Mary Kinzie
Mary Kinzie (born September 30, 1944) is an American poet.
Mary Kinzie | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 30, 1944 Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University |
Life
She received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1967, and returned there to teach in 1975. She won Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the Free University of Berlin and Johns Hopkins University.
Kinzie won the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2008 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, the only major American prize to recognize a poet for teaching as well as writing.[1]
Bibliography
Poetry
- California Sorrow. Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-26680-4.
- Drift. Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. ISBN 978-0-375-41463-3.
- The Ghost Ship. Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-44645-3.
- Autumn Eros and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-58992-3.
- Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems. The Sheep Meadow Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-935296-83-9.
- Masked Women (1990)
- The Threshold of the Year. University of Missouri Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8262-0361-8.
Essays
- The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling. University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-226-43736-1. (which includes the influential and controversial essay "The Rhapsodic Fallacy").
Theory
- A Poet's Guide to Poetry. University of Chicago Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-226-43739-2.
References
- "About the 2008 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize Winner". The Folger Shakespeare Library.
External links
- An interview with Mary Kinzie and audio clips of her reading three of her poems at the National Humanities Center
- Mary Kinzie's homepage at Northwestern University
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