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. Laskin, David (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. "NYQ".
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.{{cite web}}: 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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