Miller Williams (1930–2015)
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Miller Williams was born on April 8, 1930 in Hoxie, Arkansas. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Arkansas State University and a master's degree in zoology at the University of Arkansas. He taught biology at several colleges before getting a job in the Louisiana State University's vis mere English Department in 1962. He joined the University of Arkansas' English department in 1970 and remained a professor emeritus until his death. His first collection of poetry, Et Cetera, was published in 1952. During his lifetime, he wrote over 25 collections of poetry including A Circle of Stone, Halfway from Hoxie, The Boys on Their Bony Mules, Points of Departure, The Ways We Touch: Poems, and Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems. He received the 1991 Poets' Prize for Living on the Surface and the National Arts Award for his lifelong contribution to the arts. He also worked as a translator and editor and went on to co-found the University of Arkansas Press, which he directed for two decades. He read his poem, Of History and Hope, at President Bill Clinton's second inauguration. He died after years of battling Alzheimer's disease on January 1, 2015 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Miller Williams
A Roman Collection: Stories, Poems, and Other Good Pieces (1980) — Editor, Introduction & Contributor — 8 eksemplarer
19 poetas de hoy en los Estados Unidos 1 eksemplar
Two Poems 1 eksemplar
Recital 1 eksemplar
So long at the fair;: [poems 1 eksemplar
Letters to the editor, and other poems 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 915 eksemplarer
Epos : the work of American and British poets (vol. 10, no. 1, Fall 1958) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Epos : the work of American and British Poets (vol. 10, no. 2 Winter 1958) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Williams, Stanley Miller
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-04-08
- Dødsdag
- 2015-01-01
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Hoxie, Arkansas, USA
- Dødssted
- Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
- Bopæl
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Uddannelse
- Arkansas State University
University of Arkansas (MS|Biology) - Erhverv
- poet
translator
editor
professor - Relationer
- Williams, Lucinda (daughter)
Whitehead, James (friend) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1963-1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1995)
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The short histories cover such things as the evolution of the idea of steam powered transport starting with the 1641 efforts of the Frenchman Solomon de Caus, the underground railroad in the United States, the wild financial exploits of Drew, Vanderbilt, Fisk, and Gould, and the labor strife of blacks and whites in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
The biographies provide a glimpse into the lives of Casey Jones, Kate Shelly, and Thomas Edison among others. The first-person accounts cover some of the “roads less taken”. There’s a sketch of life in a hobo camp (Charles Chrysler), a reflection on a life with a father who was a boiler maker (Otto Salassi), what it was like working in the dining cars ( Joe Monroe) and others.
The fiction runs the gamut from the grim to the almost unintelligible and this reviewer did not find any of it particularly interesting. The same is true for a lot of the cited poetry.
Overall I don’t begrudge the time spent reading but it is not a book I am likely to revisit.
(Text Length – 185 pages. Includes numerous pictures, illustrations, maps, etc.) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH – 8.5 x .625 x 10.875).… (mere)