Elton Glaser

Elton Glaser is an American poet. He has published collections of poetry and been published in literary magazines.

Life

He is a native of New Orleans, is a retired Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Akron, and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry.[1]

He lives in Akron, Ohio.[2]

Awards
  • 2010 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Do the Do"
  • 2009 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Slow Fuse Around the Cranium"
  • 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White"
  • 2002 Crab Orchard Award

Reviews

Elton Glaser's third book of poems, Color Photographs of the Ruins, has the virtue of being relentlessly true to itself. Mr. Glaser rants against contemporary poetry --

"Nuclear ecstasy on the picket line; /
Another homily on hominy; the lacquer of tears /
Sealing in the wrath of wronged women"

-- and it's easy to see why, since his poetry exists in some lower circle of hell. His book is so bad-tempered, without joy, that it makes one wonder what to make of our era and its poetry. Mr. Glaser is an angry and forceful poet, who uses wit and contempt as a double-edged sword.[3]

Bibliography
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Collections
  • Glaser, Elton (1984). Relics : poems. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-8195-2118-7.
  • — (1988). Tropical depressions : poems. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-201-0.
  • — (1992). Color photographs of the ruins. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-3705-0.
  • — (2000). Winter amnesties. Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2305-0.
  • — (2003). Pelican tracks. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2516-0.
  • — (2005). Here and hereafter : poems. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-796-0.

Poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected in
Undead White European Male The Gettysburg Review Howard, Richard; Lehman, David, eds. (1995). The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. pp. 77–79. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
Meditation in blue and white 2003 Glaser, Elton (2003). "Meditation in blue and white". The Marlboro Review. 14&15. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
The coefficient of drag 2006 Poetry Magazine (Spring 2006)
Exhaustion 2006 Poetry Magazine (Spring 2006)
Least resistance 2006 Poetry Magazine (Spring 2006)
Regression analysis 2006 Poetry Magazine (Spring 2006)
Do the Do 2010 Glaser, Elton (2010). "Do the Do". Southern Poetry Review. 48 (2): 15–16. Retrieved 2015-02-17. Henderson, Bill, ed. (2013). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 78–79.

References
  1. http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/glaser/intro.html
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2009-07-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Liz Rosenberg (September 20, 1992). "UNIVERSITY PRESSES; The Pure, the Angry, the Eerie". The New York Times.
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