Helen Chasin

Helen S. Chasin (19382015) was an American poet.[1]

Life

Chasin grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

She attended Radcliffe College and studied with Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell,[2] and John Nims.[3] She taught at Emerson College, where Thomas Lux was her student.[4]

In 1973, she edited Iowa Review.[5]

Her work appeared in The Missouri Review.[6] New York Quarterly,[7] Paris Review,[8]

She lived in Rockport, Massachusetts.[9] She died June 10, 2015 in New York City.

Awards

Works

  • "Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe", Blue Ridge Journal
  • Casting Stones. Little, Brown. 1975. ISBN 978-0-316-13822-2.
  • Coming Close (Yale University Press, 1968) reprint. AMS Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-404-53863-7.
  • "The Word Plum"

Anthologies

References

  1. "HELEN CHASIN's Obituary". New York Times. June 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  2. David Laskin (2001). Partisans: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46893-8.
  3. "AuthorBio".
  4. "Details, Details", The Atlantic, Peter Swanson, December 8, 2004
  5. Hamilton, David B. (1996). Hard Choices. ISBN 9780877455363.
  6. "The Missouri Review".
  7. http://www.nyquarterly.org/issues/?id=19
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Helen Chasin".
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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