David Ignatow
David Ignatow | |
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New York , U.S. | |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Poetry |
David Ignatow (February 7, 1914 – November 17, 1997) was an American poet and editor.[1]
Life
David Ignatow was born in
East Hampton, New York. His papers are held at University of California, San Diego.[2]
Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the American Poetry Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal, and as poetry editor of The Nation.
He taught at the
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
in 1987.
Awards
Ignatow's many honors include a
Frost Medal (1992), and the William Carlos Williams Award (1997) of the Poetry Society of America.[4]
Bibliography
- Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems (BOA Editions, 1999)
- At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (1998)
- I Have a Name (1996)
- The End Game and Other Stories (1996)
- Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934-1994 (1994)
- Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991)
- Shadowing the Ground (1991)
- If We Knew (Polymorph Editions, 1991)
- New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 (1986)
- Leaving the Door Open (1984)
- Whisper to the Earth (1981)
- Conversations (1980)
- Sunlight (1979)
- Tread the Dark (1978)
- Selected Poems (1975)
- Facing the Tree (1975)
- Poems: 1934-1969 (1970)
- Rescue the Dead (1968)
- Earth Hard: Selected Poems (1968)
- Figures of the Human (1964)
- Say Pardon (1962)
- The Gentle Weightlifter (1955)
- Poems (Decker Press, 1948)
References
External links
- Links to Ignatow's work
- A tribute by Harvey Shapiro
- Gerard Malanga (Fall 1979). "David Ignatow, The Art of Poetry No. 23". The Paris Review. Fall 1979 (76).
- On David Ignatow's Portrait, by Alan Cooper, in the Spring 2010 York College Library newsletter, page 7.
- David Ignatow Papers MSS 2. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: David Ignatow collection
- Ignatow Graubart Papers, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester