A01=Ralph Angel
Author_Ralph Angel
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Federico Garca Lorca translator
forthcoming
Mary Ruefle
Ralph Angel
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- ISBN 9781965154199
- Dimensions: 127 x 177mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Black Ocean
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The final posthumous collection of Angel’s poetry offers spare lyrics set in an urban landscape that seems timeless, universal, and historical.
In his own words, Ralph Angel described poetry as “the language for which we have no language.” Across his more than seven books of poetry, Angel’s work has been distinguished by his attention to the spare lyric, at once abstract and philosophical. These are poems that sit at the intersection of immediacy and meditation, offering a thoughtful companionship to the reader.
Even Blood is Angel’s final collection of poems, distilling his lifelong engagement with poetry and showcasing the power of his vivid imagery, sharp diction, and attention to structure, no matter how slight.
Ralph Angel (1951–2020) was the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor at the University of Redlands, where he shaped the Creative Writing Department and taught for 39 years, and a member of the MFA in Writing Faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His last collection of poems, Your Moon, was awarded the Green Rose Poetry Prize. Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 received the PEN USA Poetry Award, and his Neither World won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. In addition to five books of poetry, he also published an award-winning translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song. His later work included entropia, a collection of thirty-one fine art images, and Strays, a limited-edition chapbook of poems.
