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Ohioana Poetry Book Award: 2007

Bruce Weigl for Declension in the Village of Chung Luong
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Another poetry book award was presented to Martha Collins

Bruce Weigl is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems (1999) and The Unraveling Strangeness (2002). He has also served as translator for Poems from Captured Documents (1994), Angel Riding a Beast (1999), and Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948–1993.

In 2000, he published The Circle of Hanh, a memoir that chronicles his return to Vietnam to adopt a daughter.

Weigl is currently Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities at Lorain County Community College. Among his awards are a Patterson Poetry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the Northern Ohio Live Award for Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf.

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