Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney (September 9, 1945 – January 6, 2009) was an American writer, editor, and poet. He was born in

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. He was a graduate of the

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in Seattle where he studied under the poet and professor Nelson Bentley. Bentley had been a student of

Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ''The Wa ...

and

W.H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

. As editor-in-chief of Raven's Mask Press and Bonefire Press, Maloney later published two notable works by Nelson Bentley: ''A Day at North Cove'', Raven's Mask Press, Seattle, 1974 and ''Grayland Apocalypse'', Bonefire Press, Seattle, 1972 Frank Maloney's work is featured in the anthology, ''The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press.'' In 1974, Copper Canyon Press also published Maloney's best-known work, ''How to Eat a Slug''.

Bibliography

* ''How to Eat a Slug'', Copper Canyon Press, 1974. . * ''The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry'', Copper Canyon Press, 1996. .

External links

Brief profile at PBS

Brief obituary at Seattle Gay News
1945 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1940s-stub