Deborah Digges (February 6, 1950 – April 10, 2009) was an American poet and teacher. She was born Deborah Leah Sugarbaker in Jefferson City, Missouri, on February 6, 1950. Her father was a physician and her mother was a nurse; she was the sixth child in a family of ten children. [1]

Digges’s collections of poetry include the posthumous The Wind Blows through the Doors of my Heart (2010); Trapeze (2004), which includes elegies for her third husband, Franklin Loew; Rough Music (1995), winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award; Late in the Millenium (1989); and Vesper Sparrows (1986), which won the Delmore Schwartz ...

Apr 17, 2009 · Deborah Digges, a renowned poet and memoirist whose work often sprang from private adversity, died on April 10 near Amherst, Mass., apparently in a suicide. She was 59 and lived in...

Digges is the author of four books of poetry, including The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) and Rough Music (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Her first book, Vesper Sparrows (Carnegie-Melon University Press, 1986), won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University.

Apr 27, 2009 · Deborah Digges, a distinguished poet and memoirist who wrote lyrically and hauntingly about the challenges of everyday life, fell to her death April 10. She was 59.

AMHERST - Award winning poet and professor Deborah Digges died Friday night of an apparent suicide at the McGuirk Alumni Stadium at the University of Massachusetts. Digges, who was teaching at...

Aug 19, 2009 · Here is a link to Deborah Digges’ obituary in The New York Times. And a list on Amazon of books she's written. On his website, Edward Byrne, an English pr ofessor at Valparaiso University and editor of Valparaiso Poetry …

Deborah Digges was an American poet and teacher. She was the author of four well-received poetry collections and two equally well-received memoirs. Deborah Digges was born Deborah Leah Sugarbaker in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1950.

Deborah Digges (February 6, 1950 – April 10, 2009) was an American poet and teacher. She was born Deborah Leah Sugarbaker in Jefferson City, Missouri, on February 6, 1950. Her father was a physican and her mother was a nurse; she was the sixth child in a family of ten children.

Professor of English Deborah Digges died Friday night in an apparent suicide at the University of Massachusetts, Amhert. Digges, a celebrated poet and award-winning author, was 59. Digges' body was found on the ground at McGuirk Alumni Stadium at UMass-Amherst.

Apr 27, 2009 · Deborah Digges, a distinguished poet and memoirist who wrote lyrically and hauntingly about the challenges of everyday life, fell to her death April 10. She was 59.

Digges loved the phenomenological work of philosopher Gaston Bachelard, and she paraphrased much of The Poetics of Space in class. She was fascinated by his ideas about houses, nests, cellars, and attics.

Apr 16, 2009 · Digges published four books of poetry and two memoirs and also contributed eighteen poems to The New Yorker. She was the kind of writer whose work went deep into the lives of her...

Nov 16, 2013 · In one of her most trenchant poems, “Life’s Calling,” Deborah Digges begins with a strikingly exaggerated metaphor describing what she was meant to do with her life, as she saw it: “My life’s calling: setting fires.”

The poet Deborah Digges was born and raised in Missouri. Her first collection, Vesper Sparrows , won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University. Late in the Millennium was published in 1989, and Rough Music, which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize, was published in 1995.

DIGGES, DeborahDIGGES, Deborah. American, b. 1950. Genres: Poetry. Career: Writer and poet. Publications: POETRY: Vesper Sparrows, 1986; Late in the Millennium, 1989; Rough Music, 1995; (ed. and trans. with M. Cruz-Bernal) Ballad of the Blood: The Poems of …

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Deborah Digges, born on February 6, 1950, published four books of poetry: Trapeze (Knopf, 2005); Rough Music (Random House, 1997), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize; Late in the Millennium (Knopf, 1989), and Vesper Sparrows (Atheneum Publishers, 1986), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University.