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Michelle Boisseau
American poet (1955–2017) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michelle Boisseau (October 26, 1955 – November 15, 2017) was an American poet.
Life and career
Boisseau was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 26, 1955. She attended Ohio University, where she received a BA in 1977 and an MA in 1980, and the University of Houston where she received her PhD in 1985.[1] She began teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1995.[2]
She published her first collection of poetry, No Private Life in 1990. This was followed by Understory in 1996[1] which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.[3] She published Trembling Airs in 2003, A Sunday in God-Years in 2009 and Among the Gorgons in 2016.[4] She has also published a textbook called Writing Poems and her work also appeared in publications such as Poetry, The Yale Review and The Cincinnati Review.[5]
She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 for her work.[1]
She died on November 15, 2017, from lung cancer.[2]
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Bibliography
- Among the Gorgons (2016) ISBN 1597321362
- A Sunday in God-Years (2009) ISBN 1557289018
- Tremblimg Air (2003) ISBN 155728752X
- Understory (1996) ISBN 1555532861
- No Private Life (1990) ISBN 0826512399
References
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