Paul Blackburn

ABOUT PAUL BLACKBURN

American poet whose works include The Dissolving Fabric and The Cities. Also a translator, he published English versions of the works of Julio Cortazar, Octavio Paz , and Federico García Lorca .

He started writing poetry during his teenage years. He later attended New York University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He worked briefly as the poetry editor of The Nation.

His three marriages -- to Winifred Grey McCarthy, Sara Golden, and Joan Diane Miller -- produced one child. Blackburn died of esophageal cancer at the young age of forty-four.

During his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Blackburn began corresponding with poet Ezra Pound .