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American poet (born 1941)
William Pitt Root (born 1941
Austin, Minnesota) is an American
poet.
[1]
He was raised in
Fort Myers, Florida.
[2]
He studied at the
University of Washington, and
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
[3]
He was
Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at
Hunter College.
[4]
He was a US/UK Exchange Artist,
Rockefeller Foundation fellow,
Guggenheim Fellow,
[5]
Wallace Stegner Fellow at
Stanford University, and an
NEA fellow.
[6]
His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,
[7]
The Atlantic,
[8]
The New Yorker,
[9]
Harpers,
[10]
The Nation,
Commonweal,
The American Poetry Review,
Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.
[11]
He is married to poet
Pamela Uschuk; they live near
Durango, Colorado and Tucson Arizona
Works
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"Song of the Piper", Poetry Foundation
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"Temperance Poems", Poetry Foundation
- "Strange Angels: New Poems" Wins Press, 2013,
ISBN
978-1-60940-319-5
- "Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda" Wings Press, 2013,
ISBN
978-0-916727-87-1
- White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West Carolina Wren Press, 2006,
ISBN
978-0-932112-51-4
- Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books of WPR Confluence Press, 1994,
ISBN
978-1-881090-12-0
- Faultdancing, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986,
ISBN
978-0-8229-3530-8
- Invisible Guests (1983)
- Reasons for Going It on Foot Atheneum, 1981,
ISBN
978-0-689-11164-8
- In the World's Common Grasses Moving Parts Press, 1981
- Coot and Other Characters Confluence Press, 1977,
ISBN
978-0-917652-03-5
- Fireclock Four Zoas Night House, 1981,
ISBN
978-0-939622-21-4
- Striking the Dark Air for Music Atheneum, 1973,
ISBN
978-0-689-10558-6
- The Storm and Other Poems Atheneum, 1969; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005,
ISBN
978-0-88748-444-5
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