Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Deborah] Digges's writings garnered a wealth of honors,

including the Pushcart Prize, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She taught graduate writing classes at New York, Boston, and Columbia universities.

Her first book of poetry, "Vesper Sparrows" won the 1987 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the best first book published in the past two years. She also wrote a memoir, "The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescence," about her son Stephen's teenage years.

A forthcoming book of poems, "Dance of the Seven Veils" was scheduled to be published this fall, the university said. She was also working on a historical novel based on the life of Sarah Winchester.

from The Boston Globe: Tufts mourns acclaimed poet, professor
also The Republican: Poet, Tufts professor Deborah Digges of Amherst an apparent suicide at UMass stadium
also The Tufts Daily: Deborah Digges, poet and Tufts English professor, dies at 59
also One Poet's Notes: Remembering Deborah Digges

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