Lawrence Raab

Lawrence Raab (born 1946, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American poet.

Raab graduated from Middlebury College in 1968, and from Syracuse University with an MA in 1972.^[1] He taught at American University (1970 to 71), University of Michigan, and Williams College (1976 to present).^[2] His work has appeared in The New Yorker ^[3] and the Virginia Quarterly Review.^[4] He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.^[5]

• 1992 National Poetry Series, for What we don't know about each other
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[6]

• Mysteries of the Horizon. Doubleday. 1974.
• The collector of cold weather. Ecco Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-912946-32-0.
• Other children: poems . Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1987.
• What we don't know about each other. Penguin Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0-14-058701-2.
• The probable world. Penguin. 2000. ISBN 978-0-14-058921-4.
• Winter at the Caspian Sea (with Stephen Dunn). Palanquin Press. 2002. ISBN 1-891508-24-5.
• Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems. Tandem Library. 2003. ISBN 978-1-4177-0463-7.
• The History of Forgetting. Penguin Group. 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-311582-3.
• A Cup of Water Turns into a Rose. Adastra Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9838-2384-1.
• Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts. Tupelo Press, Inc. 2015. ISBN 978-1-9367-9765-3.

• "Marriage", Poetry, November 1990
• "Cold Spring", Poetry Foundation
• "Camouflage", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2003
• "Saint George’s Dragon", Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2003
• "A Night’s Museum", Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1977
• Audio: Lawrence Raab reads Two Riddles from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
• A series of correspondence between poet Lawrence Raab and novelist Jonathan Baumbach for InDigest
• Lawrence Raab papers at Williams College Archives & Special Collections

• 1946 births
• Living people
• American male poets
• University of Michigan faculty

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