Marie Ponsot

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Marie Ponsot

American writer, critic, teacher, and translator

Also known as: Marie Birmingham

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Née:: Marie Birmingham

Born:: April 6, 1921, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Died:: July 5, 2019, New York, New York (aged 98)

Awards And Honors:: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2013)

Notable Works:: “Admit Impediment”; “Collected Poems”; “The Bird Catcher”; “The Green Dark”; “True Minds”

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Marie Ponsot (born April 6, 1921, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 5, 2019, New York, New York) was an American poet, essayist, literary critic, teacher, and translator who has been described as a love poet, a metaphysician, and a formalist. Although she periodically published individual poems, her collections were few, and she released only one—True Minds (1957)—before 1981. Her first published poem appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle (a then popular afternoon newspaper) when she was still a child. She graduated with a B.A. from St. Joseph’s College for Women, in Brooklyn, and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University. She ...(100 of 327 words)

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