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This substantial volume, half of which is comprised of new and previously uncollected work, represents the first retrospective of novelist, anthologist, and poet Clarence Major's forty-year writing career. Informed by topics as diverse as racism, painting, travel, music, sexuality, and mythology, Major's poems reflect a love for the language which is infectious. More about this book >
Clarence Major is a prize-winning poet whose first collection, Swallow the Lake, won The National Council on the Arts Award in 1970. Author of ten books of poetry, Major was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Award for Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998. He is a contributor to more than a hundred periodicals and anthologies, including several Norton’s. He has served as literary judge for the National Endowment for the Arts, National Book Awards, and many state and cultural arts agencies. He has read his poetry at the Guggenheim Museum, the Folger Theater, in hundreds of universities, theaters, and cultural centers in the United States and Europe. In Yugoslavia he represented the United States in 1975 at the International Poetry Festival. He is also editor of anthologies widely used in university classes. Clarence Major teaches American literature at the University of California, Davis.
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