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How Shall a Generation Know Its Story: The Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition April 11, 2003
Edgar Bowers wrote some of the most hauntingly beautiful poems of his generation. Born in Georgia in 1924, he served during the Second World War in Bavaria with the counter intelligence corps of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. After the war, he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina and then earned his doctorate at Stanford University under the tutelage of the eminent poet and critic Yvor Winters.
Bowers taught for 33 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and published five collections of poems. His poetry earned him several distinctions, including the Bollingen Prize—an honor that placed him in the company of W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf published his Collected Poems in 1997. Bowers died in San Francisco in 2000.
The April 2003 conference brought together poets, critics, and friends of Edgar Bowers for a day of scholarly discussions and readings of his poetry. In addition, the Department of Special Collections launched an exhibition of items culled from its extensive Edgar Bowers archive. The exhibition may be viewed online at:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/bowers.htm
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PAPERS FROM 2003
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| Barbara Bundy (April 11, 2003) Remembering Edgar Bowers: The Years of Friendship with Elroy L. Bundy, 1967-1975 |
| Dick Davis (April 11, 2003) Edgar Bowers and England |
| Suzanne Doyle (April 11, 2003) Inviting a Friend to Supper |
| Joshua Mehigan (April 11, 2003) Introduction to Poetry |
| Leslie Monsour (April 11, 2003) Punished Happiness: Themes of Change and Loss in "Amor Vincit Omnia" and "The Falls" |
| Steven Shankman (April 11, 2003) "That you Might Have My Witness in Your Poem": Valéry, the Symbolist Tradition, and Bowers' Later Blank Verse |
| Robert B. Shaw (April 11, 2003) Autumn Shade: The Art of the Sequence |
| Kevin Smith (April 11, 2003) Intelligence perfecting the mute keys: Edgar Bowers and Music |
| Timothy Steele (April 11, 2003) From Persona Poem to Person Poem: Edgar Bowers' "Mary" |
| David Yezzi (April 11, 2003) Edgar Bowers & Allen Tate |
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