Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes

Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes (born 29 October 1951) is an American poet and writer.[1] Mayes' books of poetry include Magnetism, First Language, To Remain, Works and Days, Speed of Life, and Bodysong.

His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Best American Poetry.

His books have received the Juniper Prize, the Gesù Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, and the Associated Writing Programs Prize. He's also received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

In Tuscany (photographs by Bob Krist), Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style from the Heart of Italy (photographs by Steven Rothfeld), and The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from My Italian Kitchen (photographs by Steven Rothfeld) were written with his wife, the writer Frances Mayes.

Mayes and his wife live in North Carolina and Cortona, Italy.

References
  1. "With so many choices, only question is cassette or CD". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 12, 2004. p. H13. Retrieved 10 August 2011.


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