Walt Whitman Award
1 appearances
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Edition 23 (1997) Winner
Barbara Ras
バーバラ・ラス
Baabara Rasu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1949-01-01 （New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- New Bedford, Massachusetts → San Antonio, Texas → Colombia (periods of residence) → Costa Rica (periods of residence)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, translator, editor, press director
- Active Years
- 1970-
- Affiliations
- Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, University of California Press, North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sierra Club Books, University of Georgia Press (Senior Editor, environmental books), Trinity University Press (Director)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simmons College | — | — | — | — | United States |
| University of Oregon | — | — | — | — | United States |
Simmons College
Country:
United States
University of Oregon
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Walt Whitman Award | Bite Every Sorrow | — | Academy of American Poets | 受賞 |
| 2009 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| — | Georgia Author of the Year Award (poetry) | — | 詩 | — | 受賞 |
| — | Ascher Montandon Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Kate Tufts Discovery Award | — | — | The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards | 受賞 |
| — | Honors from National Writers Union, Villa Montalvo, San Jose Poetry Center | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Walt Whitman Award
1997
Work:
Bite Every Sorrow
Organization:
Academy of American Poets
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2009
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Georgia Author of the Year Award (poetry)
Category:
詩
Result:
受賞
Ascher Montandon Award
Result:
受賞
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Organization:
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
Result:
受賞
Honors from National Writers Union, Villa Montalvo, San Jose Poetry Center
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1999) Winner
Works
Major Works
Bite Every Sorrow
1998 Poetry collectionHer first poetry collection, combining nature, loss, and personal memory in lyrical poems.
naturelossmemory
One Hidden Stuff
2006 Poetry collectionA mid-career collection exploring the uncanny and loss within everyday observation and personal history.
everyday lifelossawareness
The Last Skin
2010 Poetry collectionA collection centered on corporeality, transformation, and the passage of time, examining inner change and its relation to the world.
bodytransformationtime
The Blues of Heaven
2021 Poetry collectionA recent collection that ties themes of loss, consolation, and hope to a blues-inflected sensibility.
lossconsolationhopemusicality
Bibliography
- Bite Every Sorrow
- One Hidden Stuff
- The Last Skin
- The Blues of Heaven
- Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion (ed.)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical, rich in natural descriptionconcise observational lines with a musical rhythm
- Recurring Motifs
- naturetravellossmemoryLatin American landscapes
Legacy
Barbara Ras is known for intertwining natural description and personal memory in her poetry and has contributed to contemporary American poetry both as a poet and as an editor/press director.
Trivia
- Served as Director of Trinity University Press from 2002 to 2015.
- Has lived in Colombia and Costa Rica; Latin American landscapes and cultures have influenced her work.
- Has one daughter, born in 1984.