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Robert Wrigley

ロバート・リグリー

Robāto Rigurī

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1951-01-01 (East St. Louis, Illinois)
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
East St. Louis, Illinois (birth) → University of Montana (study) → Idaho (worked as writer and educator)

経歴

職業
poet, educator, university professor
活動期間
1976年〜
所属
University of Idaho (former faculty)
影響を受けた人物
Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, John Haines

学歴

University of Montana
Graduate Program (Creative Writing) / Poetry (MFA)
学位: M.F.A.
期間: 1970s
卒業年: 1976
国: United States
Studied under Richard Hugo and others

受賞歴

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
対象作品: Reign of Snakes
主催: Kingsley Tufts Award Committee
結果: winner
Poets' Prize
2005
対象作品: Lives of the Animals
主催: Poets' Prize Committee
結果: winner
San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award
1995
対象作品: In the Bank of Beautiful Sins
主催: San Francisco Poetry Center
結果: winner
Pacific Northwest Book Award
2017
対象作品: Box
主催: Pacific Northwest Book Award Committee
結果: winner
Pushcart Prize (multiple)
主催: Pushcart Press
結果: winner (累計7回)
National Endowment for the Arts (Fellowship)
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: fellowship

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Reign of Snakes

1999年 poetry collection

A collection of poems focusing on nature and human existence, addressing life, death, and the details of everyday life.

naturelife and deathregional identity

Lives of the Animals

2003年 poetry collection

A poetry collection exploring relationships between animals, nature, and human society; widely reviewed and discussed.

animalsnature observationethics

In the Bank of Beautiful Sins

1995年 poetry collection

A richly imagistic collection of poems juxtaposing personal memory with universal questions.

memorymoralityimagism

Box

2017年 poetry collection

A later collection that weaves memory, materiality, and fragments of everyday life.

memoryobjectseveryday life

Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems

2006年 poetry collection / selected poems

A selected collection combining new and previously published poems, covering many of Wrigley's representative works.

nature poetryrecollectionregionalism

全著作

  • The Sinking of Clay City (1979)
  • The Glow (1982, chapbook)
  • Three broadsides — "The Beliefs of a Horse", "A Preference in Birds", "Surfaces" (1984)
  • Moon in a Mason Jar (1986)
  • In the Dark Pool (1987, chapbook)
  • What My Father Believed (1991)
  • In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995)
  • Reign of Snakes (1999)
  • Clemency (2002, chapbook)
  • Lives of the Animals (2003)
  • Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (2006)
  • Beautiful Country (2010)
  • After a Rainstorm (2010)
  • Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (2013)
  • The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (2013, UK)
  • Box (2017)
  • Nemerov's Door: Essays (2021)
  • The True Account of Myself As a Bird (2022)

作風・主題

文体
rich imagistic stylerestrained colloquial rhythmsemphasis on regionalism and nature
頻出モチーフ
nature and animalsmemory and losseveryday details

評価・遺産

An important voice in contemporary American nature poetry. Also a longtime educator who influenced many poets. Recipient of multiple awards and frequently published in literary journals and anthologies.

資料所蔵先

  • University of Idaho Special Collections (holds related materials)

豆知識

  • Married to memoirist Kim Barnes.
  • Has received seven Pushcart Prizes.
  • Retired from the University of Idaho MFA program in 2016.