Brewster Ghiselin

Brewster Ghiselin (June 13, 1903 – June 11, 2002) was an American poet and academic.

Ghiselin was born in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. At the age of sixteen he moved to California, where he lived until 1934. He then went on to be a member of the English faculty at the University of Utah, where he taught English. He was also responsible for creating the Utah Writer's Conference in 1947, where he remained its director until 1966.

He published Against the Circle in 1946. The poem "Rattlesnake" from this book of poems is mentioned in Richard Hugo's Triggering Town, a book of lectures and essays on the writing of poetry. In 1970, he published the book Country of the Minotaur, a compilation of many of his poems.

In 1952, Ghiselin edited The Creative Process, a symposium of the writings of some thirty-eight men and women, including Katherine Anne Porter, Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh, D. H. Lawrence, etc., on the creative process.[1] [2]

References

  1. ↑ Brewster Ghiselin The Creative Process, University of California Press, 1985 ISBN 978-0-520-05453-0
  2. ↑ Brewster Ghiselin Country of the Minotaur, University of Utah Press, 1970 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-116761


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