Rachel Hadas
Autore di Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry
Sull'Autore
Rachel Hadas is the author of twenty books of poetry, essays, and translations, most recently the prose collection Talking to the Dead, The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the O. B. Hardison Poetry Prize, among other honors, Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers mostra altro University-Newark. She lives in New York City with her husband, artist Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she has been working on marrying poetry and video. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: James J. Kriegsmann Jr.
Opere di Rachel Hadas
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When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hadas, Rachel
- Data di nascita
- 1948-11-08
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Princeton University (PhD | 1982)
Johns Hopkins University (MA | 1977)
Radcliffe College (BA|1969) - Attività lavorative
- poet
essayist
professor
translator - Relazioni
- Hadas, Moses (father)
Gorewitz, Shalom (husband)
Edwards, George (husband - until his death in 2011) - Organizzazioni
- Rutgers University, Newark
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1990)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1995) - Breve biografia
- Rachel Hadas grew up in Manhattan, a daughter of classical scholar Moses Hadas and Latin teacher Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas. Since 1981, she has taught in the English Department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University; she previously taught writing courses at Columbia, Princeton, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the West Chester Poetry Conference, and the 92nd Street Y in New York. Besides publishing her own work, she has translated poetry by Euripides, Racine, Baudelaire, Karyotakis, and many others.
She was married for more than 30 years to composer and music professor George Edwards, who died in 2011.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 168
- Popolarità
- #126,679
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 41
The truth is, if the whole book had been composed only of the intro and these poems, whether with added poems or not, this undoubtedly would have been a five-star read for me.
And yet. The last third (loosely) of the book is made up of poems and related explications of those poems, all of this written by the author who put together the collection. But even with my interest opened up to her by the opening essay, I still found it incredibly difficult to get through this section. The poems felt needlessly belabored, and often more like cut-up prose than poetry. The explications were...well...I felt like they wandered between being painfully academic and self-congratulatory. They made me dislike the author and her voice, to be honest, and I had to keep reminding myself what the first two thirds of the book had felt and looked like in order to push myself forward.
So, where does that leave me? I would absolutely recommend the first two portions of this book, the opening material and then the actual poems from the workshop. I cannot recommend what comes after them, but even so, those first two pieces--loosely a hundred pages, and more poetry than makes up many contemporary collections--are more than worth the time/effort of searching out this little-known book.… (altro)