Poetry. "Bronk's surgical turn of mind and resultant brevity imbue his poems with a speed and agility that cut to the core of knotty matters. His rare gift is the ability to float difficult truths on fleeting snatches of spoken breath."—the Village Voice Literary Supplement
Author City: HUDSON FALLS, NY USA
Winner of the American Book Award in 1982 for LIFE SUPPORTS, his collected early poetry, William Bronk (1918-1999) is widely celebrated as one of the most accomplished poets of his generation. The recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry in 1991, Bronk lived most of his life in Hudson Falls, New York, in a substantial Victorian home that became a mecca for American poets and artists.