Alfred Corn
UNIONS is Alfred Corn's eleventh book of poems. He has also published a novel, Part of His Story ; two collections of essays; and THE POEM'S HEARTBEAT (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a study of prosody. For his poetry, he has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, preparing a translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies , and...See more
UNIONS is Alfred Corn's eleventh book of poems. He has also published a novel, Part of His Story ; two collections of essays; and THE POEM'S HEARTBEAT (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a study of prosody. For his poetry, he has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, preparing a translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies , and returned as a Life Fellow for a second residency in 2013. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA. Later this year, Eyewear will publish his second novel, Miranda's Book . See less
