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Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, Departure, and Ghost in a Red Hat. She has been awarded the Sara Teasdale Prize for Poetry, three Pushcart Prizes, the Readers’ Digest Award and the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters (Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize), the Academy of American Poets (Lamont Poetry Prize and the Lavan Younger Poets Prize), the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New England Poetry Club (May Sarton Prize) and the Nation Discovery Award. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

Rosanna Warren

Books by Rosanna Warren

Each Leaf Shines Separate
Rosanna Warren
Paperback, 1984
Stained Glass
Rosanna Warren
Paperback, 1995
Departure: Poems
Rosanna Warren
Paperback, 2005
"An important poet...beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets."—Harold Bloom
Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry
Rosanna Warren
Hardback, 2008
A landmark work—part personal narrative, part critical exploration—by a distinguished American poet.
Ghost in a Red Hat: Poems
Rosanna Warren
Hardback, 2011
"An important poet . . . beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets."—Harold Bloom
Ghost in a Red Hat: Poems
Rosanna Warren
Paperback, 2022
“Achieves a delicate balance between structural solidity and movement. . . . Warren’s latest poems tend to veil their complexity in understatement.”—Harvard Review
So Forth: Poems
Rosanna Warren
Hardback, 2020
A lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Rosanna Warren
Hardback, 2020
A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame.
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Rosanna Warren
E Book, 2020
A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame.
So Forth: Poems
Rosanna Warren
E Book, 2020
A lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).