1993 in poetry

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Events

  • January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
  • T. S. Eliot Prize created.
  • March 31–April 3 — Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of o•blék magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference.
  • Bound by Honor, a film directed by Taylor Hackford, based on the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who co-wrote the screenplay, is released.
  • Poetic Justice, a film directed by John Singleton, features Maya Angelou's poetry, and she appears as Aunt June.
  • Poesia sempre, is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry
  • A new Yiddish monthly journal, Di yidishe gas ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the Sovetish heymland ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct.
  • December 8 — Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the contents of list postings or the list itself with "outsiders." People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

Canada

  • George Bowering:
    • The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe
    • George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992
  • Marilyn Bowering, Love as It Is
  • Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, selected from works written between 1956 and 1992
  • Sheree Fitch, In This House Are Many Women
  • Judith Fitzgerald:
    • Walkin' Wounded, including a cycle of baseball poems
    • "Habit of Blues," a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist Juan Butler.
  • Bryan Gooch and Maureen Niwa, editors, The Emergence of the Muse: Major Canadian Poets from Crawford to Pratt, Toronto: Oxford University Press (scholarship)[1]
  • Irving Layton, Fornalutx
  • Dennis Lee, Riffs
  • A. F. Moritz, The Ruined Cottage[2]
  • bp Nichol:
    • Truth: A Book of Fictions
    • First Screening
  • Raymond Souster, in Old Bank Notes

New Zealand

  • Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[3]
  • Andrew Johnston, Sol How to Talk, winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award
  • Cilla McQueen, Crïk´ey: New and Selected Poems
  • W. H. Oliver, Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, co-author: Anne Munz; Wellington: BlackBerry Press, New Zealand
  • Keith Sinclair, Moontalk
  • Ian Wedde, The Drummer

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Donald Hall, Life Work, a memoir
  • Jay Parini, editor, The Columbia History of American Poetry[5]
  • Alex Preminger, and T. V. F. Brogan, editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press[6]
  • Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
  • Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, Selected Letters, correspondence between the poet and his publisher

Anthologies in the United States

  • Don Burness, editor, Echoes of the Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies[5]
  • John Hollander, editor, American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century, two volumes (Library of America)[5]
  • Garrett Hongo, editor, The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America, New York: Doubleday[5]

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1993

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1993, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Louise Glück:

Other in English

Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Denmark

  • Pia Tafdrup, Krystalskoven
  • Henrik Nordbrandt, Støvets tyngde
  • Thorkild Bjørnvig, Siv vand og måne
  • Kirsten Hammann, Vera Vinkelvir, a cross between a prose poem and a novel

French language

Canada

  • Claude Beausoleil, L'Usage du temps
  • Louise Dupré, Noir déjà
  • Madeleine Gagnon, La Terre est remplie de langage
  • Serge-Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague

France

Germany

  • Heinz Czechowski, Nachtspur
  • Wulf Kirsten, Stimmenschotter
  • Richard Wagner, Heisse Maroni

Hebrew

  • Mordechai Geldman, A'yin ("Eye")
  • Israel Eliraz, Pe Karu'a ("A Torn Mouth")
  • Tamir Greenberg, Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat")
  • Zvika Shternfeld, Hamarkiza miGovari ("The Marquise of Govari")
  • Shimon Shloush, Tola Havui shel Asham ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt")

Portuguese language

Portugal

  • Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, A poeira levada pelo vento

Brazil

  • Waly Salamão, Armarinho da miudezas, which reflects native Bahian traditions
  • Sebastião Uchoa Leite, published a poetry book
  • Felipe Fortuna published a poetry book
  • Adão Ventura, Texturaafro,

Spain

Sweden

Yiddish

  • Yisroel Khaym Biletski, Uri Tsvi Grinberg der yidish-dikhter ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet

Other

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Poetry portal

Notes

  1. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  2. ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  3. ^ a b c Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  4. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  5. ^ a b c d "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  6. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  7. ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
  8. ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  9. ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
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