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Messerli’s work centers on a dialogue between or interchange with the community at large and the many aspects of self. He uses several pseudonyms and personas to explore, through various forms of writing, the multitude of selves within any one being. And he has used similar strategies in his larger writing project with others. In
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Messerli’s poetry has transformed from a poetry centered in comedy and wit to a highly lyrical and seemingly romantically-inspired writing. But its subjects—the difficulty of communicating and the isolation of each human being—have remained the same. It has also become increasingly
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In 1985 Messerli left his tenure-track professorship to edit Sun & Moon Press full-time. The same year Fox was named
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in Philadelphia. Commuting between Washington and Philadelphia, he continued to write, working on a new book of poetry,
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meeting on campus. Together they moved to Washington, D.C. in 1970. For a while, Messerli worked as a librarian at
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Grants to Artist award (2002). He has received numerous other awards, including the
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for one year, attending school there. Upon his return to the USA, he attended the
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Messerli concentrated on fiction until he met critic and teacher
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