Talvikki Ansel

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Talvikki Ansel
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMount Holyoke College, Indiana University Bloomington
GenrePoetry

Talvikki Ansel is an American poet. She was chosen as a winner by James Dickey, for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.

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Life

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University Bloomington. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah.

She teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

Awards

Works

Books

Reviews

With admirable economy, the title Jetty announces two significant features of Talvikki Ansel's second book: the liminal vantage-point of the narrators of these poems and the curious ways in which the human world intersects with the natural. [3]

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References

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  2. "Prairie Schooner Article Archives - HighBeam Research" . Retrieved 20 September 2016.[ dead link ]
  3. "Review - Jetty & Other Poems, by Talvikki Ansel" . Retrieved 20 September 2016.