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Joseph Stroud

ジョセフ・ストラウド

Joseph Stroud

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1943-01-01 (Glendale, California)
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Santa Cruz, California → Cabin in the Sierra Nevada

経歴

職業
Poet, Teacher (retired)
活動期間
1974年〜
所属
Cabrillo College (teaching, retired)

学歴

University of San Francisco
国: United States
California State University, Los Angeles
国: United States
San Francisco State University
国: United States

受賞歴

Pushcart Prize
2000
主催: Pushcart Press
結果: Winner
Northern California Book Critics Award (finalist)
2005
主催: Northern California Book Critics
結果: Finalist
Witter Bynner Fellowship
2006
主催: Library of Congress
結果: Recipient
Arts and Letters Award in Literature
2011
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: Recipient

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

In the Sleep of Rivers

1974年 Poetry

Early collection of poems exploring rivers, time, and personal memory.

NatureMemoryTime

Signatures

1982年 Poetry

A collection focusing on impressions and traces—poems about signs and signatures.

ImpressionPersonal history

Below Cold Mountain

1998年 Poetry

Poems that trace spiritual searching and wonder through mountains and everyday details; contains the noted pear metaphor.

NatureSpiritualityEveryday life

Country of Light

2004年 Poetry

A book of poems about light, place, and human experience, with reflections of Northern California landscapes.

LightPlaceExperience

Of This World: New and Selected Poems

2008年 Poetry

A selected volume combining new and previously published poems, surveying the arc and themes of his work.

Details of daily lifeMemoryNature

全著作

  • In the Sleep of Rivers (1974)
  • Signatures (1982)
  • Below Cold Mountain (1998)
  • Country of Light (2004)
  • Of This World: New and Selected Poems (2008)

作風・主題

文体
Lyrical, observational styleAttention to everyday detail
頻出モチーフ
Pear and fruit metaphorsMountains and rivers (nature)Memory and place

評価・遺産

Based in Northern California, Stroud is praised for poems rooted in local landscape and everyday life. He has won a Pushcart Prize and an Arts and Letters Award, is included in several anthologies, and holds a notable place in regional American poetry.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters (associated)

引用

  • “Inside the pear there’s a paradise we will never know, our only hint the sweetness of its taste.”
    出典: Comice, Below Cold Mountain (1998年)

豆知識

  • His work has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.
  • He taught at Cabrillo College and is now retired.
  • He divides his time between Santa Cruz and a cabin in the Sierra Nevada.
  • Won a Pushcart Prize in 2000.