Peter Wild
Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the
University of Arizona in
Tucson, Arizona. Born in
Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in
Easthampton, Massachusetts. Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany. Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the
University of California, Irvine. He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the
American West. His 1973 volume of poetry, ''Cochise'', a eulogy to the
Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader
Cochise, was nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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