Barbara Jordan (poet)
Barbara Jordan | |
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| Born | 1949 N/A |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Academic |
| Employer | University of Rochester |
| Known for | Poetry, Academic Work |
| Notable work | Tutelary poems, Channel, Trace elements |
| Awards | 1989 Barnard Women Poets Prize |
Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet and academic. She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director.[1][2] Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,[4] Harvard Review.
Awards
Works
- Tutelary poems. Radio Cologne.
- Channel. Beacon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8070-6809-0.
- Trace elements. Penguin Books. 1998.
Essays
- "Vision as Appetite: Clampitt as Naturalist". Antietam Review. xii. Spring 1992. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06.
Reviews
Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:
"Consciousness as landscape, /
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"
The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.[5]
References
- ^ "Rochester Review V61 N3--Class Notes". www.rochester.edu.
- ^ "Currents--March 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu.
- ^ "The Paris Review - Winter II 1989". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ^ "Search : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ DAVID YEZZI (June 1, 1999). "Trace Elements.(Review)". Poetry.[dead link]
External links
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