Elizabeth Willis

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Elizabeth Willis (born April 28, 1961, Bahrain) is an American poet and literary critic. She currently serves as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Willis has won several awards for her poetry including the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Susan Howe has called Elizabeth Willis “an exceptional poet, one of the most outstanding of her generation.”

Willis has been awarded fellowships from the California Arts Council and the Howard Foundation and has won the National Poetry Series, the PEN New England Award and the Boston Review Prize for Poetry. In 2012, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. Willis lives in Iowa City.

Willis grew up in the Midwestern United States and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She then earned a Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo.

Of Address, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright wrote that the collection was “humorous, political, engaged, and deeply resonant.” Michael Palmer wrote that the book movingly engages “eternal issues.” Alice Notley wrote that “Willis newly revives the list/litany form, and that works to the reader’s delight.”

In a review of Turneresque, the Denver Quarterly reported that Willis “succeeds…in reinvesting language with the uniqueness of origin: the breath gesture of each letter.” Ann Lauterbach wrote that Willis “recovers the originating lyric impulse into a haunting contemporary song. This is poetry of amazing intelligence and grace.” Cole Swensen wrote, “What drives Willis’s incisive commentary into stunning poetry are her gorgeous lines…Despite a distinctly noir atmosphere and the unsettling quality that always attends the sublime, Turneresque comes off as affirmative, even jocularly courageous. It seems – to borrow one of its phrases – “to imply or intone whole possibility of human sun.”

Her literary criticism is concerned with 19th century and 20th century poetry and the ways in which changing technology comes to influence the production of poetry. She also investigates the effects of public and private spaces in her prose. Additionally, Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics and the relationship between contemporary poets and antecedent poets are also frequent concerns of her work. Willis has dedicated a significant portion of her career to a study of the works of Lorine Niedecker.

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