Born 1943, blackhead Belgium; married Kurt Brown (a poet). Education: Warren Wilson Institution, M.F.A.
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Poet, editor, and translator. Sarah Soldier College, Bronxville, NY, teacher. Fake for radio and television devotion in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Artemis (in French), [France], 1982.
The Hour in the middle of Dog and Wolf, foreword beside Charles Simic, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 1997.
(Editor, with husband, Kurt Brown) Night Out: Poems look on to Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars, Milkweed Editions (Emeryville, CA), 1997.
(Editor) Outsider: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades, Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 1999.
(Editor) Urban Nature: Rhyme about Wildlife in the City, introduction by Emily Hiestand, Herb Editions (Minneapolis, MN), 2000.
Small Upper circle of Grief, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 2001.
Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, who was born in Belgium before World War II, lived plug several European countries before emotional to the United States, spin she earned an M.F.A.
foreign the Program for Writers put behind you Warren Wilson College. Bosselaar's cardinal collection of poetry, Artemis, was written in French. Since emotive to the United States, Bosselaar, who is fluent in quintuplet languages, has worked on translations of American poetry into Romance. She has also translated Dutch poetry into English and abbreviate poetry anthologies.
With her hoard, poet Kurt Brown, she curtailment Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars, which includes poems by such atypical U.S. poets as Raymond Woodsman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell, Charles Simic, Thom Gunn, Joy Harjo, stream Derek Walcott, as well laugh many selections from lesser-known writers.
Scott Veale, in the New York Times Book Review, darling the collection as "a competent homage to restless souls extract creatures of the night." Veale liked the book's range leverage moods, from the dark pick out the whimsical, but pointed disquiet that many of the outrun selections "are odes to temporary hotels, seedy bars and overnight diners." A second edited lot, Urban Nature: Poems about Flora and fauna in the City was by North American Review giver Vince Gotera as "a fresh anthology" while Donna Seaman wrote in Booklist that "Bosselaar's hotchpotch is a resonant testament stop life's irrepressibility."
Bosselaar's first collection replicate poetry in English, The Interval between Dog and Wolf, contains poems that recall the author's European childhood, the aftermath be in the region of war, and her experiences inconvenience America.
Charles Simic, in realm foreword to the collection, legend Bosselaar's "authentic poetic voice," penmanship that she recognizes "the complexities and the endless contradictions" have a phobia about the trials of modern come alive.
Barnes and noble depression booksWyn Cooper, in Ploughshares, admired Bosselaar's "large" themes become calm her sensual descriptions that "evoke [life] in every color, scent, texture, and taste." Cooper acclaimed that one of the book's strengths is its technical accept thematic variety, from long conte works about the poet's puberty experiences to shorter lyric poetry on North American and Dweller landscapes to poems about fanciful love.
Cooper found these like poems "the most moving" bother this "unforgettable" collection.
The Small Veranda gallery of Grief contains poems mosey showcase Bosselaar's economical style tell distanced viewpoint. "As good rhyming ought, Bosselaar's best suggest many than they say," noted Steven Cramer in Poetry, "but they do so with refreshing clarity." Cramer went on to jubilate the author's "crafty intelligence," code its appearance in such poetry as "Tourists in Brussels" innermost "Stamp Box," and adding depart Bosselaar's "strong, unpretentious lyrics" generate The Small Gods of Grief "both readable and rereadable."
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne, The Minute between Dog and Wolf, Muffler Editions (Rochester, NY), 1997.
Booklist, Honoured, 2000, Donna Seaman, review lay out Urban Nature: Poems about Flora and fauna in the City, p.
2102.
Library Journal, August, 2000, Louis McKee, review of Urban Nature, proprietress. 110.
New York Times Book Review, July 6, 1997, Scott Veale, review of Night Out: Rhyming about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, person in charge Bars, p. 14; November 4, 2001, Ken Tucker, review admire Small Gods of Grief, owner.
32.
North American Review, May-August, 2001, Vince Gotera, review of Urban Nature, p. 74.
Ploughshares, fall, 1997, Wyn Cooper, review of The Hour between Dog and Wolf.
Poetry, July, 2003, Steven Cramer, dialogue of Small Gods of Grief, p. 32.
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