Background
Root, William Pitt was born on December 28, 1941 in Austin, Minnesota, United States. Son of William Pitt and Bonita Joy (Hilbert) Root.
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Reasons for Going It on Foot
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As the title suggests, his new book explores territories, regions some of which are to be found on maps, local and foreign; some of which are found in moments of attention rather than places (the instant a salmon leaps); some of which are entered through human ("Sweat") or inhuman ("Answering Dance") rituals; some of which are discovered through those monuments of attention which are the works of an another's art; and some of which exist only in intimacy. There are landscapes, mindscapes, heartscapes in this very accomplished book, which bears strong evidence of the poet's preference for the natural world.
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Faultdancing (Pitt Poetry Series)
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Striking the dark air for music;: Poems
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Book by William Pitt Root
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Invisible Guests
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Coot and other characters: Poems new and familiar
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Book by Root, William Pitt
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The Storm and Other Poems (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
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A reissuing of The Storm and Other Poems by William Pitt Root.
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Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books
(This volume collects approximately 250 poems, selected an...)
This volume collects approximately 250 poems, selected and thematically reorganized from the poet's highly acclaimed first five books. Here are poems evoking landscapes from the Gulf of Mexico to La Push, heartscapes inhabited by day-laborers, waitresses, bikers,rioters, philologists, weight-lifters and magicians (men and women old and young, black, white, Native American); and here too are evocations exploring what's it's like to have been a son, and to be a father. All are performed on a keyboard ranging from the resonant bass notes of despair to the ringing upper registers of ecstasy and uncut joy. Whether Root is writing deeply personal or mythic poems, what emerges from the collection, whole and entire, has all the power, daring and beauty of an individual vision.
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William Pitt Root
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Education
Bachelor, University Washington, 1964. Master of Fine Arts, University North Carolina at Greensboro, 1967. Postgraduate, Stanford, 1969.
Career
Assistant professor Michigan State University, 1967-1968. Teacher writing Mid-peninsula Free University, 1969. Writer-in-residence Amherst College, University Southwestern Louisiana, 1976, University Montana, 1978, 80, 83-84.
With poet-in-schools program state art councils Oregon, Mississippi, Idaho, Arizona, Vermont, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Texas, since 1971. Distinguished writer-in-residence Wichita State University, 1976. Visiting writer in residence University Montana, 1978, 80, 83-86, Hunter College, New York City, since 1986.
Visiting writer New York University, 1986. Visiting writer Westside Young Men's Hebrew Association, New York City, 1988. Distinguished writer-in-residence Pacific Lutheran University, 1990.
Works
book
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Reasons for Going It on Foot
(As the title suggests, his new book explores territories,...)
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Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books
(This volume collects approximately 250 poems, selected an...)
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The Storm and Other Poems (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
(A reissuing of The Storm and Other Poems by William Pitt ...)
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Coot and other characters: Poems new and familiar
(Book by Root, William Pitt)
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Striking the dark air for music;: Poems
(Book by William Pitt Root)
- Fireclock
- Faultdancing (Pitt Poetry Series)
- Invisible Guests
- Storm & Other Poems 1ST Edition
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Reasons for Going It on Foot
Connections
Son of William Pitt and Bonita Joy (Hilbert) R. M. Judith Carol Bechtold, 1965 (divorced 1970). 1 daughter, Jennifer Lorca.
M. Pamela Uschuk, 1987.
Awards
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Rockefeller Foundation grantee, 1969-1970. Guggenheim Foundation grantee, 1970-1971. National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1973-1974. United States/United Kingdom Bicentennial Exchange Artist, 1978-1979, Wallace Stegner creative writing fellow Stanford University, 1968-1969. Recipient 1st prize university poetry contest Academy American Poets, 1966, Atlantic Young Poet award, 1967, Stanley Kunitz Poetry award, 1981, Guy Owen Poetry Prize, 1982, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), 1977, 1980, 1985. Named Poet Laureate of Tucson, 1997-2002.Rockefeller Foundation grantee, 1969-1970. Guggenheim Foundation grantee, 1970-1971. National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1973-1974.
United States/United Kingdom Bicentennial Exchange Artist, 1978-1979, Wallace Stegner creative writing fellow Stanford University, 1968-1969. Recipient 1st prize university poetry contest Academy American Poets, 1966, Atlantic Young Poet award, 1967, Stanley Kunitz Poetry award, 1981, Guy Owen Poetry Prize, 1982, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), 1977, 1980, 1985. Named Poet Laureate of Tucson, 1997-2002.
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Rockefeller Foundation grantee, 1969-1970. Guggenheim Foundation grantee, 1970-1971. National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1973-1974. United States/United Kingdom Bicentennial Exchange Artist, 1978-1979, Wallace Stegner creative writing fellow Stanford University, 1968-1969. Recipient 1st prize university poetry contest Academy American Poets, 1966, Atlantic Young Poet award, 1967, Stanley Kunitz Poetry award, 1981, Guy Owen Poetry Prize, 1982, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), 1977, 1980, 1985. Named Poet Laureate of Tucson, 1997-2002.Rockefeller Foundation grantee, 1969-1970. Guggenheim Foundation grantee, 1970-1971. National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1973-1974.
United States/United Kingdom Bicentennial Exchange Artist, 1978-1979, Wallace Stegner creative writing fellow Stanford University, 1968-1969. Recipient 1st prize university poetry contest Academy American Poets, 1966, Atlantic Young Poet award, 1967, Stanley Kunitz Poetry award, 1981, Guy Owen Poetry Prize, 1982, Pushcart Prize (Poetry), 1977, 1980, 1985. Named Poet Laureate of Tucson, 1997-2002.