Robley Wilson

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Robley Wilson


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Brunswick, Maine, The United States
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Robley Wilson (born 1930 in Brunswick, Maine) is an American poet, writer, and editor.

Wilson's first book of poems, 'Kingdoms of the Ordinary', was the 1986 Agnes Lynch Starrett prizewinner, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 1987; his second, 'A Pleasure Tree', also from Pittsburgh, won the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize for 1990; his most recent collection, 'Everything Paid For', was published by the University Press of Florida in 1999. A poetry chapbook, 'A Walk Through the Human Heart', appeared in 1996 from Helicon Nine editions.

Wilson taught creative writing at the University of Northern Iowa from 1963 to 1996, and from 1969 to 2000 was editor of the 'North American Review', a university-owned mag
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Average rating: 3.92 · 265 ratings · 31 reviews · 25 distinct works
The World Still Melting

3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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The Victim's Daughter

3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions
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Who Will Hear Your Secrets?

3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Dancing for Men

3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions
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Splendid Omens

3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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After Paradise

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Terrible Kisses: Stories

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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Kingdoms of the Ordinary

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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The Book of Lost Fathers: S...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Pleasure Tree (Pittsburgh P...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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“I wish in the city of your heart
you would let me be the street
where you walk when you are most
yourself. I imagine the houses:
It has been raining, but the rain
is done and the children kept home
have begun opening their doors.”
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