Bin Ramke
Lloyd Binford Ramke (born 19 February 1947 Port Neches, Texas) is an American poet, and editor.[1]
Life
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by W.T. Pfefferle
He graduated from at Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D. He taught at Columbus College.
He was editor of the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poetry Series, from 1984 to 2005. In 2005, he became involved in the Contemporary Poetry Series controversy about Jorie Graham's selection of Peter Sacks. He resigned as editor.
He teaches at the University of Denver. He edits the literary magazine Denver Quarterly.[2] He lives in Denver with his wife, Linda, a fiction writer, and their son, Nic.
Awards
Works
- "Nothing Prior to Anything"; "Hear Here"; "Poor in World", Tarpaulin Sky, Fall/Winter 06
- "Was It Fallen It Was a Floating World "; "It Was Fallen Was It a Floating World", Electronic Poetry Review #8
- "Who Is Dying", Electronic Poetry Review #8
- "Lies", Electronic Poetry Review #8
- "The Naming of Shadows and Colors", Electronic Poetry Review #7
- "Livery of Seisin", Electronic Poetry Review #1
- "Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape", Poetry Foundation
- "Better Late than Never", Poetry Foundation
- "Chivalric", Poetry Foundation
- "Cinema Verité", Poetry Foundation
- "Melting Pot", Poetry Foundation
- "The Center for Atmospheric Research", Poetry Foundation
- "Trouble Deaf Heaven", Poetry Foundation
- "Anomalies of Water"; "Custody of the Eyes"; "How it Feels, and Why", Salt Magazine, Issue 2
- The Difference Between Night and Day. Yale University Press. 1978. ISBN 9780300022322.
- White Monkeys. University of Georgia Press. 1981. ISBN 9780820305448.
- The Language Student. Louisiana State University Press. 1986. ISBN 9780807113448.
- The Erotic Light of Gardens. Wesleyan University Press. 1989. ISBN 9780819521712.
- Massacre of the Innocents. University of Iowa Press. 1995. ISBN 9780877454922.
- Wake. University of Iowa Press. 1999. ISBN 9780877456582.
- Airs, Waters, Places. University of Iowa Press. 2001. ISBN 9780877457763.
- Matter. University of Iowa Press. 2004. ISBN 9780877459002.
- Tendril. Omnidawn Pub. 2007. ISBN 9781890650261.
Anthologies
- "How Light is Spent". The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. 1995. ISBN 9780684801513.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Quill. 1985. ISBN 9780688034504.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - "A Little Ovid Late in the Day; A Livery of Seisin; A Theory of Fantasy". The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. 1999. ISBN 9780874519501.
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Criticism
Reviews
Few things are as delightfully overwhelming as the ceaseless, heartbreaking webs of possibility and verse that Bin Ramke whirls. In an interview in February of last year, Ramke foretold the strange magics employed in his most recent book, Matter. Preparing to write this review, I had to dig the thing up from its sloppy filing.[3]