Edgar Bowers (1924 - 2000)

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Edgar Bowers was born in 1924 in Rome, Georgia, where his father ran a plant nursery. During World War II he served in Counter Intelligence, ending his military service in Berchtesgaden, Hitler's eyrie in the Bavarian Alps. The experiences of these years had a deep and permanent effect on his poetry. On his discharge in April 1946 he returned to the University of North Carolina, and then finished his graduate studies with a Ph.D. in English at Stanford University. In 1956 Bowers published hi.. Continue..

Some of Edgar Bowers Poems

Amor Vincit Omnia

Dedication for a House

Mary

Elegy: Walking the Line

Variations on an Elizabethan Theme

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