Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Turco (370 kB)

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Putnam Turco. Attic, Shed, and Barn is the twenty-fourth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Lewis Turco is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, known to three generations of poets and students of poetry as “the poet’s Bible.” He was founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Creative Writing Program at the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968 from which he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1996. He took his B. A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received a first honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University, and a second in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His poems, essays, stories and plays have appeared in most of the major literary periodicals over more than a half-century, and in over one hundred books and anthologies. Of his fifty books, chapbooks and monographs, his volume of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and his A Book of Fears: Poems, with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998. His most recent volumes are The Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004; Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007; The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories 2008; Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs, both published in 2009. 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., and in 2007 the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award given by the West Chester University Poetry Conference.