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Hayden Carruth

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Hayden Carruth

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1921-08-03 (Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.)
死没
2008-09-29 (Syracuse, New York, U.S.) 87歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Woodbury, Connecticut (childhood) → Johnson, Vermont (long-term residence) → Munnsville, New York (later residence)

経歴

職業
poet, literary critic, anthologist, professor
活動期間
1943年〜2008年
所属
Johnson State College (poet-in-residence; 1972–1974), University of Vermont (adjunct professor; 1975–1978), Syracuse University (Professor of English, graduate creative writing program; 1979–1991), Harper's Magazine (poetry editor; 1977–1988), Poetry magazine (editor-in-chief; 1949–1950)
影響を受けた人物
Alexander Pope, Jazz and the blues
影響を与えた人物
Brooks Haxton, Allen Hoey, Younger poets associated with Syracuse University and Vermont

学歴

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
学位: B.A.
期間: 1939–1943
卒業年: 1943
国: United States
University of Chicago
学位: M.A.
期間: 1946–1948
卒業年: 1948
国: United States

受賞歴

National Book Critics Circle Award (Collected Shorter Poems)
1992
対象作品: Collected Shorter Poems
部門:
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: 受賞
National Book Award (Poetry)
1996
対象作品: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
部門:
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 受賞
Lannan Literary Award
1996
主催: Lannan Foundation
結果: 受賞
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1990
主催: The Poetry Foundation
結果: 受賞
Carl Sandburg Award
結果: 受賞
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
結果: 受賞
Paterson Poetry Prize
結果: 受賞
Vermont Governor's Medal
結果: 受賞
Whiting Award
主催: Whiting Foundation
結果: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞(フェローシップ)
NEA Fellowship
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: 受賞(フェローシップ)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Collected Shorter Poems

1992年 poetry collection

A compilation of shorter poems from 1946 to 1991 showcasing formal range, colloquial voice, and influences from jazz and the blues.

naturerural lifelonelinessdeath

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

1996年 poetry collection

A collection of poems from 1991–1995 that won the 1996 National Book Award; mixes personal experience, rural imagery, and musical rhythms.

memorymusicagingregionalism

Last Poems

2012年 poetry collection

Posthumous collection combining poems written late in life with concluding poems from previous volumes.

deathremembrancefinality

全著作

  • The Crow and the Heart (1959)
  • The Norfolk Poems (1962)
  • Appendix A (1963) - novel
  • Nothing for Tigers: Poems 1959–1964 (1965)
  • For You—Poems (1970)
  • Collected Shorter Poems: 1946–1991 (1992)
  • Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991–1995 (1996)
  • Doctor Jazz (2001)
  • Last Poems (2012)

作風・主題

文体
colloquial, rhythm-driven dictionrhythmic and formal influences from jazz and the blueswide formal range and experimental tendencies
頻出モチーフ
Vermont and New England landscapespoverty and laborloneliness and insanitydeath and aging

健康

  • stroke(s)
    晩年(2000年代)
    Significantly affected late-life creative output and overall health; complications following a series of strokes led to his death.

評価・遺産

An important figure in American contemporary poetry and criticism. Known for incorporating jazz and blues sensibilities into a wide-ranging poetics, he influenced and mentored younger poets. Winner of major awards including the National Book Award; his late works and correspondence are preserved for scholarship.

資料所蔵先

  • Inventory of the Hayden Carruth Letters and Poems at the Newberry Library

大衆文化への影響

  • Audio CD recordings of the author reading his poems

引用

  • He lauded Pope's rationalism and pandeism, calling him the author of the greatest mock-epic in English literature.
    出典: Suicides and Jazzers (1992) (1992年)

豆知識

  • Served as vice president of his high school class and was jokingly credited with the "prettiest hair."
  • Wrote for over sixty years.
  • Often wrote about the people and landscapes of northern Vermont.