by Basil King.
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(This book contains the poem "The Diabelli Variations" and...)
This book contains the poem "The Diabelli Variations" and selections from the authors previous works, "The Work Proposed, "This Do", "The Talents"' "Characters In Certain Places", "Kindness", and "2/30-6/31".
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(Poetry. Edited and with an interview of the author by Mar...)
Poetry. Edited and with an interview of the author by Mark Nowak. With excerpts from or entire republications of 24 of Theodore Enslin's books spanning 50 years of writing, this volume provides an outstanding portrait of a life dedicated to poetry, through the poetry itself. "Seldom does Enslin use or recall nature as a metaphor; what he usually does is walk through it. He knows it in the way that the city dweller might know the city...For me this is the central and unique power of Theodore Enslin's poetry: he continues to try to articulate clearly those things that are the very ground of human experience"--Toby Olson. "Quiet revolves in the tick of a clock / not the time arbitrary / it releases into something / else the actual / it dies away. (from Part Songs, 1987) The poems are delightful, the interview informative, the book a must for anyone interested in Enslin.
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Enslin, Theodore Vernon was born on March 25, 1925 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morton Scott and Ruth May (Tuttle).
He studied musical composition at Cambridge, Massachusetts. His teacher, Nadia Boulanger, was the first person to recognize his ability as a writer and encouraged him to pursue his interest in poetry.
He is widely regarded as one of the most musical of American avant-garde poets. He has said "I like to be considered as a composer who happens to use words instead of notes." His first book, The Work Proposed, was published by Origin in 1958. Enslin moved to Maine in 1960 and has lived in Washington County ever since, working at odd jobs and making and selling handmade walking sticks.
The Maine landscape forms an integral part of his poetry, as does the isolation, both geographic and in terms of distance from literary fashion and the academy his life on the physical margin of the United States allows.
Ranger 1978 is one of the key American long poems of the second half of the 20th century. He died in Milbridge, Maine on November 21, 2011.
The Theordore Enslin Papers are housed in the Fales Library at New York University.
(This book contains the poem "The Diabelli Variations" and...)
(Poetry. Ted is a composer -- he always has been. Perhaps ...)
(Poetry. Edited and with an interview of the author by Mar...)
Quotations: "I like to be considered as a composer who happens to use words instead of notes.".
Member American Foundation for Homoeopathy.
Married Mildred Marie Stout, August 1, 1945 (divorced). Children– Deirdre, Jonathan Morton. Married Alison Jane Jose, September 14.
1969; 1 son, Jacob Hezekiah.