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Praying wrong: New and selected poems, 1957-1984
Book by Davison, Peter
195 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
About the author
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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