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Grace Schulman is the recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her ninth book of poems is Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022. She is the author of a memoir, Strange Paradise:Portrait of a Marriage, and an essay collection, First Loves and Other Adventures. Editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore, she is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Baruch College, C.U.N.Y. She is the translator, from the Hebrew, of The Poems of T. Carmi, and co-translator, from the Spanish, of Songs of Cifar, by Pablo Antonio Cuadra.Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and six Pushcart Prizes. About her poems, Harold Bloom has written, "Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation." Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1974-84, and former poetry editor of The Nation, 1971-2006.
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