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Michael White “There is a Wordsworthian grandeur about Michael White’s poems, a rhetorical and emotional fullness that is breathtaking. His attention to the shifting complexity of the natural world, his precise diction, his finely tuned cadences carry with them an unusual power, an immense gravity. Reading him, one feels the irresistible pull of belief in the retrievals of poetry, in the drift of language into experiences, and in the imagination as the central and most persuasive means by which we say Yes to the world.” |
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Michael White was born in 1956. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the University of Utah (Ph.D. 1990). Michael has published 3 full-length collections of poetry: The Island (1993), Palma Cathedral (1998), and Re-entry (2006); His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Best American Poetry. Michael has won the American Poets Prize three times in Utah, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and is a recipient of fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he lives. |
“From White’s minutely observed and lyrically rendered landscapes — where vine-snarl defines the upper world and algal afterglow the lower — to his reenvisioning of the Death of Turnus from the Aeneid, Palma Cathedral traces the journey of the imagination in the face of overwhelming loss.” Click here to buy Palma Cathedral, signed by the author, now. |
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“Michael White’s work does what all good poetry does: it presents the sun-drenched quotidiana of our lives, and lifts it all into the sacred space of poetry and memory. He delights us with his naming.” |
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