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Jason Sommer

American poet and academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Jason Sommer is an American poet and academic.

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Life

He graduated from Brandeis University, Stanford University (where he held the Mirrielees Fellowship in Poetry), and Saint Louis University. He taught at Saint Louis University, Webster University, and University College, Dublin.

His work appeared in AGNI,[1] The New Republic, Ploughshares,[2] TriQuarterly.[3]

He taught at Fontbonne University[4] from 1985 to 2015, where he also held the distinction of Poet in Residence.[5]

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Awards

Works

  • "The Ballad of Fighting With My Father". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. Archived from the original on 29 March 2005.
  • Lifting the Stone. Forest Books. 1 January 1991. ISBN 978-0-948259-94-4.
  • Other People's Troubles. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-76816-8.
  • The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. University of Chicago Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-226-76805-2.
  • The Laughter of Adam and Eve. Southern Illinois University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0809332786.
  • Portulans. University of Chicago Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0226737393.
  • Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father. Imagine. 2022. ISBN 978-1-62354-512-3.

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