E. D. Blodgett
Edward Dickinson Blodgett (26 February 1935) is a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translator[1] who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta.[1]
In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for 'Transfiguration (1998) , a translation of Blodgett's poetry.
On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.
Poetry
- Take away the names (1975)
- Sounding (1977)
- Beast Gate (1980)
- Arché/Elegies (1983)
- Musical Offering (1986)
- Da Capo (1990)
- Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
- Apostrophes II: through you I (1998)
- Transfiguration (1998) translation by Jacques Brault
- Apostrophes III: Alone Upon the Earth (1999)
- Apostrophes IV: speaking you is holiness (2000)
- Ark of Koans (2003)
- Apostrophes V: never born except within the other (2003)
- Apostrophes VI: open the grass (2004)
- Elegy (2005)
- In the heart of the wood (2005)
- Practices of eternity (2005)
Literary Criticism and Translations
- Configuration. Essays in the Canadian Literatures (1982)
- D. G. Jones and his Works (1984)
- The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana (1987) with Roy Arthur Swanson
- Alice Munro (1988)
- Romance of Flamenca (1995)
- Five Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada (2005)
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