John B. Logan (born January 23, 1923,

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– died November 6, 1987,

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) was an American

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and teacher. Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa. He earned a bachelor's degree from

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, his master's degree from the Iowa University, and did graduate work at

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and the

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in philosophy. He authored over 14 books of poetry and essays including ''Spring of the Thief'' (1963) and ''Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream'', which won the

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in 1982. The poet

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has written that Logan was responsible for "creating a new lyricism" through his poetry. Logan taught at many colleges and universities including Saint John's College in Annapolis,

, Saint Mary's College in California, and, finally at the State University of New York, Buffalo. His many students include the poets

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and Bill Knott. He was the poetry editor for ''

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'' and ''Critic''. He also founded and co-edited ''Choice''. Logan died on November 6, 1987, in

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Honors

*Rockefeller Foundation grant *Morton Dauwen Zabel Award *1979 Guggenheim Fellowship *1981 Lenore Marshall/Nation Poetry Prize. *Wayne State University's Miles Modern Poetry Prize

Bibliography

Poetry

*''A Cycle for Mother Cabrini'', (1955) *''Ghosts of the Heart'', (1960) *''Spring of the Thief: Poems 1960-1962'', (1963)
''The Anonymous Lover: New Poems''
W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, *''The Zig Zag Walk: Poems 1963-1968'', (1973) *''Poem In Progress, (1975) *''The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980'', (1979) *''Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream: Selected Poems'', (1981) *''The Transformation: Poems January to March 1981'', (1983)
''John Logan: The Collected Poems''
BOA Editions, Ltd., 1989,

Prose

*''The House That Jack Built: or, A Portrait of the Artist as a Sensualist'', (1974) *''China, Old and New'', (1982) *''A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews'', (1983) *''John Logan: The Collected Fiction'', (1991)

Reviews

FEW of the American poets now in their 50s have placed the personal, the psychological, as squarely at the center of their work as the preceding generation, that of Lowell and Berryman, did. John Logan -three decades of whose work are brought together in these two books - is one of the few.
''The New York Times'', ALAN WILLIAMSON, June 21, 1981

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Logan, John 1923 births 1987 deaths Saint Mary's College of California University of Notre Dame faculty People from Red Oak, Iowa University of Iowa alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Georgetown University alumni St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) faculty Coe College alumni University at Buffalo faculty 20th-century American poets