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DAVID IGNATOW has published sixteen volumes of poetry and three prose collections. Born in Brooklyn he has lived most of his life in the New York metropolitan area. At various times workig as the editor of The American Poetry Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal, poetry editor of The Nation, and co-editor of Chelsea. He has taught at Columbia, The New School for Social Research, the University of Kentucky, the University of Kansas, York College of the City University of New York, New York University and Vassar College. The National Institute of Arts and Letters has presented to Mr. Ignatow an award "for a lifetime of creative effort. Ignatow is also the recipient of the 1966 Shelley Memorial Award and the 1992 Frost Medial. His work has been recognized also with the Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Wallace Stevens Fellowship from Yale University, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is npresident emeritus of the Poetry Society of America and a member of the executive board of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, Huntington, Lon Island, his home is in East Hampton, Long Island. His most recent books are Shadowing the Ground (1991) and Against the Evidence: Selected Poems 1934-1994 (1994).