Ralph Angel

Poetry is the language for which we have no language.

Ralph Angel

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Ralph Angel possesses what every poet dreams of − a warm heart and a cold eye.

All of his poems have a foothold between Everything and Nothing, the place each of us lives in, day in and day out, though we seldom recognize or admit it the way these poems do. 

Many of them unfold like a ravishing film, to which a voice-over adds such haunting commentary we are surprised to reach the end and realize we have been…reading! - Mary Ruefle

Read his story.

 

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The

Ralph Angel

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Honors and Awards

Ralph Angel’s collection of poems, Your Moon, was awarded the 2013 Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 received the 2007 PEN USA Poetry Award, and his Neither World won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. In addition to five books of poetry, he also published an award-winning translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song.

His most recent work includes entropia, a collection of thirty-one images, and Strays, a limited-edition chapbook of poems. Angel received numerous honors, including a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association.

He was also the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor at the University of Redlands, where he taught for 39 years, and a member of the MFA in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

 
 
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