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Author Tom Raworth reading

10/20/10
07:30pm - 09:00pm
Lecture, Reading, Film, Conference

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Graduate Writing presents a reading by Tom Raworth, author of more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translations, including The Relation Ship, which won the 1969 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, A Serial Biography, Lion Lion, Moving (with illustrations by Joe Brainard), Back to Nature, Cloister, The Mask, Ace, Nicht Wahr, Rosie?, Lazy Left Hand, Visible Shivers, and Eternal Sections. He is also the author of Tottering State: Selected and New Poems 1963 to 1987, Clean & Well Lit: Selected Poems 1987 to 1995, and Collected Poems, published by Carcanet, who this year also brought out Windmills in Flames. In 2007, Raworth was awarded the Antonio Delfini prize for lifetime achievement in Modena, Italy.

During the 1960s, Tom Raworth founded and worked at the Goliard Press and subsequently embarked on a teaching career at the University of Essex, the University of Texas, Austin, King's College, Cambridge, the University of Cape Town, UCSD, and Columbia College, Chicago. In addition to his native Britain, Raworth has lived and worked in the United States and Mexico. He currently resides in Brighton, England.

Ahmanson Hall Forum, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, L.A. 90045

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