Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Deborah Digges] won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from

New York University for her first book, "Vesper Sparrows," and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for her 1995 book "Rough Music." She grew up in Missouri.

Other books by Digges include the memoir "Fugitive Spring," published by Knopf in 1989, and "The Stardust Lounge," a volume described as stories about a boy's adolescence, published by Random House in 2000.

"Deborah was a person who always saw the world in terms of creativity," said Lee Edelman, longtime colleague at Tufts University, where Digges taught. "Anyone reading her work will encounter a mind that is fascinated with the particularities of the world."

from Amherst Bulletin: Admirers remember Deborah Digges, gifted poet

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