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The Beauty of the Husband won Carson the T. S. Eliot Prize on her third consecutive nomination in 2001, [5] making her the first woman to be awarded this honour. [6] That same year, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, [7] and the Quebec Writers' Federation Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. [8]
Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [2]
Many commentators have suggested that Sappho's use of Helen as an example in this poem is intended as a rejection of masculine in favour of feminine values. [23] For instance, John J. Winkler argues that the poem sets Sappho's definition of beauty against a masculine ideal of military power. [24]
2001: T. S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband [31] 2001: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry for The Beauty of the Husband [86] 2001: QWF Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry for The Beauty of the Husband [19] 2010: PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for An Oresteia [54] 2012: Criticos Prize (London Hellenic Prize) for Antigonick ...
The Beauty of the Husband, Decreation, Red Doc>, and Float [387] Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry Presented by the League of Canadian Poets: Every Exit is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep) Lecture presented as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series (2004) [388] The White Review Anthology Edited by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard: 2017
Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]
A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]
Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1897 – 1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.Gordon primarily published her work in the Quill Club, a Boston-based publication founded by her husband Eugene Gordon and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Helene Johnson and Dorothy West.