Darling Vulgarity by Michael Waters

Darling Vulgarity by Michael Waters

With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity's imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy wrote, "Waters' meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime are both disturbing and artfully passionate."
Darling Vulgarity also includes poems based on Waters' true literary experiences with such notables as Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Lowell.

Michael Waters: Michael Waters teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. He is Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University in Maryland. His eight books of poems include Darling Vulgarity (2006--finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001--finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize), Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (1997)--these titles from BOA Editions--Bountiful (1992), The Burden Lifters (1989), and Anniversary of the Air (1985)--these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. He has also edited and co-edited several volumes, including Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Perfect in the Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). The recipient of a fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and four Pushcart Prizes, he has been Visiting Professor of American Literature at the University of Athens, Greece, Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College, Stadler Poet-in-Residence at Bucknell University, Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University, Core Faculty member in the New England College MFA Program, and Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at Al. I Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. He lives in Ocean, New Jersey with his wife, Mihaela Moscaliuc, and their son, Fabian.

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ISBN 13	9781929918850
ISBN 10	1929918852
Title	Darling Vulgarity
Author	Michael Waters
Series	American Poets Continuum
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	BOA Editions, Limited
Year published	2006-11-16
Number of pages	96
Prizes	Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2006
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