Thomas McGrath

**Thomas Matthaeus** (Anglice *Matthew*) **McGrath** (prope Sheldon Dacotae Septentrionalis, 20 Novembris 1916; Minneapoli Minnesotae, 20 Septembris 1990) fuit poeta Americanus.

Gradum Artium Baccalaureati in Universitate Dacotae Septentrionalis apud Grand Forks obtinuit. In Insulis Aleutiis in Copiis Aereis Exercitus Civitatum Foederatarum secundo bello mundano meruit. Stipendio Rhodensi Universitatem Oxoniensem frequentavit; studiis postgraduatis etiam in Universitate Civica Ludovicianensi apud Rubribaculum institit. In Collegio Colbiensi in Cenomannica et Collegio Civico Angelopolitis docuit, ex quo amotus est propter eius testimonium, ut testis inimicus, pro House Committee on Un-American Activities anno 1953. Deinde in Universitate Civica Dacotae Septentrionalis et Universitate Civica Minnesotae apud Moorhead docuit. Uxorem ter duxit et unum filium genuit.

McGrath plerumque de sua vita et anxietibus socialibus scribere solebat. Libro *Letter to an Imaginary Friend* praecipue innotuit, poemate partim inter 1957 et 1985 edito et textus cunctus anno 1997 a Copper Canyon Press.

## Opera
**First Manifesto,* A. Swallow (Baton Rouge), 1940.
*"The Dialectics of Love", in  'Three Young Poets: Thomas McGrath, William Peterson, James Franklin Lewis,* ed. Alan Swallow. Press of James A. Decker (Prairie City Illinoesiae), 1942.
**To Walk a Crooked Mile,* Swallow Press (Novi Eboraci), 1947.
**Longshot O'Leary's Garland of Practical Poesie,* International Publishers (Novi Eboraci), 1949.
**Witness to the Times!* private impressum, 1954.
**Figures from a Double World,* Alan Swallow (Denverii), 1955.
**The gates of ivory, the gates of horn,* Mainstream Publishers, 1957. Ed. 2a., Another Chicago Press, 1987 ISBN 9780961464424.
**Clouds,* Melmont Publishers, 1959.
**The Beautiful Things,* Vanguard Press, 1960.
**Letter to an Imaginary Friend,* Pars I, Alan Swallow, 1962.
**Cum parte II, Swallow Press (Sicagi), 1970.
**Partes III et IV, Copper Canyon Press, 1985.
**Omnes partes cum novis rebus selectis, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend Vasingtoniae), 1997. ISBN 9781556590771.
**New and Selected Poems,* Alan Swallow, 1964.
**The Movie at the End of the World: Collected Poems,* Swallow Press, 1972.
**Poems for Little People,* [Gloucester], circa 1973.
**Voyages to the Inland Sea #3,* Center for Contemporary Poetry, 1973.
**Voices from beyond the Wall,* Territorial Press (Moorhead Minnesotae), 1974.
**A Sound of One Hand: Poems,* Minnesota Writers Publishing House (St. Peter Minnesotae), 1975.
**Open Songs: Sixty Short Poems,* Uzzano (Mount Carroll Illinoesiae), 1977. ISBN 9780930600006.
**Letters to Tomasito,* graphica a Randall W. Scholes facta, Holy Cow! Press (in Urbe Sancti Pauli de Minnesota), 1977. ISBN 9780930100018.
**Trinc: Praises II; A Poem,* Copper Canyon Press, 1979.
**Waiting for the Angel,* Uzzano (Menomonie Visconsiniae), 1979. ISBN 9780930600075.
**Passages toward the Dark,* Copper Canyon Press, 1982. ISBN 9780914742630.
**Echoes inside the Labyrinth,'' Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983. ISBN 9780938410133.
*''Longshot O'Leary Counsels Direct Action: Poems,* West End Press, 1983. ISBN 9780931122286.
**Selected Poems, 1938-1988,* Copper Canyon Press, 1988. ISBN 9781556590122.
**This coffin has no handles: a novel,'' Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. ISBN 9780938410638.
**Death Song,* ed. Sam Hamill, Copper Canyon Press, 1991. ISBN 9781556590351.

## Notae

## Bibliographia
*Gibbons, Reginald, et Terrence Des Pres. 1987. *Thomas McGrath: life and the poem.* Northwestern University. Iterum impressum 1992, University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252018527.
*Stern, Frederick E., ed. 1988. *The Revolutionary Poet in the United States: The Poetry of Thomas McGrath.* Columbiae Missuriae: University of Missouri. ISBN 0826206824.

## Nexus externi
*Blei, Norbert. 2008. thomas mcgrath | death song poems. *Poetry Dispatch,* 24 Iunii.
*Thomas McGrath. *Modern American Poetry,* Universitas Illinoesiae
**The Movie at the End of the World.* Pellicula documentaria de poeta.

Categoria:Nati 1916
Categoria:Mortui 1990
Categoria:Alumni Universitatis Civicae Ludovicianensis
Categoria:Alumni Universitatis Dacotae Septentrionalis
Categoria:Auctores Anglici
Categoria:Incolae Dacotae Septentrionalis
Categoria:Milites
Categoria:Participes secundi belli mundani
Categoria:Poetae Civitatum Foederatarum
Categoria:Professores Collegii Colbiani
Categoria:Professores Universitatis Civicae Californiensis apud Angelopolim
Categoria:Professores Universitatis Civicae Dacotae Septentrionalis
Categoria:Professores Universitatis Civicae Minnesotensis apud Moorhead

Categoria:Alumni Universitatis Oxoniensis

Categoria:Socii Guggenheimiani
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