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David Russell Wagoner

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David Russell Wagoner

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1926-06-05 (Massillon, Ohio, U.S.)
死没
2021-12-18 (Edmonds, Washington, U.S.) 95歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Whiting, Indiana (raised) → Pacific Northwest, Washington (residence and career) → Whidbey Island, Washington (teaching/workshops) → Edmonds, Washington (later life)

経歴

職業
poet, novelist, educator, editor, professor
活動期間
1953年〜2021年
所属
Poetry Northwest (editor), Academy of American Poets (chancellor), University of Washington (professor, professor emeritus)
所属団体
Academy of American Poets (served as chancellor)
影響を受けた人物
Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Richard Hugo
ノミネート
National Book Award nominee (Collected Poems) 1977, National Book Award nominee (In Broken Country) 1979

学歴

Pennsylvania State University
国: United States
Attended NROTC and reported to have graduated in three years
Indiana University Bloomington
English
学位: Master of Arts
卒業年: 1949
国: United States
Received M.A. in English

受賞歴

Pushcart Prize
1977
主催: Pushcart Press
結果: 受賞
Pushcart Prize
1983
主催: Pushcart Press
結果: 受賞
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1991
主催: Poetry Foundation
結果: 受賞
Arthur Rense Prize
2011
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: 受賞
American Academy of Arts and Letters award
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: 受賞
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award
主催: Sherwood Anderson Foundation
結果: 受賞
Ford Foundation Fellowship
部門: フェローシップ
主催: Ford Foundation
結果: 受領
Guggenheim Fellowship
部門: フェローシップ
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受領
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
部門: フェローシップ
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: 受領

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Collected Poems

1976年 Poetry

A collection spanning his early to mid career, including many poems focused on the natural environment and sense of place in the Pacific Northwest.

natureland/placeidentityPacific Northwest

In Broken Country

1979年 Poetry

A poetry collection blending regional concerns with personal experience; included work that garnered a National Book Award nomination.

land and memoryenvironmentpersonal history

The Escape Artist

1965年 Novel

A novel later adapted for film; sources note involvement of Francis Ford Coppola as an executive producer on a screen version.

escapehuman relationshipsself-exploration
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] The Escape Artist (film) (1982)

全著作

  • Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953)
  • A Place to Stand (1958)
  • Poems (1959)
  • The Nesting Ground (1963)
  • Staying Alive (1966)
  • New and Selected Poems (1969)
  • Riverbed (1972)
  • Sleeping in the Woods (1974)
  • A Guide to Dungeness Spit (1975)
  • Collected Poems, 1956–1976
  • Who Shall Be the Sun? (1978)
  • In Broken Country (1979)
  • One for the Rose (1981)
  • Landfall (1981)
  • My Physics Teacher (1981)
  • First Light (1983)
  • Through the Forest (1987)
  • Walt Whitman Bathing (1996)
  • Traveling Light (1999)
  • The House of Song (2002)
  • Good Morning and Good Night (2005)
  • A Map of the Night (2008)
  • After the Point of No Return (2012)

翻案

  • Film adaptation of The Escape Artist (production involvement attributed to Francis Ford Coppola)

作風・主題

文体
lyrical, realistic depictions of natureplainspoken, direct dictionstrong sense of regional/local perspective
頻出モチーフ
forestscoastlinesland and memoryjourney and thresholds

評価・遺産

David Wagoner centered much of his poetry on the nature and sense of place in the Pacific Northwest, edited Poetry Northwest for decades, and significantly contributed to the development of regional poetry while teaching and mentoring younger writers.

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets

資料所蔵先

  • University of Washington Libraries Special Collections (archives)
  • Poetry Foundation archives

大衆文化への影響

  • Mention via film adaptation of the novel The Escape Artist

引用

  • When I came over the Cascades and down into the coastal rainforest for the first time in the fall of 1954, it was a big event for me, it was a real crossing of a threshold, a real change of consciousness. Nothing was ever the same again.
    出典: Interview (cited in O'Connell, At the Field's End) (1998年)

豆知識

  • Editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 to 2002.
  • Served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1978 to 1999.
  • Novel The Escape Artist was adapted for screen; Francis Ford Coppola is noted as involved in the production.
  • Survived by his wife Robin Seyfried and two daughters.
  • Died in his sleep at a nursing home in Edmonds, Washington on December 18, 2021, aged 95.