Jason Sommer

Jason Sommer is an American poet and academic.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Translations 3.2 Anthologies 4 References

Life

He graduated from Brandeis University, Stanford University (where he held the Mirrielees Fellowship in Poetry), and St. Louis University. He taught at St. Louis University, Webster University, and University College, Dublin.

His work appeared in AGNI,^[1] The New Republic, Ploughshares,^[2] TriQuarterly.^[3]

Since 1985 he has taught at Fontbonne University.^[4]

Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities grant
• 2001 Whiting Writers' Award.

Works

• "The Ballad of Fighting With My Father". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1677. 

• Lifting the Stone. Forest Books. January 1, 1991. ISBN 9780948259944. 
• Other People's Troubles. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 9780226768168. http://books.google.com/?id=qtBmcE-BAGYC&dq=Jason+Sommer&printsec=frontcover&q=. 
• The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. University of Chicago Press. 2004. ISBN 9780226768052. http://books.google.com/?id=QsfABqlL2CYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jason+Sommer#v=onepage&q=. 

Translations

• Wang Xiabobo (2007). Wang in love and bondage: three novellas. Translators Jason Sommer, Hongling Zhang. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791470657. http://books.google.com/?id=0oLwfcF1yG8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jason+Sommer#v=onepage&q=. 

Anthologies

• Michael Collier, ed (2000). The New American Poets. UPNE. ISBN 9780874519648. 

References

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