William Corbett

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William Corbett (born in 1942) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and educator. He has served as Writer-in-Residence in the Program of Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He edits the small press Pressed Wafer which specializes in poetry broadsides, chapbooks and books.

Corbett has edited the letters of James Schuyler and published two memoirs: Philip Guston’s Late Work: A Memoir (1994) and Furthering My Education (1997). He writes frequently on art, and in 1999 published a book on the sculptor John Raimondi. He lives in Boston’s South End and has served as the editor Grand Street.

[edit] Selected publications

  • editor: The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara (Turtle Point Press, 2005)
  • editor: Just The Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991 (Turtle Point Press, 2004) ISBN 1885586302
  • All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews (Zoland Books, 2001) ISBN 1581951027
  • Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999)
  • John Raimondi (Hudson Hills Press, 1999) ISBN 1555951791
  • New York Literary Lights (Graywolf Press, 1998) ISBN 1555972721 (pbk.)
  • Furthering My Education (Zoland Books, 1997) ISBN 0944072747
  • New & Selected Poems (Zoland Books, 1995)
  • Philip Guston’s Late Work: A Memoir (Zoland Books, 1994)
  • Literary New England: A History and Guide (Faber & Faber, 1993)
  • Don’t Think: Look (Zoland Books, 1991)
  • On Blue Note (Zoland Books, 1989) ISBN 0944072062
  • Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation, 1984) ISBN 0915032457
  • Runaway Pond (Applewood Books, 1982) ISBN 0918222265
  • Columbus Square Journal (Angel Hair Books, 1976) ISBN 0935992251

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