Ronald Wallace (poet)

Ronald Wallace is an American poet, and Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry & Halls-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Life[]

He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa He grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the College of Wooster, and the University of Michigan.^[1]

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, and The Paris Review.^[2]

Works[]

• For Dear Life, University of Pittsburgh, 2015
• For a Limited Time Only, University of Pittsburgh, 2008, ISBN 9780822959960
• Now You See it: Poems. UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-893311-57-2.
• Long for this world: new and selected poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, ISBN 9780822958147
• Uses of Adversity, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998, ISBN 9780822938682
• The Makings of Happiness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, ISBN 9780822954484
• People and Dog in the Sun, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987, ISBN 9780822935520
• Tunes for Bears to Dance To, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, ISBN 9780822934813
• Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks, University of Missouri Press, 1982, ISBN 9780826204004

Short story

• Quick bright things: stories, Mid-List Press, 2000, ISBN 9780922811441

Non-fiction

• The last laugh: form and affirmation in the contemporary American comic novel, University of Missouri Press, 1979, ISBN 9780826202741
• God be with the clown: humor in American poetry, University of Missouri Press, 1984, ISBN 9780826204226
• Henry James and the Comic Form. University of Michigan Press, 1975, ISBN 9780472089543

References[]

External links[]

• http://english.wisc.edu/wallace/