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Robert Mezey (1935–2020)

Author of Poems of the American West (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

17+ Works 177 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Robert Mezey has been a poet-in-residence at Pomona College since 1976.

Works by Robert Mezey

Poems of the American West (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2002) 74 copies, 1 review

New Naked Poetry Recent American Poetry in Open Forms (1976) — Editor — 30 copies

Poems from the Hebrew (1973) 22 copies

Collected Poems, 1952-1999 (2000) 12 copies

The door standing open; new and selected poems, 1954-1969 (1970) 8 copies

Evening Wind (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (1987) 6 copies

The lovemaker; poems 5 copies

Favors (1968) 3 copies

Couplets (1976) 3 copies

A Book of Dying (1970) 3 copies

Selected Translations 1960-1980 (1981) 2 copies

Small song (1979) 2 copies

White Blossoms: Poems By Robert Mezey (1965) 2 copies

The wandering Jew. Cornell College Chapbooks, New Series II: no.28 (1960) 2 copies

The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems 1 copy

The lovemaker ~ poems. (1961) 1 copy

Selected translations: 1960-1980 1 copy

Associated Works

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 440 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 168 copies

Elsewhere, Vol. III (1984) — Contributor — 94 copies

The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Contributor — 84 copies, 3 reviews

American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Contributor — 81 copies

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review

Hearse #15 (1971) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1935
Date of death: 2020-04-25
Gender: male
Education: Kenyon College (BA|1955)
Occupations: poet
Organizations: Pomona College

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Poems of the American West (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Robert Mezey

This was a gift. Did they seriously put Randy Travis lyrics in this thing?

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Awards

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Lamont Poetry Prize

The lovemaker; poems (1960)

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Statistics

Works: 17
Also by: 7
Members: 177
Popularity: #121,426
Rating: 3.9

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 10

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