Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.[5]
Biography
The daughter of noted
Morningside Heights, New York City. She received a baccalaureate at Radcliffe College in classics, a Master of Arts (1977) at Johns Hopkins University in poetry, and a doctorate at Princeton University in comparative literature (1982).[5]
Living in Greece after her undergraduate work at Radcliffe, Hadas became an intimate of poet
AIDS crisis, she led poetry workshops for those afflicted, and edited an anthology of poems produced there, Unending Dialogue: Poems from an AIDS Poetry Workshop (1993).[9]
Hadas is also a translator, specializing in Classical Greek and Latin, and has translated the works of Euripides and Nonnus.[10][11][12] Her translations of writers including Tibullus, Charles Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantinos Karyotakis, were collected in Other Worlds Than This (1994).[13] Hadas currently serves as Original English Verse Editor of the journal Classical Outlook.
Hadas taught English at the
Newark campus of Rutgers University from 1981 to 2023; in 2001 she was named Board of Governors Professor of English.[14] Hadas lives in New York City and Danville Vermont and is married to the visual artist Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she collaborates on poetry and video.[15][16][17] She was married to composer George Edwards until his death in 2011.[18] Hadas has a son, Jonathan Hadas Edwards (born 1984), an acupuncturist, herbalist, and writer.[19][17]
Bibliography
Poetry and Prose
- Collections
- Ghost Guest, Ragged Sky Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1-933974-52-1
- Pandemic Almanac, Ragged Sky Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1933974453
- Love and Dread, Measure Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1939574329
- Piece by Piece, Paul Dry Books, 2021, ISBN 9781589881556
- Poems for Camilla, Measure Press, 2018, ISBN 1939574250
- Questions in the Vestibule: Poems, ISBN 978-0-8101-3317-4
- The golden road: poems. Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780810128590.
- Strange Relation, Paul Dry Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58988-061-0
- The Ache of Appetite, Copper Beech Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-914278-84-9
- River of Forgetfulness, David Robert Books, 2006, , 2006)
- Laws, ISBN 978-1-932023-13-8
- Merrill, Cavafy, poems, and dreams. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 2000.
- Indelible. Wesleyan University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8195-6440-5.
- Halfway Down the Hall. (ISBN 978-0-8195-2251-1.
- The Double Legacy: Reflections on a Pair of Deaths (Faber & Faber, 1995)
- The Empty Bed. Wesleyan University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8195-1225-3.
- Mirrors of Astonishment (Rutgers University Press, 1992)
- Living in Time (Rutgers University Press, 1990)
- Pass It On, ISBN 978-0-691-01454-8
- A Son from Sleep. Wesleyan University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8195-1140-9.
- Slow Transparency (Wesleyan University Press, 1983)
- Chapbooks
- Starting from Troy (David R. Godine, 1975)
- "Two Poems" (Dim Gray Bar Press, 2000)
Translations
- Tales of Dionysus, University of Michigan Press, 2022 ISBN 9780472038961
- The Iphigenia Plays of Euripides, Northwestern University Press 2018, ISBN 9780810137233
- Other Worlds Than This, Rutgers University Press, 1994
Anthologies edited
- The Waiting Room Reader II, CavanKerry Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-933880-34-1
- The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2010; Eds., Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck)
- Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop (Ed. with Charles Barber, Faber & Faber, 1991)
Essay collections
- Classics: Essays (Textos Books, 2007)
- Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
- Form, Cycle, Infinity: Landscape Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost & George Seferis. Bucknell University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8387-5073-5.
Memoirs
- Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry. Paul Dry Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1-58988-061-0.
References
- ^ "Lyrics in Search of an Allegory: On Three Recent Books from Rachel Hadas". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters". Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "ISBN 9781933974521 - Ghost Guest: Poems". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ Academy of American Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- ^ a b c d Foundation, Poetry (2024-02-09). "Rachel Hadas". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Memories of Merrill". James Merrill House. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Strange Relation—A memoir of marriage, dementia, and poetry". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Though Much Is Taken, Much Abides: Fifteen Years of Literature & Medicine - Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters". 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Unending dialogue : voices from an AIDS poetry workshop | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "On Translation - Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters". 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "The Iphigenia Plays". Northwestern University Press. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ "Other Worlds Than This". Bucknell University Press. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Rachel Hadas, Author at The American Scholar". The American Scholar. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Offering to Yemaya, Shalom Gorewitz". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Rachel C. Hadas". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ a b "Athenaeum Celebrating Readings In The Gallery With Dedication Of New Sculpture". Caledonian Record. 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Rachel Hadas". Poets.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Author Bio Jonathan Fakayode Hadas Edwards – LEON Literary Review". leonliteraryreview.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
Sources
External links
- RachelHadas.net Author Website
- Audio Reading: Rachel Hadas reads from Euripedes' poem Helen
- Audio Reading: Rachel Hadas reads a poem by Sappho
- Contemporary Poetry Review > 2009 > Interview: The CPR Interview: Rachel Hadas
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