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Michael Palmer

Bio

Michael Palmer was born into an Italian-American family in Manhattan in 1943 and has lived in San Francisco since 1969.  He has taught at numerous universities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and has published translations from a variety of languages, in particular French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. He has been involved in joint projects with many visual artists and composers in the United States and elsewhere and has also served as an artistic collaborator with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for close to fifty years. Palmer's honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and he was awarded the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award. In 1999, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Michael Palmer Books

Arrivederci Sicily book cover

Arrivederci Sicily

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A Heartbeat Away book cover

A Heartbeat Away

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Under the Marula Tree book cover

Under the Marula Tree

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No Cappuccino in the Afternoon book cover

No Cappuccino in the Afternoon

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The Danish Notebook book cover

The Danish Notebook

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The Last Green Flash book cover

The Last Green Flash

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Little Elegies for Sister Satan book cover

Little Elegies for Sister Satan

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The First Family book cover

The First Family

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Disfigured book cover

Disfigured

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The New Life book cover

The New Life

Dante Alighieri
The Laughter of the Sphinx book cover

The Laughter of the Sphinx

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Mercy book cover

Mercy

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Trauma book cover

Trauma

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Resistant book cover

Resistant

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Political Suicide book cover

Political Suicide

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On Call book cover

On Call

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Oath of Office book cover

Oath of Office

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Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization book cover

Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization

Lee Trepanier
First Thrills: Volume 1 book cover

First Thrills: Volume 1

Lee Child
Flashback book cover

Flashback

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