On Autumn Lake

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*Author is a beloved, cult figure of American poetry, who's first book, The Revisionist, earned the author a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Whiting Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship, the Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year twice (2017 and 2019) among other prizes.*When Nightboat published Crase's collected poems Publishers Weekly called it "a lasting contribution" to American poetry. *Subjects of essays in this collection include poets of the New York School, painting, "A Brief History of Memes, " "A Hidden History of the Avante-Garde, " writers James Schuyler, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ashbery, Marjorie Welish, Anne Lauterbach, Donald Britton, and artists Dwight Ripley, Richard Poirier, Robert Dash*Of interest to people interested in non-academic essays that take a personal approach to the subject of poetry*Author grew up reading Whitman and is interested in landscape and egalitarian democracy*John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Marjorie Welish were close personal friends of the author and are discussed in these essays.*Author is a beloved essayist about poetry, editor of a book of Emerson's writing for the Library of AMerica, and a memoir/biography, Both *Author is a revered member of the New York School of Poets, was close friends with John Ashbery, John Schuyler, among many others. Schuyler's poem, "Dining Out with Doug and Frank, " is about Crase and his husband, Frank Polach.*Author worked as a free-lance writer of speeches, industrial filmscripts, and multimedia presentations for clients including Eastman Kodak, General Electric, United Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Chesebrough-Pond's, and others.*The Revisionist & The Astropastorals was named a 2019 Book of the Year in Times Literary Supplement *Author holds a AB from Princeton *His first book, The Revisionist, was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1981 by The New York Times and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a National Book Award in poetry. His collected poems, The Revisionist and The Astropastorals, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and named a Book of the Year for 2019 in both the Times Literary Supplementand Hyperallergic. His dual biography of influential aesthetes Rupert Barneby and Dwight Ripley, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur "genius" award. He lives with his husband, Frank Polach, in New York and Carley Brook, Pennsylvania.