Raymond Oliver, an emeritus professor of English from Berkeley, specialized in Old and Middle English, verse translation, and the history of the short poem. He earned a PhD at Stanford, and studied poetry there on a Stegner Fellowship with Yvor Winters. His poems and verse-translations have been widely published; in prose, he has written critical studies and one tale of medieval fantasy (The Year of Wonders). He is married to Mary Anne McPherson, with children and grandchildren.
Raymond Oliver, an emeritus professor of English from Berkeley, specialized in Old and Middle English, verse translation, and the history of the short poem. He earned a PhD at Stanford, and studied poetry there on a Stegner Fellowship with Yvor Winters. His poems and verse-translations have been widely published; in prose, he has written critical studies and one tale of medieval fantasy (The Year of Wonders). He is married to Mary Anne McPherson, with children and grandchildren.
Raymond Oliver, an emeritus professor of English from Berkeley, specialized in Old and Middle English, verse translation, and the history of the short poem. He earned a PhD at Stanford, and studied poetry there on a Stegner Fellowship with Yvor Winters. His poems and verse-translations have been widely published; in prose, he has written critical studies and one tale of medieval fantasy (The Year of Wonders). He is married to Mary Anne McPherson, with children and grandchildren.
"He respects his own senses, he respects history, but most of all
he respects the things of his present experience. . . . It is for
this kind of firm delicacy that I find Ray Oliver's poetry like
nobody else's I have read."
--Thom Gunn, late poet
"Greeting the End of Time is an episodic account of a spiritual
quest for faith and meaning. There are incidents from the author's
Protestant childhood and youth; and he records his growing need as
he matures to orient himself within Christianity, and to grasp the
two unfathomables, God, and death. This is a deeply serious book
and the poems invite reading and rereading."
--Barry Goldensohn, Professor Emeritus, Skidmore College, and
author of nine books of poems
"Greeting the End of Time offers a poetry of radiant avowal, a
lifetime in the making. Oliver's Christian faith resonates
throughout. We see the supple joy it gives articulated in a
wide-ranging collection that combines passionate belief with poetic
discovery."
--Robin Magowan, poet, author of poetry collections The Aviary and
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