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A. Wilber Stevens
Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1992
A. Wilber Stevens (1921-1996) is considered one of Nevada's finest and most influential poets. His poetry goes to places even the most unfamiliar reader understands: the late-night desperation seen in city faces and long laments on the slowly disappearing western landscape. He was respected as a poet, editor, scholar and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He served as Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in 1972. He was the founding editor of Interim, a poetry and fiction journal, and a long-time drama critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Bibliography for A. Wilber Stevens
Books:
From the Still Empty Grave: Collected Poems. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1995. [Available: Knowledge Center: PS 3569 .T4395 F76 1995]
The World Is Going to End Up in Burma. Carson City, NV: Hardwood Books, 1988.
Poetry in Anthologies:
Bynner, Witter; and A. Wilber Stevens, comps. Poems Southwest. Prescott, AZ: Prescott College Press, 1968. [Available: Knowledge Center: PS 566 S7]
Fox, William L., ed. Seven Nevada Poets. Reno: Rainshadow Editions, 1991. [Available: Knowledge Center: PS 571 .N3 S38 1991]
Griffin, Shaun T., ed. Desert Wood: An Anthology of Nevada Poets. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991. [Available: Knowledge Center: PS 571 .N3 D47 1991]
Larson, Clinton F.; and William Stafford, eds. Modern Poetry of Western America. Brigham Young
Univ. Press, 1975. [Available: Knowledge Center: PS 561 M6]
Short Story:
"Pocatello." in The Literary Review. (1964) Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 207-211.
Editor:
Blackwell, Fritz; and A. Wilber Stevens, eds. English Poetry by Indians. Calcutta, India: Writers Workshop, 1988.
Interim. Seattle: Gateway Print Co., (Summer 1944-1954) Vols. 1-4. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: AP 2 I646]
Scholarly Articles:
"Concept and Form in Contemporary Indian Fiction." in Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. (1975).
"The Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko." in Halcyon: A Journal of the Humanities. (1987) Vol. 9; pp. 205-209. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections]
"Eastern Insights in Contemporary Dramatic Criticism." in Tamkang Review. (1975-76) Vol. 6, no. 2-7, pp. 317-328.
"George Orwell and Southeast Asia." in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. (1962) Vol. 11, pp. 133-141. [Available: Knowledge Center: PN 851 Y4 1962]
"Heroic Paradox." in Xavier Review. (1965) Vol. 4, pp. 29-33.
"Literature and Religion." in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. (1968) Vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 168-176. (book review)
"Utah Shakespearean Festival, 1975." in Shakespeare Quarterly. (1976) Vol. 27, no. 1,
pp. 80-82.
Manuscript Resources:
"Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records, 1873-1996." at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Online Index
"Judson Crews Papers." at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at
Austin.
Index of Correspondents
Biographical Sources & Critical Response:
"Obituary." University of Nevada, Las Vegas News Bureau. (Oct. 1, 1996).
"Poems Southwest" (review) in Southwest Review (1968), Vol. 53, p. 332. [Available: Knowledge Center: AS 30 .S665 1968]
Please direct questions about this bibliography to Betty Glass.
Please direct questions to Millie Mitchell
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