Simpson, Louis [Aston Marantz]
Simpson, Louis [Aston Marantz]( 1923– ),born in Jamaica, received his B.S. from Columbia (1948) after service in an airborne division in World War II. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia and has taught at the Univer-sity of California, Berkeley (1959–67), and the State University of New York, Stony Brook (1967– ). His poetry, marked by vivid imagination and fine craftsmanship, has been published in The Arrivistes (1949); Good News of Death (1955); A Dream of Governors (1959), including the long narrative poem The Runner, set in the invasion of Europe in World War II; At the End of the Open Road (1963, Pulitzer Prize), including the long poem The Marriage of Pocahontas, developing history into myth; Selected Poems (1965); Adventures of the Letter I (1971); Searching for the Ox (1976); Caviare at the Funeral (1980); People Live Here (1983), selected poems since...
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