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William Harmon ( 1938 - ) is James Gordon Hanes Professor of the Humanities at the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill , author of five books of poetry and editor of ''A Handbook to Literature''. His most recent poetry has appeared in ''Blink'' and ''Light''.


LIFE

William Harmon was born in 's William Carlos Williams Award in 1985 .

Harmon donated an extensive set of correspondences (over 10,000 items, deemed the William Harmon Papers) to the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library (located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina ). The letters document Harmon's discussions with a range of other poets including A.R. Ammons , John Ashbery , Robert Bly , Robert Creeley , John Hollander , Richard Wilbur , and Robert Penn Warren .


WORKS

Poetry
  • ''Mutatis Mutandis: 27 Invoices'' ( 1985 )

  • ''One Long Poem'' ( 1982 )

  • ''The Intussusception of Miss Mary America'' ( 1976 )

  • ''Legion: Civic Choruses'' ( 1973 )

  • ''Treasury Holiday : Thirty-Four Fits for the Opening of the Fiscal Year'' ( 1970 )



Edited Anthologies
  • ''A Handbook to Literature'' (5th - 10th Editions) ( 1986 - 2005 )

  • ''Classic Writings on Poetry'' ( 2005 )

  • ''The Classic Hundred: All-Time Favorite Poems'' (2nd Edition) ( 1998 )

  • ''The Top 500 Poems'' ( 1992 )

  • ''The Oxford book of American light verse'' ( 1979 )



Literary Criticism
  • ''Time in Ezra Pound's Work'' ( 1977 )


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