Kevin Prufer

Kevin Prufer

Kevin Prufer (* 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) ist ein amerikanischer Dichter, Herausgeber und Essayist.

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Prufer schloss seine Studien mit einem B.A. an der Wesleyan University und dem M.A. an der Hollins University ab. Danach ging er an die Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri und erlangte dort den M.F.A..

Heute (2011) ist Prufer Professor für die englische Sprache an der University of Houston und Herausgeber der Literaturzeitschrift Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Für sein Werk wurde er mit Preisen und einem Stipendium des National Endowment for the Arts in der Sparte Literatur ausgezeichnet.

Prufer lebt in Houston, Texas zusammen mit der Künstlerin und Kritikerin Mary Hallab.

Veröffentlichungen

  • In A Beautiful Country, Four Way Books, 2011
  • Cocktail: ausgewählte Gedichte, luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2008 ISBN 978-3-939557-36-4
  • National Anthem, Four Way Books, 2008
  • Fallen from a Chariot, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005
  • The Finger Bone, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002
  • Strange Wood, Louisiana State University Press, 1998

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  1. ↑ Herz der Helligkeit in: FAZ vom 21. Juni 2011, Seite 30

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