Ralph Angel

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name = Ralph Angel

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occupation = Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands
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notableworks = Exceptions and Melancholies
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Ralph Angel (born 1951) is an American poet and translator. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Angel attended inner-city public schools there, then worked on freight trains for the Union Pacific Railroad as he earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Washington. Later he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine. [http://www.greeninteger.com/pipbios_detail.cfm?PIPAuthorID=12] Green Integer Web site, Web page titled "PIP Biographies: Ralph Angel: 1951", accessed January 21, 2006]

He is an Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Angel also was the featured poet of the Spring 2005 issue of Poetry Magazine. [http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2005/Spr005/Features/angel.htm] Web page titled "Ralph Angel" at the Poetry Magazine Web site]

Books

* 1986 — "Anxious Latitudes" (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press)
* 1995 — "Neither World" (Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press), winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets
* 2001 — "Twice Removed", (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books), nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards
* 2006 Translator of Federico Garcia Lorca, "Poem of the Deep Song", winner of the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize
* 2006 — "Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006" (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books)

Awards and honors

* 2007 PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry for "Exceptions and Melancholies"
* Pushcart Prize
* An award from the Fulbright Foundation
* An award from The Modern Poetry Association
* A gift from the Elgin Cox Trust
* His "Shadow Play" (which originally appeared in "Poetry") was included in "The Best American Poetry 1988"
* Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, 2003

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External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/180] Biographical sketch at Poets.org Web site of the Academy of American Poets

;Poetry online
* [http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2005/Spr005/Features/angel.htm] At "Poetry" magazine Web site:
* "Breaking and Entering"
* "In Every Direction"
* "It takes a while to disappear"
* "Man in a Window"
* "Tiny"

;Reviews
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/19/paq-rev1.html] Review of "Twice Removed" by Ethan Paquin in "Jacket"