Will Alexander | |
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
Occupation | Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, visual artist |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) |
Notable awards | American Book Award (2013) |
Will Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist. He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002.
He earned a BA in English and creative writing from the University of California–Los Angeles in 1972. [1]
His work has appeared in BOMB , Boston Review , Entropy , Chicago Review , Denver Quarterly , Fence , jubilat , and The Nation . [2]
Alexander's poetry and his visual art have been greatly influenced by his readings of Bob Kaufman, Octavio Paz, and Francophone Negritude writers such as Aimé Cesaire and Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo. Alexander describes their themes of cosmic isolation from society and interior discovery as an "alchemical metamorphosis". Much of his work is characterized by this powerful mix of metaphor and sophisticated language. According to the Poetry Foundation, his work is frequently described as surreal. [1]
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