Sun Takes Us Away: New and Selected Poems

by Benjamin Saltman

Overview

"The grace of these poems...should be a...lesson: to those who have settled for less...those who...presumed more."

—Jim Krusoe

"[Saltman]'s a fine poet, a genuine one--which is saying a great deal...Lovely...apparent plainness...depth beyond it."

—W.S. Merwin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780963952875
Publisher:	Red Hen Press
Publication date:	06/12/1996
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and completed his graduate education at Claremont Graduate School. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. He received several awards and fellowships including two NEA awards, and a Creative Writing Fellowship for 1987 and 1988. He won a John Williams Andrews Award for a long narrative poem from Poet Lore, a Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and an Anna Rosenberg Award for a poem about the Jewish experience. His work appeared in numerous magazines over the years, among them the Hudson Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Ironwood and Kayak. For twenty-five years he taught verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge, where he was emeritus professor of English. He died in 1999.