Oregon Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1992) Winner
Vern Rutsala
ヴァーン・ラッツァラ
Vern Rutsala
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1934-02-05 （McCall, Idaho, United States）
- Died
- 2014-04-02 （Oregon, United States） age 80
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- McCall, Idaho → Portland, Oregon
Career
- Occupations
- poet, educator, professor
- Active Years
- 1964-2014
- Affiliations
- Lewis & Clark College (faculty), University of Minnesota (visiting), Bowling Green State University (visiting), University of Redlands (visiting), University of Idaho (visiting), U.S. Army (served)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed College | — | English | B.A. | 1952-1956 | United States |
| Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa) | — | Creative Writing / Workshop | M.F.A. | 1959-1961 | United States |
Reed College
English
Degree:
B.A.
Period:
1952-1956
Year of Graduation:
1956
Country:
United States
Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa)
Creative Writing / Workshop
Degree:
M.F.A.
Period:
1959-1961
Year of Graduation:
1961
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 1979 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 1975 | Northwest Poets Prize | — | — | Northwest Poets Prize | 受賞 |
| 1982 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize | — | — | Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Masters Fellowship (Oregon Arts Commission) | — | — | Oregon Arts Commission | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Oregon Book Award | — | — | Oregon Book Awards | 受賞 |
| 1994 | Juniper Prize | Little-known Sports | — | Juniper Prize | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Richard Snyder Prize | — | — | Richard Snyder Prize | 受賞 |
| 2005 | National Book Award for Poetry | The Moment's Equation | — | National Book Foundation | 最終候補 |
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1974
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
Northwest Poets Prize
1975
Organization:
Northwest Poets Prize
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1982
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize
1988
Organization:
Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize
Result:
受賞
Masters Fellowship (Oregon Arts Commission)
1990
Organization:
Oregon Arts Commission
Result:
受賞
Oregon Book Award
1992
Organization:
Oregon Book Awards
Result:
受賞
Juniper Prize
1994
Work:
Little-known Sports
Organization:
Juniper Prize
Result:
受賞
Richard Snyder Prize
2003
Organization:
Richard Snyder Prize
Result:
受賞
National Book Award for Poetry
2005
Work:
The Moment's Equation
Organization:
National Book Foundation
Result:
最終候補
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Window
1964 poetry collectionEarly collection exploring everyday observation and personal memory.
memoryeveryday life
Small Songs: A Sequence
1969 poetry collectionA sequence of short poems attentive to sound and rhythm.
soundform
Laments
1975 poetry collectionCollection centered on loss and lamentation.
losslament
Walking Home from the Icehouse
1981 poetry collectionPoems depicting moments of life through personal journeys and regional landscape.
journeylandscapememory
Selected Poems
1991 poetry collection (selected)A selected collection gathering representative poems from his career.
lifetime
Little-known Sports
1994 poetry collectionShort poems blending humor and observation.
humorobservation
The Moment's Equation
2004 poetry collectionConsidered a mature work exploring time and being across the poems.
timeexistence
A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems
2004 prose poems / essaysCollection of prose poems and essays addressing craft and composition.
craftlanguage
How We Spent Our Time
2006 poetry collectionLater poems reflecting on the passage of life and details of daily existence.
timedaily life
The Long Haul
2015 poetry collection (posthumous)Posthumous collection containing late poems and unpublished material.
posthumousretrospective
Bibliography
- The Window (1964)
- Small Songs: A Sequence (1969)
- The Harmful State (1971)
- Laments (1975)
- The Journey Begins (1976)
- Paragraphs (1978)
- The New Life (1978)
- Walking Home from the Icehouse (1981)
- The Mystery of the Lost Shoes (1985)
- Backtracking (1985)
- Ruined Cities (1987)
- Selected Poems (1991)
- Little-known Sports (1994)
- The Moment's Equation (2004)
- A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems (2004)
- How We Spent Our Time (2006)
- The Long Haul (2015)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- clear, lyrical styleconcrete depictions based on everyday observationworked across prose-poems and short lyric forms
- Recurring Motifs
- timememorylandscape / regionalismdetails of daily lifejourney
Legacy
Vern Rutsala established a distinctive lyric voice rooted in Western landscape and everyday observation, and over decades of teaching at Lewis & Clark College influenced many poets. He received fellowships and multiple literary awards and holds an important place in regional American letters.
Archives
- Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives
Trivia
- Served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958.
- Taught at Lewis & Clark College for more than forty years and retired in 2004.
- Finalist for the National Book Award in 2005 for The Moment's Equation.
- Died in Oregon on April 2, 2014; a posthumous collection was published in 2015.