Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of

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. In addition to three books of poetry — ''The Ghost Ship'' (1990), ''The Rooster Mask'' (1998), and ''Background Radiation'' (2007) — he has written critical works on such poets as

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. He edited ''The James Dickey Reader'' (1999), and his biography ''James Dickey: The World as a Lie'' (2000) was a finalist in nonfiction for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He also edited ''The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature Series'' (2009). His poems and essays have appeared in ''

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'', '' Denver Quarterly'', and numerous other journals. Hart was a founding editor of ''Verse'', an international poetry journal active 1984–2018. In 2010, he won the Carole Weinstein Prize for Poetry. On July 2, 2018, he was sworn in as the 17th Poet Laureate of Virginia in the commonwealth's capital of Richmond.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''The Ghost Ship'' (1990) * ''The Rooster Mask'' (1998) * ''Background Radiation'' (2007) * "Familiar Ghosts" (2014)

Books and biographies

* "The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill" (1986) * "Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (1992) * "The James Dickey Reader" (1999) * ''James Dickey: The World as a Lie'' (2000) * "The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography" (2017)

References

External links

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
James Dickey: The World as a Lie research files, 1990-2005
Poets laureate of Virginia College of William & Mary faculty American academics of English literature Living people 1954 births {{US-English-academic-bio-stub