James Scully (poet)
James Scully (born 1937 New Haven, CT) is an American poet.
Life
He spent 1973-1974 in Santiago de Chile, during the early Pinochet regime, which he documented in his poetry book, Santiago Poems.[1]
Over the years, his poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine.[2] He has read his poetry at many colleges and universities, as well as the Theater of Latin America and the U.S. Congress. He has written essays and plays as well as poetry, and during the early 1980s, he was general editor for Curbstone's ART ON THE LINE chapbook series.
He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut, and lives in San Francisco.[3]
California State University, Chico has named a poetry reading series for him.[4]
Awards
- Winner of the 1967 Lamont Award[5]
- recipient of a 1973 Guggenheim Fellowships.
- Quechua Peoples Poetry, Winner of the 1977 Islands & Continents Translation Award
- Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
Works
Poetry
- Donatello's Version. Curbstone Press. 2007. ISBN 9781931896313.
- Boxcars (2006);
- Words Without Music (2004)
- Raging Beauty: Selected Poems. Azul Editions. 1994. ISBN 9780963236371.
- Apollo Helmet. Curbstone Press. 1983. ISBN 9780915306398.
- May Day. Minnesota Review Press. 1980. ISBN 9780936484006.
- Santiago Poems Curbstone Press (1975) ISBN 978-0-915306-21-3
- Raging Beauty: Selected Poems. Azul Editions. 1994. ISBN 9780963236371.
- Scrap Book. Ziesing Brothers. 1977. ISBN 9780917488030.
- Avenue of the Americas. University of Massachusetts Press. 1971.
- Communications (with Grandin Conover, 1970)
- The Marches. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1967.
Translations
Essays
- Line Break:Poetry as Social Practice. Curbstone Press. 1988. ISBN 9781931896184.
- Modern Poetics, a.k.a. Modern Poets on Modern Poetry. McGraw-Hill. 1965.
References
External links
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