Corn, Alfred

Corn, Alfred

▪ American poet
in full  Alfred Dewitt Corn III  
born Aug. 14, 1943, Bainbridge, Ga., U.S.

      American poet known for meditative lyrics that show a mastery of traditional forms.

      Corn was raised in Valdosta, Georgia, and attended Emory University (B.A., 1965) and Columbia University (M.A., 1970). In the 1970s he traveled throughout Europe and then returned to the United States to teach at various universities. He earned critical acclaim for his first volume of verse, All Roads at Once (1976). The poems in A Call in the Midst of the Crowd (1978) are all about New York City, notably the lengthy title poem.

      Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984), one of Corn's best-known works, is a long semiautobiographical poem modeled after the Paradiso in Dante's La divina commedia. Corn's other verse collections include The Various Light (1980), An Xmas Murder (1987), and The West Door (1988). Autobiographies (1992) is best known for the long poem 1992, a memoir, while Stake (1999) contains poems written between 1972 and 1992. The poems in Contradictions (2002) range widely in subject and metrical form.

      In Corn's first novel, Part of His Story (1997), an American playwright moves to London after his lover's death from AIDS. The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody was published in 1997.

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