Reginald A. Saner (December 30, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American poet and academic.

Life and career

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Reginald A. Saner was born in Jacksonville, Illinois on December 30, 1928. He graduated from St. Norbert College, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Saner served as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War. He studied at University of Illinois, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Florence.

In the early 1960s he married Anne.[1]

From September 1962 to December 1998, he taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.[2]

Saner lived in Boulder, Colorado.[3] He died there at his home on April 29, 2021, at the age of 92.[4]

Awards

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Works

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Poetry

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  • Climbing into the roots: poems. Harper & Row. 1976. ISBN 978-0-06-013762-5.
  • So This Is the Map. Random House. 1981. ISBN 978-0-394-51668-4.
  • Essay On Air. Ohio Review. 1984. ISBN 978-0-942148-03-9.
  • Red Letters (1981)

Non-fiction

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Anthologies

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  • Lorrie Goldensohn, ed. (2006). American war poetry: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13310-4.
  • Short Takes (Norton, 2005)
  • Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism (Persea, 2004)
  • Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University of Utah Press, 2000)
  • Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999)
  • Generations. Penguin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-14-058784-5.

References

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  1. ^ "Colorado Poets Center : Reg Saner". www.unco.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-10-04.
  2. ^ "Renowned CU Poet Reg Saner Named Boulder Poet Laureate". May 18, 1999.
  3. ^ "Reg Saner". 28 May 1981.
  4. ^ "Reginald A. Saner". Legacy. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

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