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Monica Youn

モニカ・ユン

Monica Youn

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
Houston, Texas, U.S.
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Houston (birth / childhood) → Princeton (student / lecturer) → Oxford (graduate study) → New York (legal / policy work) → Irvine (University of California, Irvine faculty)

経歴

職業
Poet, Lawyer, University professor
活動期間
1998年〜
所属
University of California, Irvine (creative writing faculty), Brennan Center for Justice (former director, campaign finance reform project), Princeton University (lecturer)
影響を受けた人物
Rainer Maria Rilke

学歴

Princeton University
Undergraduate / Comparative Literature / Creative Writing (minor)
学位: B.A.
卒業年: 1993
国: United States
Undergraduate studies with pre-law focus and a minor in creative writing
University of Oxford
Graduate (M.Phil) / English Literature
学位: M.Phil
卒業年: 1995
国: United Kingdom
Attended as a Rhodes Scholar; began publishing poems while at Oxford
Yale Law School
Law / Law
学位: J.D.
卒業年: 1998
国: United States
Received a Stegner Fellowship while at Yale and completed manuscript for first collection

受賞歴

Stegner Fellowship
主催: Stanford University
結果: 受賞
Witter Bynner Fellowship
2008
主催: Library of Congress / Poetry Foundation
結果: 受賞
National Book Award (Poetry)
2010
対象作品: Ignatz
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 最終候補（Finalist）
National Book Award (Poetry) — Longlist
2016
対象作品: Blackacre
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 長期候補（Longlist）
William Carlos Williams Award
2017
対象作品: Blackacre
主催: Poetry Society of America
結果: 受賞
National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry)
2017
対象作品: Blackacre
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: 最終候補（Finalist）
PEN Open Book Award
2017
対象作品: Blackacre
主催: PEN America
結果: 最終候補（Finalist）
Guggenheim Fellowship
2018
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞
Levinson Prize
2019
主催: Poetry Foundation
結果: 受賞
National Book Award (Poetry)
2023
対象作品: From From
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 最終候補（Finalist）
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2024
対象作品: From From
主催: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
結果: 受賞
Yaddo (residency)
主催: Yaddo
結果: 受賞／選出
MacDowell Fellowship
主催: MacDowell Colony
結果: 受賞／選出
Rockefeller Foundation / Bellagio residency
主催: Rockefeller Foundation
結果: 受賞／選出

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Barter

2003年 Poetry

First collection of poems exploring personal experience and the uses of language.

languagepersonal historyidentity

Ignatz

2010年 Poetry

A mid-career collection marked by image-driven and formal experimentation; shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Award (Poetry).

linguistic experimentimagerymemory

Blackacre

2016年 Poetry

A collection addressing law, property, language, and power; winner of the William Carlos Williams Award and longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award.

lawpropertypowerlanguage

From From

2023年 Poetry

A recent collection mixing formal play with explorations of cultural and personal memory; finalist for the 2023 National Book Award and winner of the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

memoryculturelanguagefamily

全著作

  • Barter (2003)
  • Ignatz (2010)
  • Blackacre (2016)
  • From From (2023)
  • Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United (ed., 2011)

作風・主題

文体
Tension between legal/political vocabulary and lyrical languageFormal experimentation and image-driven poetics
頻出モチーフ
law and propertypower of languagememory and familyidentity

評価・遺産

Known for bridging poetry and law, she is recognized as an important voice in contemporary American poetry. Her collections such as Blackacre and From From have received critical acclaim and multiple award recognitions.

引用

  • A book of Rilke poems I read as a high-schooler was the 'click' that first got me interested in poetry.
    出典: Interview / Wikipedia summary

豆知識

  • Attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
  • Member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • Has combined a legal career with ongoing work as a poet.
  • Blackacre was noted for its treatment of law and language.