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Praying wrong: New and selected poems, 1957-1984
Praying New and selected poems, 1957-1984 Peter Praying New and selected poems, 1957-1984 FIRST First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Atheneum, 1984. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Seller 367125 Poetry
195 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Peter Davison
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Peter Davison was an American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher.
Davison worked as an editor at the Atlantic Monthly Press and Houghton Mifflin. He was also poetry editor for Atlantic Monthly. He was part of a literary milieu that included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall.
In 1963, his first book of poetry, Breaking of the Day, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Dudley Fitts.
Breathing Room won the Massachusetts Book Award.
Among the authors Davison edited were Ward Just, Farley Mowat, William Least Heat-Moon, and Robert Coles.
Peter Davison was an American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher.
Davison worked as an editor at the Atlantic Monthly Press and Houghton Mifflin. He was also poetry editor for Atlantic Monthly. He was part of a literary milieu that included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, and Donald Hall.
In 1963, his first book of poetry, Breaking of the Day, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Dudley Fitts.
Breathing Room won the Massachusetts Book Award.
Among the authors Davison edited were Ward Just, Farley Mowat, William Least Heat-Moon, and Robert Coles.
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