David Mason (writer)
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David Mason (born 11 December 1954) is an American writer.
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[edit] Life
David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. He studied briefly at the Colorado College, but left after one year to work as a fisherman in Alaska. He returned to the college to earn his B.A. in 1978. Mason and then-wife, Jonna Heinrich, moved to Rochester, New York, where he worked as a gardener. They lived for just over a year in a village in Greece under a Fullbright Fellowship awarded to Mason, but returned to the United States when he was hired to write the screenplay for a film based on a novel he had written. In the end the film was cancelled when the production company closed its film division.
After a part-time teaching stint at Colorado College, he began studying at the University of Rochester under Anthony Hecht. His first marriage ended, and in 1988 he married photojournalist Anne Lennox. He received his doctorate from The University of Rochester and moved to Moorhead, Minnesota, where he taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead for ten years. In 1998, Mason returned to his alma mater, Colorado College, where he now co-directs the Creative Writing program. He and wife Lennox live in the mountains outside Colorado Springs, Colorado.
[edit] Work
David Mason’s collections of poems include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize) and The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award). He is coeditor of four major anthologies and has authored dozens of poems, essays, reviews, translations, stories and memoirs. An advisory editor at the Hudson Review, the Sewanee Review and Divide, Mason’s work can be found in such periodicals as Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, The New Criterion, Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, The Irish Times, and The Southern Review.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- "Ludlow." Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007.
- Arrivals. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2004.
- The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2000.
- The Country I Remember. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1996.
- The Buried Houses. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1991.
[edit] Edited
- Twentieth Century American Poetry. With Dana Gioia and Meg Schoerke. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. With Dana Gioia and Meg Schoerke. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry. With John Frederick Nims. New York: McGraw-Hill. 5th ed. 2005.
- Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. With Mark Jarman. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1996. Second printing 1998.
[edit] Essays
- "Close to Seferis." Hudson Review Spring 2004.
- "Anthony Hecht at Eighty." Weekly Standard October 27, 2003.
- "The Two Minds of a Western Poet." Divide Fall 2003.
- "Thomas McGrath." American Writers X. Jay Parini, ed. New York: Scribners, 2002.
- "Reading Greece." Hudson Review Autumn 2002.
- "Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, and the Wellsprings of Poetry." Sewanee Review Winter 2000.
[edit] Memoirs
- "The End of Immortality." Hudson Review Winter 2004.
- "In Katerina's Kitchen." Mondo Greco Spring 2003.
- "Letter from Turkey." Hudson Review Summer 2002.
- "Chatwin's Ashes." Mondo Greco Spring 1999.
- "The Lotos-Eaters." Hudson Review Fall 1998.
[edit] Poems
- "Fog Horns." Poetry September 2004.
- "The Bay of Writing." TLS July 30, 2004.
- "A Thorn in the Paw." Poetry January 2004.
- "Small Steps." Hudson Review Spring 2003.
- "Two Poems." Metre 11 Winter 2001-2002.
- "Three Poems." Metre 9 Spring 2001.
- "A Meaning Made of Trees." New Criterion March 1998.
- "Poems from Greece." Hudson Review Fall 1997.
- "Night Squall." New Criterion November 1996.
- "The Country I Remember: A Narrative." Hudson Review Summer 1995.
