Lou Lipsitz

Author's Bio

I am interested in men's issues and life transitions and work as a psychotherapist with adults of both genders and variations. I'm writing a book of poems about my work as a therapist.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

If This World Falls Apart (Lynx House Press, 2011), Seeking the Hook (Signal Books, 1998), Reflections on Samson (Kayak Books, 1977)

Anthologies:

Perfect in Their Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003)

Journals:

Great River Review, Mudfish, New Letters, New Republic, Northwest Review, Paterson Literary Review, Southern Review, Texas Review, The Sun, Witness

Prizes:

My recent book, If This World Falls Apart, won the Blue Lynx Prize in 2011.

Lou Lipsitz Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Let Your Body interpret Your dreams by Eugene Gendlin, Flying by Night by Ted Kooser, Coming out of the Woods by Wallace Kaufman, Leaving Tuscaloosa by Walter Bennett, Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

Favorite Books:

The Big Red Book of Rumi Selections, Wm Carlos Williams Leaves of Grass, Walt The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway

Favorite Authors:

John Steinbeck, Philip Roth, Dostoyevsky, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda Galway Kinnell

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Listing last updated: December 5, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Born in:

Brooklyn, NY

Raised in:

Brooklyn, NY