Richard Tillinghast

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Richard Tillinghast (born [[1940 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the author of seven books of poetry as well as Damaged Grandeur, a critical memoir of the poet Robert Lowell, whom he studied with as a graduate student at Harvard University in the mid-1960s. His most recent poetry collection is Six Mile Mountain, published in 2000. Two other recent books of poetry are The Stonecutter's Hand (1995) and Today in the Cafe Trieste (1997), new and selected poems issued by Salmon Publishing in Ireland. In 1997 he also edited A Visit to the Gallery, a collection of poems written in response to paintings at the Museum of Art at the University of Michigan. For twenty years he has reviewed new poetry for the New York Times Book Review. He also reviews and writes literary essays for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New Criterion, as well as writing travel articles for the Times. His poems have appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and Poetry, as well as online on Slate and Poetry Daily. In addition, his poems were featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR show, "The Writer's Almanac."

A faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Michigan since its inception in 1983, he is also a Director of The Poets' House in Ireland. Tillinghast also does performance poetry; he released a poetry/music CD, "My Only Friends Were the Wolves," with the Ann Arbor-based jazz fusion band Poignant Plecostomus in 1997. Richard is now retired and lives in Ireland.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

• Sleep Watch, Wesleyan University Press, 1969
• (Contributor) Ten American Poets, Carcanet Press, 1974.
• The Knife and Other Poems, Wesleyan University Press, 1980.
• Sewanee in Ruins, illustrated by Edward Carlos, University of the South, 1981.
• Fossils, Metal, and the Blue Limit, White Creek Press, 1982.
• Our Flag Was Still There (contains Sewanee in Ruins), Wesleyan University Press, 1984.
• A Quiet Pint in Kinvara, Salmon Publishing/Tir Eolas (Galway, Ireland), 1991.
• The Stonecutter's Hand, David R. Godine, 1995.
• Today in the Cafe Trieste, Salmon Publishing, 1997.
• Six Mile Mountain, Story Line Press, 2000.

[edit] Memoir

• Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
• An extended autobiographical essay commissioned by Gale Research can be found in Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series, vol. 23, published in 1997.[1]