Xavier University
Literary Reading Series

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XU English Department

Bruce Weigl is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 1999) and After the Others (Triquarterly Press/Northwestern University Press, 1999). He has edited or co-edited three collections of critical essays and an anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction about the consequences of war, Writing Between the Lines, with Kevin Bowen. His three volumes of poetry in translation include Angel Riding a Beast, poems by Liliana Ursu (Northeastern University Press), co-translated from the Romanian with the author, and Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars with Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung. Weigl has been awarded a Patterson Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize twice, an award from the Academy of American Poets, a Yaddo Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment of the Arts grant.

Partial Bibliography

Poetry Books

• Executioner. Tucson: Ironwood Press, 1976.
• A Sack Full of Old Quarrels. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1977.
• A Romance. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.
• The Monkey Wars. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
• Song of Napalm. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
• What Saves Us. Evanston: TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 1992.
• Song of Napalm (poems), The Atlantic Monthly Press, third printing, Summer, 1994.
• What Saves Us (poems), TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, second printing, November, 1994.
• Sweet Lorain. Evanston: TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press April, 1996.
• Lies, Grace, and Redemption (selection of poems from five previously published books and an interview). Ed. Harry Humes and published as a chapbook/special issue of YARROW, a literary magazine, English Department, Kutztown University, 1996.
• Khoang Thoi Gian Khong Ngu (selection of poetry translated into Vietnamese and included in this collection with seven other American writers). Ed. by Nguyen Quang Thieu and translated by Nguyen Quang Thieu, Vuong Trong, Nguyen Tan Viet and Nguyen Hoang Duc, Nha Xuat Ban Hoi Nha Van Publishers, Hanoi, 1996.
• Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems, Grove/Atlantic Press, 1999.
• After the Others, TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 1999.
• The Unraveling Strangeness, November, 2002, Grove/Atlantic Press.
• Declension in the Village of Chung Luong, March, 2006, Ausable Press.

Prose Books

• The Circle of Hanh, A Memoir, Grove/Atlantic Press, June 2000.
• The Circle of Hanh, A Memoir, paperback, Grove/Atlantic Press, 2001.

Criticism

• The Giver of Morning: On Dave Smith (editor). Houston: Thunder City Press, 1983.
• The Imagination as Glory: On the Poetry of James Dickey (co-editor with T.R. Hummer). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
• Pushcart Prize XI- XVII Anthologies: Best of the Small Presses (contributing editor), New York: Pushcart Press, 1987 - 1993.
• Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry (editor). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Anthologies

• Between the Lines: Writing on War and its Social Consequences, eds. Bruce Weigl and Kevin Bowen, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Translations (Books)

• Poems from Captured Documents (co-translator with Nguyen Thanh). Amherst: University of Massachusettes Press, July 1994.
• Mountain River: Poetry from the Vietnam Wars (co-translated and co-edited with Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung), University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
• Angel Riding a Beast: Poems for America, Liliana Ursu (co-translated from the Romanian with the author), forthcoming, 1998, Northwestern University Press, 1998.