Mezey, Robert

Robert Mezey, writer, was born in 1935 in Philadelphia. Winner in 1960 of the Lamont Award for The Lovemaker, he has published many poetry collections, coedited Naked Poetry (1969), and was one of several translators for Poems from the Hebrew (1973). Evening Wind , a book of poems, appeared in 1987. His poems, prose, and translations have been appearing since 1953 in many journals, including The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, The Partisan Review, and the Yale Review among others. His books of poetry include The Lovemaker, White Blossoms, A Book of Dying, and The Mercy of Sorrow. In 1982, Syracuse University Press published his annotated translation of Caesar Vallejo's novel, Tungsteno. In 1987, Evening Wind won a P.E.N. prize and the Bassine Citation. His Collected Poems were published by University of Arkansas Press in 2000. He edited, with Donald Justice, the Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. He has also published in the last few years his editions of Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Penguin) and The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (Modern Library). His awards include the Robert Frost Prize, the Lamont Selection (for The Lovemaker), an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, one from the Guggenheim Foundation, and from the National Endowment of Arts.

From the description of Robert Mezey Collection ca. 1952. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 319490609

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