Frederick Glaysher, author (born 1954, Detroit, Michigan) studied with the poet Robert Hayden prior to his death in 1980, and is the editor of two collections of Haydens's work. Glaysher has also taught at several colleges and universities.
Biography Glaysher lived in Japan where he taught at Gunma University in Maebashi; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi River; ultimately returning to his suburban hometown of Rochester, near Detroit, Michigan.
A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.
An outspoken advocate of the United Nations, Glaysher was an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000).
Works Books *(ed.) Robert Hayden's Collected Prose (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1984) ISBN 0472063510 *(ed.) Robert Hayden's Collected Poems (Liveright, 1985). ISBN 0871406497
Website *One official website of Frederick Glaysher *"The Mission of Earthrise Press", by Frederick Glaysher
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