Andrew Glaze

Andrew Glaze
Born (1920-04-21)April 21, 1920
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died February 7, 2016(2016-02-07) (aged 95)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Spouse Dorothy Elliott Shari, Adriana Keathley

Andrew Glaze (April 21, 1920 – February 7, 2016) was an American poet, playwright and novelist. Much of Glaze's poetry reflects his coming of age in the South, and his eventual return there. He also lived and wrote in New York City for 31 years. In New York City he became part of a circle of poets that included Oscar Williams,[1] Norman Rosten,[2] John Ciardi[3][4] and William Packard.[5]

Personal history

Andrew Louis Glaze was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Mildred Ezell Glaze and Dr. Andrew Louis Glaze M.D., a dermatologist.[6][7] He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama with a younger sister and brother,[6] and he graduated from Ramsay High School. He has been called both Andrew L. Glaze III, and Junior. His grandfather, Andrew Lewis Glaze, was a Confederate doctor during the Civil War.[8][9] After graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Glaze went on to major in English at Harvard College.[10][11] Immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1942, Glaze enlisted in the United States Air Force to serve during World War II. He sailed to Europe on the RMS Queen Mary, which had been converted into a troop transport ship that could carry 15,000 men. “The American poet Andrew Glaze, then an Air Force lieutenant, stood on the foredeck and looked down on 'a quarter of a mile of human circles shooting craps'."[12] When the war was over, while waiting his turn to be shipped back home, he attended the University of Grenoble.[13] He died on February 7, 2016 in Birmingham, Alabama.[14]

Author

Glaze began to have success with his writing and between May 1950, and February 1956, Poetry magazine published seven of his poems. In 1951, Karl Shapiro, the editor of Poetry at the time, awarded him the magazine's Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize[6][15] At the same time, The New Yorker accepted one poem in 1950, and a second in 1955.[16] He also had a short fiction piece appear in the 1953 4th Edition of New World Writing,[17] and a poem in the 9th Edition in 1956.[18][19] By January 19, 1957, The Saturday Review had accepted and published a poem titled Suwanee River.[20]

In 1957, Glaze moved with wife and daughter to Greenwich Village in New York City. Glaze wrote a poem entitled As I walk mornings down Bleecker Street[21] (later retitled, "Alleluia"), and another poem, Village Parade, which appeared in his first book.[22] A son was born, but by 1961 the couple had divorced. The move to Manhattan, and subsequent divorce were later incorporated into Glaze's poem and book titled A City.[23] Glaze's ex-wife later became Dorothy Elliott Shari, and went on to join The Living Theatre, for a six-year tour of Europe.[24][25]

The move to New York may have been for many reasons, but it was hastened by a fear of reprisal for articles that Glaze had written as a reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald. This was the dawn of the Civil rights movement, when racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were an everyday part of life in Birmingham. Glaze had testified against a deputy sheriff in defence of two black men. He also wrote about police brutality against demonstrators.[6][26]

In 1962, Glaze married his second wife, dancer and actress, Adriana Keathley.[6] At the time they met, she was in the original Broadway cast of Camelot. She later danced in the original cast of Michael Bennett's Broadway show Ballroom.[27] In Andrew Glaze's Greatest Hits 1964-2004, Glaze notes that his poem Night Walk to a Country Theater (originally in the The New Yorker) was written on a visit to Connecticut where his wife was performing.[16] The couple settled into an apartment on the West side of Manhattan, and for many years Glaze bicycled across town to the British Tourist Authority office on 5th Avenue and 54th Street, where he worked as a Press Officer, writing travel stories.[28][29][30] His morning bicycle journey to work, heading East along 54th Street, inspired the poem Reality Street which was published in the magazine The Atlantic. The evening trip home, going West on 53rd Street, resulted in the matching poem Fantasy Street, which appeared in The New Yorker.[16] Glaze referred to them as “Two Odes, after the fashion of Milton's L'Allego and Il Penseroso”.[31] In 1978, Glaze did a reading and interview on WNYC radio, and stated that before The New Yorker published Fantasy Street, they sent a fact checker out to follow the entire route of the poem and check every location mentioned in it for accuracy.[32] That same year, the reviewer in New York Times described Glaze's poetry as "wonderful company. I would like to just quote and quote." [33]

