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Jane Shore

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Jane Shore

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性別
女性
国籍
American
言語
English
居住地歴
Cambridge, Massachusetts → New Jersey → Oahu, Hawaii → East Calais, Vermont → Chevy Chase, Maryland

経歴

職業
Poet, Professor
活動期間
1969年〜
所属
George Washington University (English Department), Harvard University (Briggs-Copeland Lecturer), Radcliffe Institute (Fellow)
影響を受けた人物
Elizabeth Bishop
ノミネート
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award (Music Minus One)

学歴

Goddard College
国: United States
Moved from Goddard to the Iowa Writers' Workshop
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
国: United States
Attended the writers' workshop for poetry
Radcliffe College
卒業年: 1972
国: United States
Studied under Elizabeth Bishop

受賞歴

Juniper Prize
1977
対象作品: Eye Level
主催: University of Massachusetts Press
結果: winner
Lamont Poetry Prize
1986
対象作品: The Minute Hand
主催: University of Massachusetts Press / Academy of American Poets
結果: winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)
1996
対象作品: Music Minus One
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: finalist
Guggenheim Fellowship
1991
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: recipient
NEA grants
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: recipient (複数回)
Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute fellowship (poetry)
主催: Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
結果: fellow
Alfred Hodder Fellow (Princeton University)
主催: Princeton University
結果: fellow

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Lying Down in the Olive Press

1969年 Poetry

Early collection featuring poems that focus on personal landscapes and everyday details.

personal historyeveryday lifememory

Eye Level

1977年 Poetry

Published 1977; poems observing emotions and scenes from an 'eye-level' perspective.

observationselfdomestic life

The Minute Hand

1987年 Poetry

A collection centered on time, domestic life, and personal memory; winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize.

timefamilymemory

Music Minus One

1996年 Poetry

1996 collection using musical imagery and themes of absence; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

musicabsenceloss

Happy Family: Poems

1999年 Poetry

A series of poems focusing on family and intimate relationships.

familyrelationshipsintimacy

A yes-or-no answer

2008年 Poetry

Collection exploring questions and answers in concise language.

questioningresponseeveryday life

That said: new and selected poems

2012年 Poetry (new and selected)

A selected volume combining new poems with representative work, surveying her poetic career.

retrospectionpersonal historyeveryday life

全著作

  • Lying Down in the Olive Press
  • Eye Level
  • The Minute Hand
  • Music Minus One
  • Happy Family: Poems
  • A yes-or-no answer: poems
  • That said: new and selected poems

作風・主題

文体
clear, observational voicelyric yet narrative diction
頻出モチーフ
home and familymemoryobjects of daily lifemusic

評価・遺産

Jane Shore is a notable contemporary American poet and educator whose work, focusing on everyday detail, family, and memory, has earned multiple prizes and fellowships. She has also influenced generations of students as a university professor.

豆知識

  • Married writer Howard Norman in 1984.
  • Has a daughter, Emma, born in 1988.
  • A 2003 tragedy involving poet Reetika Vazirani, who was housesitting at the Normans' Chevy Chase home, has been reported in connection with Shore's household.