{"product_id":"busing-to-byzantium-selected-poems-and-prose","title":"Busing to Byzantium: Selected Poems and Prose","description":"Bruce Guernsey, a native New Englander, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he taught for twenty-five years. He was awarded seven faculty excellence-in-teaching awards, and in 1992-93 was selected as the State of Illinois Board of Governors’ “Professor of the Year,” the highest award in that state system. He has also taught at William and Mary, Johns Hopkins, and Virginia Wesleyan College where he was Poet in Residence for four years. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and many of the quarterlies. His essays have found a home over the years in such journals as The Virginia Quarterly, War, Literature and the Arts, Dappled Things, and Chronicles. He is a former Editor of The Spoon River Poetry Review. Several of his poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry edited by former Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. The recipient of Fellowships from the NEA, The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the Illinois Arts Council, Guernsey has been honored with two Fulbright Senior Lectureships in American Poetry to Portugal and Greece. He has also twice sailed around the world as a faculty member with Semester at Sea.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1736339400\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1736339400.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Guernsey, Bruce\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338174595133,"sku":"BVV.1736339400.VG","price":16.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1736339400-0.jpg?v=1783909190","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/busing-to-byzantium-selected-poems-and-prose","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}