Elton Glaser
Encyclopedia
Life
He is a native of New Orleans, teaches at the University of AkronUniversity of Akron
The University of Akron is a coeducational public research university located in Akron, Ohio, United States. The university is part of the University System of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a small college affiliated with the Universalist Church. In 1913 ownership was transferred to the City of...
, and edits the Akron Series in Poetry.
He lives in Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...
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Awards
- 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White"
- 2002 Crab Orchard AwardCrab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition AwardsThe Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards are relatively large prizes given out each year to poets with unpublished manuscripts. In addition to the cash prizes, two winners get published by a university press....
Works
- "The Coefficient of Drag"; "Exhaustion"; "Least Resistance"; "Regression Analysis", Poetry Magazine, Spring 2006
- "Meditation in Blue and White", Marlboro Review, 2002
Reviews
Elton Glaser's third book of poems, Color Photographs of the Ruins, has the virtue of being relentlessly true to itself. Mr. Glaser rants against contemporary poetry --
"Nuclear ecstasy on the picket line; /
Another homily on hominy; the lacquer of tears /
Sealing in the wrath of wronged women"
-- and it's easy to see why, since his poetry exists in some lower circle of hell. His book is so bad-tempered, without joy, that it makes one wonder what to make of our era and its poetry. Mr. Glaser is an angry and forceful poet, who uses wit and contempt as a double-edged sword.