Fire in the Conservatory: Poems

by Linda Gregerson

Gregerson, Linda

Genres: Poetry

65 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1983

About the author

Linda Gregerson is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan. She recieved her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Linda Gregerson is the author of several collections of poetry and literary criticism. Also a Renaissance scholar, a classically trained actor, and a devotee of the sciences, she produces lyrical poems informed by her expansive reading that are inquisitive, unflinching, and tender.

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Waterborne
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist for The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
National Book Award finalist for Manetic North

Reviews

[harold gangnam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Im not the greatest fan of poetry but im trying to get into it
My sister got it for me from New Orleans
The prose was a lil interesting but the poems were Good

[Gary McDowell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to find a copy.... So I got it from the library. Will read over break. I want to go through her work chronologically. This book looks so different than the newest one.