Turner Cassity

He was the son of Dorothy and Allen Cassity, and grew up in Jackson and Forest, Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College and Stanford University with a master's degree.^[2]

Cassity was drafted into the United States Army and stationed in Puerto Rico from 1952 to 1954.^[3] He attended Columbia University on the GI Bill. He worked at the Robert W. Woodruff LibraryatEmory University, from 1962 to 1991,^[4] and also taught poetry there.

He is buried in Forest, Mississippi.^[3] His papers are at Emory University.^[5]

• Georgia Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association.
• Levinson Prize for Poetry, for Devils and Islands
• Michael Braude Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant

• Watchboy, What of the Night?. Wesleyan University Press. 1966.
• Steeplejacks in Babel. D. R. Godine. 1973. ISBN 978-0-87923-070-8.
• Yellow for Peril, Black for Beautiful. G. Braziller. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8076-0775-6.
• The Defense of the Sugar Islands: a recruiting poster. Symposium Press. 1979.
• Phaëthon unter den Linden. Iris Press. 1979.
• Keys to Mayerling. Robert L. Barth. 1983. ISBN 978-0-941150-14-9.
• The Airship Boys in Africa. Hendricks. 1984. ISBN 978-0-943764-01-6.
• Hurricane Lamp. University of Chicago Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-226-09615-5.
• Lessons. Para Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-941150-57-6.
• To the Lost City, or, the Sins of Nineveh. R.L. Barth. 1989. ISBN 978-0-941150-74-3.
• Between the Chains. University of Chicago Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-226-09617-9. Turner Cassity.
• The Destructive Element: New and Selected Poems. Ohio University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8214-1221-3.
• No Second Eden. Ohio University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8040-1050-4.
• "Crystal but not crystal ball". The New Criterion. November 2006.
• Devils & islands: poems. Ohio University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8040-1102-0.
• "Four poems (published posthumously)". Able Muse, Tribute Issue. December 2009.
• "Turner Cassity Reads at the Huntington Library, April 12, 2003 (video)". Able Muse, Tribute Issue. December 2009.

• Silver Out of Shanghai (1973)
• The Book of Alna (1985)

• John Hollander; David Lehman, eds. (1998). The Best American poetry, 1998. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7.
• Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9. Turner Cassity.
• Joseph Parisi; Stephen Young, eds. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7.

• Herbert A. Leibowitz, ed. (1994). "Double Dutch". Parnassus: twenty years of poetry in review. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06577-6.
• "Hapax: A Book Review". Cortland Review. May 2007.

• "Deep Depression in Key West". Ploughshares. Fall 1983. Archived from the original on August 28, 2007.
• "U-24 Anchors off New Orleans 1938". Ploughshares. Fall 1983. Archived from the original on September 9, 2007.

• "Turner Cassity Tribute (Guest Features Editor - Suzanne J. Doyle)", Able Muse, December, 2009
• "Remembering Turner Cassity (by David Yezzi)", Best American Poetry, August 13, 2009