In 2004 Star Cloud Press of Scottsdale, Arizona, published both A
Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs and The Collected Lyrics of Lewis
Turco / Wesli Court, the latest books by Lewis Turco who was the
founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry
Center, in 1962, and of the Program in Writing Arts at the State
University of New York, from 1968 through 1995. He is the author of
some 44 books, monographs and chapbooks including The Book of
Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (1968); Awaken, Bells Falling: Poems
1959-1968 (1968); The New Book of Forms (1986); Visions and
Revisions of American Poetry (winner of the Poetry Society of
America's 1986 Melville Cane Award for literary criticism); The
Shifting Web: New and Selected Poems (1989), The Public Poet: Five
Lectures on the Art and Craft of Poetry (1991); and Emily
Dickinson: Woman of Letters, Poems and Centos from Lines in Emily
Dickinson's Letters (1993). He was the 1997 winner, with his
Italian translator Joseph Alessia, of the first annual Bordighera
Bilingual Poetry Prize for his A Book of Fears (1998); a chapbook
of memoirs, Shaking the Family Tree, was published simultaneously.
Mr. Turco has collaborated with various artists over the years. At
S.U.N.Y. Oswego the poet collaborated first in 1966 with the
printmaker Thom. Seawell in three poemprints. Their final
collaboration was on a book, The Inhabitant, poems, with prints by
Thom. Seawell, including the inspiration for the book a fold-out
reproduction of a huge woodcut, "The House," by Seawell, both
projects funded by summer Faculty Fellowships from the Research
Foundation of State University of New York. The book was published
by Despa Press in 1970. "While the SpiderSlept," a ballet based
upon his poem "November 22, 1963," choreographed by Brian Macdonald
with music by Maurice Karkoff, was performed in 1968 and
subsequently by the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet. With the Dutch composer Walter Hekster Lewis Turco wrote
and published a chamber opera, The Fog (Donemus, 1987). Lewis Turco
took the B. A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and the
M. A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 1992 he received a
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Alumni Association of the
University of Connecticut; he was inducted into the Meriden,
Connecticut, Hall of Fame in 1993, and in 1999 he received the John
Ciardi Award for lifetime achievement in poetry sponsored by the
periodical Italian Americana and the National Italian American
Foundation. In May 2000 Mr. Turco received an honorary degree,
Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University in Ohio. In June
2004 he was honored with a panel and gave a reading at the West
Chester University Poetry Conference in Pennsylvania where the book
Lewis Turco and His Work: A Celebration, edited by Steven E.
Swerdfeger, was published by Star Cloud Press. He is listed in
Who's Who in America and in The Encyclopedia of American Literature
among other reference works.
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