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Ralph Angel
Ralph Angel was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1951. The author of Twice Removed (Sarabande Books, 2001); Neither World (Miami University Press, 1995), which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award; and Anxious Latitudes (Wesleyan University Press, 1986), his honors included a Pushcart Prize and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and Poetry magazine. Angel was the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Redlands, and he died in March, 2020.
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