Alan Williamson

Alan Williamson recently retired from the University of California at Davis. He has also taught at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Brandeis. His books of poems are Presence, The Muse of Distance, Love and the Soul, Res Publica, The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems and Franciscan Notes. He has also published five critical books:  Introspection and Contemporary Poetry; Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell; Eloquence and Mere Life;  Almost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification, and Westernness:  A Meditation.  He has done a number of translations from the Italian, including The Living Theatre:  Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, co-translated with Jeanne Foster.  He has received grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.