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Lisa Russ Spaar

リサ・ラス・スパール

Risa Rasu Spāru

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Charlottesville, Virginia

Career

Occupations
poet, professor, essayist
Active Years
1978-2024
Affiliations
Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Virginia
Nominations
1997 National Poetry Series Finalist

Education

University of Virginia
English Department
Degree: B.A.
Year of Graduation: 1978
Country: United States
summa cum laude
University of Virginia
School of Creative Writing / Poetry
Degree: M.F.A.
Year of Graduation: 1980
Country: United States

Awards

Pushcart Prize
2016
Work: Temple Gaudete
Category: Poetry
Organization: Pushcart Prize Editors
Result: winner
Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize
2011
Category: Poetry
Result: winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
2010
Category: Poetry
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: fellow
Emily Clark Balch Award
2001
Organization: Virginia Quarterly Review
Result: winner
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
2000
Work: Glass Town
Category: Emerging Women Writers
Organization: Rona Jaffe Foundation
Result: winner
Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artists Award
1996
Organization: Virginia Commission for the Arts
Result: winner
Academy of American Poets Prize
1978
Organization: University of Virginia
Result: winner
Hoyns Fellowship
1980
Category: Poetry
Organization: University of Virginia
Result: fellow

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Orexia

2017 poetry

Vanitas, Rough

2012 poetry

Satin Cash

2008 poetry

Blue Venus

2004 poetry

Glass Town

1999 poetry

Bibliography

  • Past grief
  • Cellar
  • Blind Boy on Skates
  • Glass Town
  • Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems
  • Blue Venus
  • The Land of Wandering
  • All That Mighty Heart: London Poems
  • Satin Cash
  • Vanitas, rough
  • The Hide-and-Seek Muse
  • Monticello in Mind
  • Orexia
  • More Truly & More Strange
  • Madrigalia
  • Paradise Close

Style & Themes

Literary Style
contemporary poetic voicelyrical intensity
Recurring Motifs
urban imageryspirituality

Legacy

Recognized as a significant voice in contemporary American poetry, recipient of numerous awards, teaches poetry writing at the University of Virginia. Poetry collections published by Persea Books and others, active in criticism and editing.

Trivia

  • Won the 2016 Pushcart Prize for her poem 'Temple Gaudete'.