Ohio Apertures - Miltner, Robert

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Résumé :
Robert Miltner's Ohio Apertures is a collection of brief pieces of creative nonfiction that turns its attention to northeast Ohio's position as both a Great Lakes state and the north coast of America. Its two dozen selections, which include flash memoir, lyric essays, narrative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, travel writing, and historical excavations of place, trace the author's life from early childhood onward, offering a template for understanding the impact of place, region, family, literacy, and cultural influence on the shaping of a Midwest identity.

Biographie:
Robert Miltner is the author of two books of prose poetry, Hotel Utopia and Orpheus & Echo, poetry chapbooks including Against the Simple, Queen Mab and the Moon Boy, Imperative, and Eurydice Rising, and the short story collection And Your Bird Can Sing. He has co-edited three scholarly collections of critical essays, and is the founding editor of The Raymond Carver Review.Miltner is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Poetry, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, and a writing residency at Wassaic Project. His writing has received a Wick Chapbook Award from Kent State University, a Many Voices Project in Poetry Award from New Rivers Press, and a Summer Chapbook Award from Red Berry Fine Press Editions, and he has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence, the New York Center for the Book chapbook prize, and the Ohioana Award in Poetry. He has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Award.A professor emeritus of English at Kent State University Stark and the NEOMFA in Creative Writing, Miltner lives in Northeast Ohio with his wife, the writer Molly Fuller.

Sommaire:
Robert Miltner is an emeritus professor from Kent State University Stark and the Northeast Ohio MFA and the author of three books of prose poetry: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry Prize), Orpheus & Echo (Etruscan Press ), and Cicatrix Vortex Codex (MadHat Press, forthcoming), as well as chapbooks including Against the Simple (Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize) and Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Fine Press Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize). His short story collection is And Your Bird Can Sing (Bottom Dog Press) and his nonfiction collection is Ohio Apertures (Cornerstone Press). He has been recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Award for Poetry and an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, and has recently been Poet-in-Residence at the Chautauqua Institution and Visiting Scholar on Contemporary American Poetry at the University of Paris East, France....