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David Lehman
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Master's degree, Cambridge University, PhD in English, Columbia University. The Evening Sun (Scribner, 2002) and The Daily Mirror are the most recent of his five books of poetry. He is also author of five books of critical prose, including The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, and The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection. He founded The Best American Poetry in 1988 and continues as series editor of this prestigious anthology. He also edited Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003) and co-edited The KGB Bar Book of Poems, based on the reading series he and Star Black directed in New York's East Village. Lehman became general editor of the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry series in 1994. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a three-year writer's award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. He is presently working on a new edition of the Oxford Book of American Poetry.
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