Douglas Crase

Who is this?

Douglas Crase (born 1944) is an American poet, essayist and critic. He was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan. His poetry collection, The Revisionist, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award and was included by critic Harold Bloom in his list of works constituting the Western Canon of literature. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of a Whiting Award. Crase lives in New York City and Honesdale, Pennsylvania. His work has been published in many collections, including his poem "Astropastoral", found in The KGB Bar Book Of Poems edited by David Lehman and Star Black.

Career

1. 1944
   Born
2. 1985
   Won Whiting Award (Poetry)
3. Won Guggenheim Fellowship
4. Won MacArthur Fellows Program

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Battle Creek
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: literary critic, journalist, poet