Hank Lazer

Hank Lazer has contributed poetry, critical prose, and reviews to the VQR since 1973. Elegies & Vacations (Salt Publishing, 2004), Hank Lazer’s eleventh book of poetry, is his fourth large collection of poetry, following Days (Lavender Ink, 2002), 3 of 10 (Chax Press, 1996), and Doublespace: Poems 1971-1989 (Segue, 1992). A noted critic, Lazer’s two-volume Opposing Poetries (Northwestern University Press) appeared in 1996. With Charles Bernstein, Lazer edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama, where Lazer is Assistant Vice President and Professor of English.

Hank Lazer’s website is at as.ua.edu/english/faculty/lazer_h.htm.

Published in VQR

• Prayer, Summer 2003
• From Days, Summer 1997
• Poetry and Thought: the Example of Czeslaw Milosz, Summer 1988
• The Heart of Light, Autumn 1983
• The Rose Garden, Summer 1983
• Vulture, Autumn 1977
• Letting the Fence Fall, Spring 1977
• Ode to Vowels (Primarily O and U), Summer 1975
• Point Sur, Summer 1975