L.S. Asekoff
American poet and professor emeritus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Louis S. Asekoff (born December 17, 1939) is an American poet and professor emeritus. Asekoff often incorporates surrealist imagery and monologue[1] into his poetry, which is concerned with both the imagistic and aural dimensions of language. Asekoff's unconventional use of monologue as a poetic instrument is suggestive of "the inability of words to properly convey meaning" and a vehicle for implicating the readers who become "members of his poetic universe."[2] In 2012, Poet laureate Philip Levine, who selected Asekoff for the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize, described Asekoff as "a true surreal visionary."[3]
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Born | (1939-12-17) December 17, 1939 (age 84) Waltham, Massachusetts, United States |
Occupation | Poet, Professor |
Period | Contemporary |
Notable works | The Gate of Horn, The Widows of Gravesend |
Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Witter Bynner, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fund for Poetry, Jerome Shestack Prize |
Partner | Mary Louise Kalin |
Asekoff taught poetry and coordinated the MFA Poetry Program at Brooklyn College for 42 years, where he also served as a Faculty Associate for The Wolfe Institute for Humanities.[4][5]
Derek Mahon’s poem “The Snow Party” was dedicated to Asekoff.