Edgar Bowers

Born: 1924 in Rome, Georgia

• Edgar Bowers spent most of his childhood in various parts of the state.

• He went to the University of South Carolina to earn his bachelor's degree and earned his Ph.D at Stanford University

  • His studies were interrupted by WWII service

• When he came back home, he taught at Duke University

• His first book of poems was called, "The Form of Loss" (1956)

  • "The Astronomers" (1965)

  • "Living Together: New and Selected Poems" (1973)

  • "For Louis Pasteur" (1989)

  • "Collected Poems" (1997)

• His poems include the horrific sights from WWII

  • Some of his poems explore the topic of the past, of friends, of values, and of humanity

• He earned the Bollingen Prize for Poetry

Died: 2000 in California