Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Piece by Piece: Selected Prose (Paul Dry Books, 2021),[1] and her most recent poetry collection is Love and Dread (Measure Press Inc., 2021).[2] Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants,[3] the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.[4]
Biography
The daughter of noted Columbia University classicist Moses Hadas and Latin teacher Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas, Hadas grew up in Morningside Heights, New York City. She received a baccalaureate at Radcliffe College in classics, a Master of Arts (1977) at Johns Hopkins University in poetry, and a doctorate at Princeton University in comparative literature (1982). Marrying a man from the island of Samos and living in Greece after her undergraduate work at Radcliffe, Hadas became an intimate of poets James Merrill and Alan Ansen, both of whom strongly influenced her early work, as did Cavafy, whose work she translated, and Seferis.[5]
She is often associated with the New Formalism school of poetry, and her work was included in landmark collections of New Formalism including Rebel Angels and A Formal Feeling Comes. Her subject matter ranges from her roots in the classics through the intimately personal, with memory a recurring theme throughout her work.[6]
During the height of the AIDS crisis, she led poetry workshops for those afflicted, and edited a number of their works with Charles Barber, experiences that informed her subsequent work. Her translations of writers including Tibullus, Charles Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantinos Karyotakis, have been published to much acclaim.[7] She has taught English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University since 1981, where, as of 2006, she is the Board of Governors Professor of English. Hadas will be teaching at the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in August, 2021. Hadas lives in New York City and Vermont and is married to the visual artist Shalom Gorewitz.[8] She was married to composer George Edwards until his death in 2011.[9] Hadas has a son, Jonathan Hadas Edwards (born 1984).[10]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Broadsides
- Hadas, Rachel (2009). Nostos. New York: Center for Book Arts.
- Collections
- Questions in the Vestibule: Poems, Northwestern University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8101-3317-4
- The golden road: poems. Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780810128590.
- The Ache of Appetite, Copper Beech Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-914278-84-9
- River of Forgetfulness, David Robert Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-933456-24-9; (WordTech Communications, 2006)
- Laws, University of Nebraska Press, 2004), ISBN 978-1-932023-13-8
- Merrill, Cavafy, poems, and dreams. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 2000.
- Indelible. Wesleyan University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8195-6440-5.
- Halfway Down the Hall. (Wesleyan University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8195-2251-1.
- The Double Legacy: Reflections on a Pair of Deaths (Faber & Faber, 1995)
- The Empty Bed. Wesleyan University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8195-1225-3.
- Mirrors of Astonishment (Rutgers University Press, 1992)
- Living in Time (Rutgers University Press, 1990)
- Pass It On, Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-691-01454-8
- A Son from Sleep. Wesleyan University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8195-1140-9.
- Slow Transparency (Wesleyan University Press, 1983)
- Chapbooks
- Starting from Troy (David R. Godine, 1975)
- "Two Poems" (Dim Gray Bar Press, 2000)
- Translations
- Other Worlds Than This (Rutger University Press, 1994)
- Anthologies edited
- The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2010; Eds., Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck)
- Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop (Ed. with Charles Barber, Faber & Faber, 1991)
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bird, weasel, fountain | Hadas, Rachel (2006). "Bird, weasel, fountain". In Collins, Billy (ed.). Best American Poetry 2006. | ||
| A poultice | 2016 | Hadas, Rachel (February 29, 2016). "A poultice". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 3. pp. 50–51. | |
| Love and dread | 2019 | Hadas, Rachel (November 18, 2019). "Love and dread". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 36. p. 42. |
Essay collections
- Classics: Essays (Textos Books, 2007)
- Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
- Form, Cycle, Infinity: Landscape Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost & George Seferis. Bucknell University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8387-5073-5.
Memoirs
- Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry. Paul Dry Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1-58988-061-0.
References
- Library of Congress Online Catalog > Rachel Hadas > Classics: Essays
- Library of Congress Online Catalog > Rachel Hadas > River of Forgetfulness
- Academy of American Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- The Poetry Foundation > Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- The Poetry Foundation > Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- Raconteur Events > September 2008 > Event Schedule > Reader Bios
- The Poetry Foundation > Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- "Rachel C. Hadas". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- Academy of American Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
- "Poetry and Video: Rachel Hadas, Jonathan Edwards, & Shalom Gorewitz". Literary Arts. Retrieved 2021-07-09.