Jim Barnes (writer)
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Jim Weaver McKown Barnes (born December 22, 1933) is an American writer who was born near
Barnes is the founding editor of the Chariton Review Press, editor of
Awards
Barnes received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1978 and the Columbia University Translation Award for his translation of Dagmar Nick's Zeugnis und Zeichen (Summons and Signs) in 1980. In 1989, he was awarded the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award; and, in 1990, he was awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation a Bellagio Residency Fellowship for the purpose of beginning his translations of Dagmar Nick's poetry. He held a second Bellagio Residency Fellowship in 2003. In 1992 he was a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence for the University of Maryland Far East Division. In 1993 Barnes received the Oklahoma Book Award for The Sawdust War, and he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Switzerland in 1993–94. In 1998, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions was named a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction and also in the poetry category for Paris. In 2007 his poem on the enigma of Weldon Kees' disappearance in The Iowa Review received the Tim McGinnis Prize.
Barnes has been the Featured Poet at the
Books
Poetry
- Sundown Explains Nothing: New and Selected Poems, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2019.
- Visiting Picasso, University of Illinois Press, 2007.[2]
- On a Wing of the Sun: Three Volumes of Poetry, University of Illinois Press, 2001.[3]
- Paris: Poems, (Illinois Poetry Series), University of Illinois Press,1997.[4]
- The Sawdust War: Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1992.
- The La Plata Cantata: Poems, Purdue University Press, 1989.
- A Season of Loss, Purdue University Press, 1985.
- American Book of the Dead, University of Illinois Press, 1982.
- The Fish on Poteau Mountain, Cedar Creek Press, 1980.
- This Crazy Land, Inland Boat Series/Porch Press, 1980.
- Five Missouri Poets, (editor), Chariton Review Press, 1979).
Translations and criticism
- Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann: Structural Tradition, Thomas Jefferson University Press.
- Summons and Signs: poems, Dagmar Nick (Tr. Jim Barnes) Chariton Review Press.
- Numbered Days: Poems, Dagmar Nick (Tr. Jim Barnes) New Odyssey Press.
- "The Myth of Sisyphus" in Under the Volcano, Prairie Schooner, 42, 341–348. 1968.
Prose
- On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions, American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 23, University of Oklahoma Press.
- "Scars" [Barnes' twentieth short story],New Letters, 2014.
- "Lope Falls", Concho River Review, 2021.
Critical studies
- A. Robert Lee (ed), The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes, Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2009.
See also
- Poets Laureate of Oklahoma
References
- ^ "An Interview with Poet Jim Barnes". Oklahoma Humanities. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ Barnes, Jim. "UI Press - Jim Barnes - Visiting Picasso". Press.uillinois.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-08-30. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
- ^ "Jim Barnes / On a Wing of the Sun". Archived from the original on 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
- ^ "Jim Barnes / Paris". Archived from the original on 2007-03-24. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
External links
- At the Festival de Poésie on the Artful Dodge
- Meeting Susan S. at Musée de l'Orangerie on the Artful Dodge
- The Good Dark Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine at University of Illinois Press.
- Halcyon Days on In the Hey Days of His Eyes
- Ithaka 2001 on The HyperTexts
- Heading East Out of Rock Springs on The HyperTexts
- Feria de Paques, Arles 1996 on The HyperTexts
- Deputy Finds Dean's Tombstone on Highway on The HyperTexts
- The First Feria of the Third Millennium, Arles Easter Monday on The HyperTexts
- Poets as Translators - Jim Barnes
- A brief resumé is available from the Missouri Author's Directory.