Edgar Bowers

Edgar Bowers

Edgar Bowers (2 March 1924 - 4 February 2000) was an American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989.

Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia in 1924. He served in Counter-intelligence in Germany during World War II. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1950 and did graduate work in English literature at Stanford University. Bowers published several books of poetry, including "The Form of Loss," "For Louis Pasteur," and "The Astronomers." He won two fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and taught at Duke University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bowers retired in 1991 and died in San Francisco in 2000.

External links

[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/154 Bowers's page at poets.org]


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