Discipline: Literature – poetry

Louis Asekoff

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Tivoli, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986, 1987
Louis S. Asekoff an American poet and professor emeritus. Asekoff often incorporates surrealist imagery and monologue into his poetry, which is concerned with both the imagistic and aural dimensions of language. Asekoff's unconventional use of monologue as a poetic instrument is suggestive of “the inability of words to properly convey meaning” and a vehicle for implicating the readers who become “members of his poetic universe.” In 2012, Poet laureate Philip Levine, who selected Asekoff for the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize, described Asekoff as “a true surreal visionary.” Asekoff taught poetry and coordinated the MFA Poetry Program at Brooklyn College for 42 years, where he also served as a faculty associate for The Wolfe Institute for Humanities.

Studios

Banks

Louis Asekoff worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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