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Vern Rutsala at his Northeast Metropolis home cut down 2005.
(The Oregonian)
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Archives West Finding Aid
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title. Folder entries note where the poem was published.
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
"Adelfina" Three drafts; three full sheets and one small sheet. Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Summer 1986.
"After the Dog Died" Five drafts; seven sheets. Portland Review, June 1994.
"Against Telephones" Six drafts; five sheets. College English, December 1986.
"Airport Thoughts" Ten drafts; fifteen sheets. Unpublished?
"All Day" One draft. Four sheets. Unpublished?
"An American Morning" Three drafts; three sheets. Poetry, January 1985.
"American Names" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Summer 1986; Moment's Equation (2004).
"American Song" Twelve drafts; twenty-three sheets. Unpublished?
"Angels" Six drafts; ten sheets. Unpublished?
"Another Night" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
"Another of the Lost" Two drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
"Approaching 1934
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Vern Rutsala
American poet
Vern Rutsala (February 5, 1934 – April 2, 2014) was an American poet. Born in McCall, Idaho,[1] he was educated at Reed College (B.A.) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.). He taught English and creative writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon for more than forty years, before retiring in 2004. He also taught for short periods at the University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, University of Redlands, and the University of Idaho, and served in the U.S. Army, 1956–58. He died in Oregon on April 2, 2014.[2]
Books
[edit]- The Window (1964)
- Small Songs: A Sequence, Stone Wall Press (1969)
- The Harmful State (1971)
- Laments (1975)
- The Journey Begins (1976)
- Paragraphs (1978)
- The New Life (1978)
- Walking Home from the Icehouse (1981)
- The Mystery of the Lost Shoes (1985)
- Backtracking (1985)
- Ruined Cities (1987)
- Selected Poems (1991)
- Little-known Sports (1994)
- The Moment's Equation (2004)
- A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems (2004)
- How We Spent Our Time (2006)
- The Long Haul (2015)