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Critic Dinah Birch suggests that Brodsky's " first volume of poetry in English, Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems (1973), shows that although his strength was a distinctive kind of dry, meditative soliloquy, he was immensely versatile and technically accomplished in a number of forms." [33]
Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her most notable novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
[4] Edmundson's 2007 essay, "Poetry Slam," [12] was also controversial and inspired a response from Ben Lerner, who told The Paris Review that "Poetry Slam" was the reason he wrote his 2016 book, The Hatred of Poetry. [13] Stephen Burt in the Boston Review defended "poets named by Edmundson" in the Harper's Magazine essay. [14]
Towards Democracy was heavily influenced by Whitman's poetry, as well as the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. [11] [25] Expanded editions of Towards Democracy appeared in 1885, 1892, and 1902; the complete edition of Towards Democracy was published in 1905. [25] In 1886–87 Carpenter was in a relationship with George Hukin, a razor grinder ...
His Collected Poems won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the early 1980s for the best collection of poetry published that year. [12] In 1982, the City College of New York, awarded him the Langston Hughes Medal. In 1984, the District of Columbia named him its first poet laureate, a position he held until his death from leukemia at the age of ...
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During the 1970s he was a central figure among African-American poets, encouraging interest in Africa as well as the practice of poetry as a performance art; he was well known for his readings in New York City jazz clubs. Kgositsile was one of the first to bridge the gap between African poetry and African-American poetry in the United States.