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Milton Kessler (1930 Brooklyn - 2000) was a poet and an English professor at Binghamton University. He was one of the founders of the university's Creative Writing Program. ==Life== Kessler grew up in New York City in a Jewish family. He was a volunteer spear carrier and prop boy at the New York Metropolitan Opera as a teenager, and he had classical training as a singer. He worked selling cloth at the Sample Shop as a young adult, and he married his wife, Sonia, while working a range of modest jobs.〔http://harpur.binghamton.edu/hotline/2000/may22/index.htm〕 His first book, ''Sailing Too Far'', was published by Harper & Row and became widely noted. He signed an anti-war letter to ''The New York Review of Books''. He attended graduate school at Harvard University, but after finding enough success as a poet he left doctoral studies and landed at Binghamton University, where his students included Camille Paglia (1964-1968). Paglia later wrote that the biggest impact on her thinking were the classes taught by poet Milton Kessler: The way I was trained to read literature by Milton Kessler (at Harpur College, part of Binghamton University), who was a student of Theodore Roethke, he believed in the responsiveness of the body, and of the activation of the senses to literature. And oh did I believe in that. Probably from my Italian background -- that’s the way we respond to things, with our body. From Michelangelo, Bernini, there’s this whole florid physicality leading right down to the Grand Opera, the great arias.〔("An Interview with Camille Paglia," ''Bookslut'', April 2005 )〕 His work appeared in ''Oregon Literary Review'',〔http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v2n2/OregonLiteraryReview.htm〕 ''The Nation'',〔http://www.since1865.com/archive/search.mhtml?query1=DE%20%22KESSLER%2C%20Milton%22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milton Kessler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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