On Equal Terms: poems by Charles Bernstein David Ignatow Denise Levertov Louis Simpson Gerald Stern - 1984

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Symposium Press,, 1984.. Edition of 275. 8 x 12.5"; 64 pages including free end pages. Produced at the Institute for the Book Arts in the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama and published jointly with the English Department. Designed by Gabriel Rummonds. Printed under Rummonds direction by Sue Harris, Kathryn Miller, Cary Wilkins, and Linda Samson-Talleur. Text handset in monotype Van Dijck and printed on Mohawk Superfine. Bound in green paper wrappers with title printed on front cover. A Fine copy. On Equal Terms" contains poems by the participants in The Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature: What Is a Poet? at the University of Alabama, October 18-20, 1984. "On Equal Terms" presents two previously unpublished poems by each of the five poets.  The introduction is by Hank Lazer, director of the symposium. Lazer is a poet and essayist and teaches at the University of Alabama. Charles Bernstein www.poets.org: "Bernstein serves as the Executive Editor, and co-founder, of The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-Buffalo. His honors and awards include the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, he is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania." Bernstein's' two poems in "On Equal Terms" were included in "The Sophist" published later in 1985 by Sun and Moon Press. David Ignatow (1914 - 1997)www.poets.org: " Ignatow's many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort." He received the Shelley Memorial Award (1966), the Frost Medal (1992), and the William Carlos Williams Award (1997) of the Poetry Society of America." Ignatow's two poems for "On Equal Terms" were published later by Wesleyan University in New and Collected Poems, 1970-1986. Denise Levertov (1923-1997), wikipedia 10/18/2018: "Levertov wrote and published 24 books of poetry, and also criticism and translations. She also edited several anthologies. Among her many awards and honours, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Lannan Award, the Catherine Luck Memorial Grant, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship." Her two poems from "On Equal Terms" to be published in "Oblique Prayers" October 1984 by New Directions. Louis Simpson (1923 - 2012), www.poets.org: "Among his many other honors are the Prix de Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University … At the End of the Open Road, Poems (1963), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry." Gerald Stern, www.poets.org: " His honors include the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2005, Stern was selected to receive the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry." His two poems in this volume are from Paradise Poems, to be published by Random House in September 1984.