Ben Mazer (born 1964 in

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) is an

American poet The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q *George Quasha (born 1942 in poetry, 1942) R ...

and editor.

Life

Mazer was born in New York City and raised in the

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...

area. He studied under

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

and

William Alfred William Alfred (August 16, 1922 – May 20, 1999) was an American playwright, poet, and professor of English literature at Harvard University. Biography Alfred was born into an Irish family in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a bricklayer and ...

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. Following graduation, he entered the Editorial Institute at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

to focus on textual scholarship. Mazer is the editor of the ''Battersea Review''. He lives in Cambridge.

Publications

As poet: * ''White Cities'' (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995) * ''Johanna Poems'' (Cy Gist Press, 2007) * ''The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics'' (Cannibal Books, 2008; 2009) * ''Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010) * ''January 2008'' (Dark Sky Books, 2010) * ''A City of Angels: A Verse Play in Three Acts'' (Cy Gist Press, 2011) * ''Tales of the Buckman Tavern'' (Poetrywala, 2012) * ''New Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013) * ''The Glass Piano'' (

MadHat Press ''MadHat Press'' is an American and international book-publishing company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History MadHat was founded in 2010 by poets Carol Novack and Marc Vincenz as a platform for new American and international writing. At ...

, 2015) * ''December Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016) * ''February Poems'' (Ilora Press, 2017) * ''Selected Poems'' (

, 2017) * ''Te conozco?'' (

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, 2018). Bilingual edition with translations into Spanish by Mario Murgia. * ''The Hierarchy of the Pavilions'' (

, 2020) * ''The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022'' (

, 2023) * ''The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022'' ( Poetrywala, 2023) As editor: * '' Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005'' (

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, 2006), winner of the

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's first Emily Dickinson Award. * ''Selected Poems of

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (February 4, 1821 – May 9, 1873) was an American poet, remembered mostly for his sonnet series. Apart from the 1860 publication of his book ''Poems'', which included approximately two-fifths of his lifetime sonnet o ...

'' (

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, 2010) *

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection '' White Buildings'' (1926), feat ...

. ''The Bridge: The Uncollected Version, from Periodicals and Anthologies, 1927-1930'' (

, 2015) * ''The Collected Poems of

John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon ...

'' (Un-Gyve Press, 2015) * ''The Uncollected

Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...

'' (Arrowsmith Press, 2019) *

Harry Crosby Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, World War I veteran, bon vivant, poet, and publisher who for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking familie ...

. ''Selected Poems'' (

, 2020) * Thomas Sayers Ellis, ''Mexico: Photographs'' (Art and Letters, 2021) * Ruth Lepson, ''on the way: new and selected poems'' (

, 2021) * ''The Collected Poems of

'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) Books About: * Thomas Graves. ''Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

References

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