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Anna Rabinowitz is an American

editor. She has published five volumes of poetry: Words on the Street (Tupelo Press) winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize 2017; Present Tense (Omindawn) selected by The Huffington Post as one of the best poetry books of 2010;[1] The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders (Tupelo Press); Darkling: A Poem (Tupelo Press); and At the Site of Inside Out (University of Massachusetts Press
) winner of the Juniper Prize 1997.

Rabinowitz has collaborated with composers and theatrical artists to create libretti for operatic music theatre performances that bring her poetry to the stage. Words on the Street, collaboratively conceived and developed by poet Rabinowitz, composer Matt Marks, director Kristin Marting, and video artist Lianne Arnold, premiered in New York City in 2018. Due to Marks' untimely death halfway through the production, a group of fellow composers — Lainie Fefferman, John Glover, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram, Caroline Shaw, and Randall Woolf — helped complete the score. Rabinowitz has written libretti for The Wanton Sublime, music by

American Opera Projects. Darkling, the opera, was released internationally as a CD by Albany Records
in 2011.

Rabinowitz is currently editor emerita of American Letters & Commentary, where she was editor and publisher from 1990 to 2007. She has served on the Board of Governors for the

Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Sulfur
, LIT, VOLT, and Verse.

Born in

Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University, School of the Arts.[2]

Published works

Poetry

Translation

  • Darkling (Luxbooks, Weisbaden, Germany, 2012) Bi-lingual German translation

Anthologies

  • The Best American Poetry 1989 (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989)
  • Life on the Line (Negative Capability Press, 1990)
  • KGB Bar Book of Poems (William Morrow, 2000)
  • International Millennium Anthology 2000
  • Poetry After 9/11 (Melville House, 2002)
  • The Poets’ Grimm (Story Line Press, 2003)
  • Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website (Sourcebooks, 2003)
  • Imaginary Poets (Tupelo Press, 2005)
  • The Paradelle (Red Hen Press, spring 2006)
  • Blood to Remember (Time Being Books, 2007)
  • Women Poets on Mentorship (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
  • After Shocks, The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events (Sante Lucia Books, 2008)

Critical Essays

  • "We Take With Us What We Leave Behind" (Many Mountains Moving, A Tribute to W.S. Merwin, Volume IV, Number 2, 2001)
  • "Barbara Guest: Notes Toward Painterly Osmosis" (Women’s Studies, Harwood Academic Publishers, Vol. 30, Number 1, 2001)
  • "On Collaboration" (American Letters & Commentary, Nineteen, 2008)

Libretti/ Operatic Music Theater

Words on the Street

  • Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY (October/November 2018)

The Wanton Sublime

  • Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre, London, UK (August 2015)
  • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY (April 2014)
  • Berlind Theater, McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (July 2012)
  • The Players Club, New York, NY (May 2011)
  • South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY (May 2011)
  • The Woven Child, Works and Process at the
    Guggenheim Museum
    , NY (January 2010)

Darkling

Discography

  • CD release of complete concert version, Albany Records (2011)

Honors and awards

Reviews

  • from Words on the Street review by Olivia Giovetti in National Sawdust Log: "Matt Marks [composer] saw his work on Words on the Street as 'a gradual act of opening the sonic, dramatic, and visual possibilities of Anna's poems to be shared with our eventual audiences', who...'weren't bred to be [music theatre hybrid] aficionados'...Words on the Street combines this musical point of access with a plot...entrenched in metaphor...a deliberate combination of unlikely forms meant to reflect on disaster in a time of excess and pleasure...treads an...inattentive earth in search of the observant versus the didactic."[3]
  • from Darkling CD review by Alan Lockwood in Time Out: “…textured with vocal and string quartet sequences that smolder or gleam, Darkling is a memory quest and testimonial to broken knowledge…Voices hover and parry, with Weisman’s arias providing both tension and release…Darkling is deeply mindful work.” [4]
  • from Darkling opera review by Steve Smith in Night After Night: “Let Darkling serve as a reminder that opera can also be what and where it is found. This is a profound, provocative piece of musical theater—one that I hope will occasion a great many opera lovers to stray from habitual paths. As specific as the context of Darkling may be, its message is ultimately universal.” [5]
  • from Present Tense review by Anis Shivani in The Huffington Post: “Anna Rabinowitz does apocalypse so well I can't get enough of it” “…Rabinowitz has the audacity to recognize how battered we have become by the inextricable link between desire and destruction.” [6]
  • from The Wanton Sublime review by Janet St. John in Booklist: “The poems do form a "bouquet," plucked from varying sources of truths, lies, and artistic inquisition. Rabinowitz is a highly intellectual poet with unique vision and a distinct voice.” [7]
  • from Darkling review in Publishers Weekly: “This dense, unsettling volume makes a unique contribution to Holocaust literature.” [8]
  • from At the Site of Inside Out review by Claudia Keelan in the Denver Quarterly: “…Anna Rabinowitz confounds both the traditional ideas of closure and postmodern glorification of release, in favor of the pilgrimage that all great writing undertakes…an astonishing book…poem after poem testifies to the inevitable physical relationship between language and life.” [9]

References

  1. ^ "The 17 Most Important Poetry Books Of Fall 2010". HuffPost. 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  2. ^ "Columbia Magazine". magazine.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  3. ^ National Sawdust Log, In Review: Words on the Street by Olivia Giovetti, October 27, 2018 (https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2018/10/29/in-review-words-on-the-street/)
  4. ^ "Time Out New York | New York Events and Things To Do All Year". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  5. ^ "Half-tones in half-dark". The Night After Night Archives. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  6. ^ "The 17 Most Important Poetry Books Of Fall 2010". HuffPost. 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  7. ^ Booklist, Book Review by Janet St. John, August 2006(http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?ind=1)
  8. ^ "Book Reviews, Bestselling Books & Publishing Business News | Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  9. ^ Denver Quarterly, Aftermath Is Rite and Passage by Claudia Keelan, Winter 1998

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