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David Wojahn

デイヴィッド・ウォジャン

Deividdo Wojahn

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1953 (St. Paul, Minnesota)
国籍
American
言語
English
宗教
Unknown
居住地歴
St. Paul, Minnesota → Richmond, Virginia

経歴

職業
Poet, Professor of Creative Writing
活動期間
1970年〜2024年
所属
Virginia Commonwealth University, Vermont College of Fine Arts
影響を受けた人物
Richard Hugo
ノミネート
Pulitzer Prize finalist (2007, Interrogation Palace)

学歴

University of Minnesota
Department of English
学位: BA
国: United States
University of Arizona
Creative Writing
学位: MFA
国: United States

受賞歴

Yale Series of Younger Poets
1982
対象作品: Icehouse Lights
主催: Yale University Press
結果: winner
William Carlos Williams Award
1982
対象作品: Icehouse Lights
主催: Poetry Society of America
結果: winner
Society of Midland Authors Award
1987
対象作品: Glassworks
主催: Society of Midland Authors
結果: winner
O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
2006
対象作品: Interrogation Palace
主催: Folger Shakespeare Library
結果: winner
Pulitzer Prize
2007
対象作品: Interrogation Palace
主催: Columbia University
結果: finalist
Guggenheim Fellowship
2003
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: fellow
Poets' Prize
2013
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Icehouse Lights

1982年 Poetry

Debut collection selected by Richard Hugo. Concerns emotive basics: leaving home, watching loved ones age and die, mortality drone.

leaving homeaging and deathmortality

Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004

2006年 Poetry

New and selected poems 1982-2004. Pulitzer finalist.

politicssocial issuespop culture

World Tree

2011年 Poetry

Poetry collection published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

contemporary life

全著作

  • Icehouse Lights (1982)
  • Glassworks (1987)
  • Mystery Train (1990)
  • Late Empire (1994)
  • The Falling Hour (1997)
  • Spirit Cabinet (2002)
  • Interrogation Palace (2006)
  • World Tree (2011)
  • For the Scribe (2017)
  • From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (2015)
  • Strange Good Fortune (2001)

作風・主題

文体
metrical poetryfree versepolitical and social issues
頻出モチーフ
moments of significance in popular cultureJohn Lennon assassinationJim Morrison declineBrian Jones drowning

評価・遺産

Contemporary American poet using metrical and free verse to address political/social issues and pop culture moments. Eight books with Pitt Poetry Series. Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, multiple awards. Professor Emeritus, VCU English.

豆知識

  • Edited poetry collections of his late wife Lynda Hull: The Only World and Collected Poems.