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Mar 25, 1925 Chester, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 21 Nov 2011 (aged 86)
American poet
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About Theodore Enslin
- Theodore Vernon Enslin (March 25, 1925 – November 21, 2011) was an American poet associated with Cid Corman's Origin and press.
- He is widely regarded as one of the most musical of American avant-garde poets.Enslin was born in Chester, Pennsylvania.
- His father was a biblical scholar and his mother a Latin scholar.
- He studied musical composition at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- His teacher, Nadia Boulanger, was the first person to recognize his ability as a writer and encouraged him to pursue his interest in poetry.
- He has said "I like to be considered as a composer who happens to use words instead of notes." His first book, The Work Proposed, was published by Origin in 1958. Enslin moved to Maine in 1960 and had lived in Washington County ever since, working at odd jobs and making and selling handmade walking sticks.
- The Maine landscape forms an integral part of his poetry, as does its isolation, both geographic and in terms of distance from literary fashion and the academy, on the physical margin of the United States.
- Ranger 1978 is one of the key American long poems of the second half of the 20th century.
- A bibliographical checklist of Enslin's works was prepared by Robert J.
- Bertholf and published in 2017. He died in Milbridge, Maine on November 21, 2011.
