Lisa Russ Spaar - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist.
She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing.
She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems.
Her latest collection, Orexia, will be published by Persea Books in 2017.
The Virginia Quarterly Review describes her work as the perfect marriage of the realism of William Carlos Williams .
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and the sleepless heaven-seeking of such cloistered ecstatics as Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Spaar has also edited several anthologies, including All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, which Billy Collins says "gathers [a] mighty swirl of poetry into a gorgeous volume whose variety and heft rival the city itself— its smoke, roar, and flow."

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