Jason Sommer
Jason Sommer is an American poet and academic.
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 Award
Works
- "The Ballad of Fighting With My Father". Ploughshares. Spring 1984. Archived from the original on March 29, 2005.
- Lifting the Stone. Forest Books. January 1, 1991. ISBN 978-0-948259-94-4.
- Other People's Troubles. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-76816-8.
- The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. University of Chicago Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-226-76805-2.
- The Laughter of Adam and Eve. Southern Illinois University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0809332786.
Translations
- Wang Xiabobo (2007). Wang in love and bondage: three novellas. Translators Jason Sommer, Hongling Zhang. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7065-7.
Anthologies
- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.
References
External links
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