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Joseph Auslander

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Joseph Auslander (11 October, 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania22 June, 1965, Coral Gables, Florida) was a United States poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was first to hold the post of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, occupying it between 1937 and 1941.

He was married to Audrey Wurdemann, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry (Source: "Comparing Poems on Like Topics," by Paul Mowbray Wheeler The English Journal 40 (3): 154-161; 1951)

Works

  • More Than Bread: A Book of Poems
  • Cyclops' Eye
  • My Uncle Jan,: A Novel
  • NoTtraveller Returns: A Book of Poems
  • My Uncle Jan (by Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann)
  • The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries
  • The Islanders
  • Cyclop's Eye
  • Letters to Women
  • Riders at the Gate: A Volume of Verse
  • The Vigil of Venus
  • Green World: A Book of Poems