Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 6 (1991) Winner
David Russell Wagoner
デイヴィッド・ラッセル・ワゴナー
David Russell Wagoner
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1926-06-05 （Massillon, Ohio, U.S.）
- Died
- 2021-12-18 （Edmonds, Washington, U.S.） age 95
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Whiting, Indiana (raised) → Pacific Northwest, Washington (residence and career) → Whidbey Island, Washington (teaching/workshops) → Edmonds, Washington (later life)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, educator, editor, professor
- Active Years
- 1953-2021
- Affiliations
- Poetry Northwest (editor), Academy of American Poets (chancellor), University of Washington (professor, professor emeritus)
- Memberships
- Academy of American Poets (served as chancellor)
- Influenced By
- Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Richard Hugo
- Nominations
- National Book Award nominee (Collected Poems) 1977, National Book Award nominee (In Broken Country) 1979
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University | — | — | — | — | United States |
| Indiana University Bloomington | — | English | Master of Arts | — | United States |
Pennsylvania State University
Country:
United States
Attended NROTC and reported to have graduated in three years
Indiana University Bloomington
English
Degree:
Master of Arts
Year of Graduation:
1949
Country:
United States
Received M.A. in English
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Pushcart Prize | — | — | Pushcart Press | 受賞 |
| 1983 | Pushcart Prize | — | — | Pushcart Press | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize | — | — | Poetry Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2011 | Arthur Rense Prize | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| — | American Academy of Arts and Letters award | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| — | Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award | — | — | Sherwood Anderson Foundation | 受賞 |
| — | Ford Foundation Fellowship | — | フェローシップ | Ford Foundation | 受領 |
| — | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | フェローシップ | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受領 |
| — | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | — | フェローシップ | National Endowment for the Arts | 受領 |
Pushcart Prize
1977
Organization:
Pushcart Press
Result:
受賞
Pushcart Prize
1983
Organization:
Pushcart Press
Result:
受賞
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1991
Organization:
Poetry Foundation
Result:
受賞
Arthur Rense Prize
2011
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
American Academy of Arts and Letters award
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
受賞
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award
Organization:
Sherwood Anderson Foundation
Result:
受賞
Ford Foundation Fellowship
Category:
フェローシップ
Organization:
Ford Foundation
Result:
受領
Guggenheim Fellowship
Category:
フェローシップ
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受領
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Category:
フェローシップ
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受領
Awards & Nominations
Arthur Rense Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 5 (2011) Winner
Works
Major Works
Collected Poems
1976 PoetryA 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 PoetryA 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 NovelA novel later adapted for film; sources note involvement of Francis Ford Coppola as an executive producer on a screen version.
escapehuman relationshipsself-exploration
Adaptations
- [Film] The Escape Artist (film) (1982)
Bibliography
- 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)
Adaptations
- Film adaptation of The Escape Artist (production involvement attributed to Francis Ford Coppola)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical, realistic depictions of natureplainspoken, direct dictionstrong sense of regional/local perspective
- Recurring Motifs
- forestscoastlinesland and memoryjourney and thresholds
Legacy
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.
Academic Societies
- Academy of American Poets
Archives
- University of Washington Libraries Special Collections (archives)
- Poetry Foundation archives
In Popular Culture
- Mention via film adaptation of the novel The Escape Artist
Quotes
-
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.
Source: Interview (cited in O'Connell, At the Field's End) (1998)
Trivia
- 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.