LIFSHIN, Lyn

LIFSHIN, Lyn. American, b. 1948. Genres: Poetry. Career: State University of New York, Albany, English instructor, 1968; writing consultant, New York State Mental Health Dept., 1969, and Empire State College, NY, 1973; Mansfield State College, poet-in-residence, PA, 1974; Albany Public Library Poetry Workshop, NY, director. Publications: Why Is the House Dissolving?, 1968; Black Apples, 1970; Leaves and Night Things, 1971; Femina Two, 1972; Moving by Touch, 1972; Merchurochrome Sun Poems, 1972; Tentacles, Leaves, 1972; Love Poems, 1972; Museum, 1974; Forty Days, Apple Nights, 1974; The Croton, 1974; Shaker Poems, 1974; The Old House, 1974; Wild Flowers Smoke, 1974; Green Bandages, 1974; All the Women Poets, 1974; Audley End Poems, 1974; Upstate Madonna, 1975; Some Madonna Poems, 1976; Leaning South, 1976; Plymouth Women, 1976; North, 1976; Glass, 1978; Paper Apples, 1978; Offered by Owner, 1979; Crazy Arms, 1979; 35 Sundays, 1980; Colors of Cooper Black, 1981; Hotel Lifshin, 1982; Mad Girl Poems, 1982; Blue Dust New Mexico, 1982; Reading Lips, 1982; Madonna Who Shifts for Herself, 1982; Want Ads, 1982; In the Dark with Just One Star, 1982; Kiss the Skin Off, 1985; Naked Charm, 1984; Blue Horses Nuzzle Thursday, 1985; Raw Opals, 1987; Many More Madonnas, 1988; Red Hair and the Jesuit, 1988; Unsealed Lips, 1989; Rubbed Silk, 1989; Not Made of Glass (film), 1989; The Doctor (poems), 1990; More Naked Charm, 1990; The Innocents, 1991; Reading Lips, 1992; Marilyn Monroe, 1994; Parade, 1994; Shooting Kodachromes, 1994; Apple-blossoms, 1994; Feathers in the Wind, 1994; The 375 Poem about Me Comes in the Mail, 1994; Pointe Shoes, 1995; The Mad Girl Drives in a Daze, 1995; Color and Light, 1996; Mad Girls, Dead Men, 1996; More Mad Girls, 1996; My Mother's Fire, 1996; Autobiography, 1996; Jesus Alive and in the Flesh, 1997; Cold Comfort, 1997; Caught in the Act, 1997; Flesh Dress, 1997; Before It's Light, 1999; Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (film). EDITOR: Tangled Vines, 1978, rev. ed., 1992; Ariadne's Thread, 1982.