Glaze's first poetry book, Damned Ugly Children was published in 1966. The book was well received in a review in The New York Times by Richard Eberhart, “...Glaze's poems are refreshing in the intellectual health they show … He possesses a true richness of psychic perception”.[34][35] That same year the American Library Association named the book, “One of the most notable books of 1966”.[36] On the wave of this acclaim, Glaze was invited to participate in the 1967 Morris Gray Lecture Series at Harvard, and to sign their historic Morris Gray Lecture Signature Book.[37] A few months later, in June 1968, Robert Mazzocco reviewed the book, together with one by poet Robert Bly, in The New York Review of Books. The header for the dual review was "Jeremiads at Half-Mast".[38] The following summer of 1969, Glaze returned to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, this time as a guest faculty member.

In 1974, with the assistance of producer Joseph Papp,[39] Glaze had a play, Kleinhoff Demonstrates tonight,[40] produced at the Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis. Seven theatre groups performed the play between 1971—1988, and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival did a production with the rock star, Meat Loaf, in a leading role.[41][42][43] A second play, The Man-Tree, had a staged reading in 1974 by Joseph Papp's The Public Theater.[44] Two years later, The American Repertory Company of London, performed Glaze's play The Man-Tree in London.[45][46]

Glaze's book I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse appeared in 1981 and was published and chosen by Library Journal as one of the best small press titles of that year.[6] In the title poem, Glaze describes a busy Southern courthouse of the 1950s; and compares the Prosecutor to a bull frog on a lillypad, addressing a pond of "obedient" followers who wait for a signal "to sing".

Two of his plays were produced in 1983, Love is Nothing to Laugh At and Uneasy Lies. The latter was reviewed in the New York Post by William Raidy.[47][48]

Between 1988–2002, Glaze prepared four new books of poetry for publication.[6] The first to be published, in 1991, was Reality Street. In 1997, the second, a collection of Glaze's poems titled Carnal Blessings was a finalist for the T.S. Eliot poetry prize.[49] A third book of poems went to print in 1998 with the title, Someone Will Go On Owing, selected poems, 1966-1992, and won the SIBA Award.[50][51]

In 2002, the fourth book, Remembering Thunder was released, after which Glaze and his wife moved to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. This time Maxine Kumin commented, “His original and unsettling voice makes these poems a real triumph”.[52] Once he'd resettled in Birmingham, Glaze continued to write, and in 2004 his book Andrew Glaze: Greatest Hits 1964–2004 was published.

In 2012 the Alabama Writers' Conclave announced Glaze's appointment as the 11th Poet Laureate of Alabama, beginning in 2013.[53] On November 5, 2012, he was officially commissioned by the Governor of Alabama in a ceremony at the State Capitol building in Montgomery.

On June 8, 2015, Glaze was an inaugural inductee into the Alabama Writer's Hall of Fame, along with Helen Keller, Harper Lee, and nine other writers with roots in Alabama.[54]

In August 2015, his ninth book of poetry, a collection of previously unpublished poems titled Overheard in a Drugstore and other poems was released by NewSouth Books.

Works

Poetry books

Poetry booklets

Artisan oversized folio

Recordings, audio tape, videotape

Interviews with, quotes from, and discussions of, Andrew Glaze

Play productions and readings

References

  1. ↑ "Williams, Oscar mss., 1920-1966". Index to Correspondents "Glaze, Andrew", Index to Photographs "Glaze, Andrew" and "Glaze, Adriana". Lilly Library Manuscript Collection at Indiana University. 1959–1968. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ Doreski 1985, p. 73, interview with Steven Ford-Brown
  3. ↑ Doreski 1985, p. 8, introduction by William Doreski
  4. 1 2 Cifelli 1997, p. 531 "Interviews", Andrew Glaze 4/1/92
  5. ↑ Packard, William (1994). Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosady and Poetic Devices. Montgomery, Alabama: Harper Collins. p. Xiii, Preface=Paragraph 13 "Helen Adam was a constant source of friendship and encouragement, as were ...Andrew Glaze, Stephen Stepanchev,...". ISBN 0-06-016130-2.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Haddin, Theodore (October 5, 2008). "Andrew Glaze". University of Auburn. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Birmingham Dermatological Society". Archives of Dermatology. American Medical Association Dermatological Archives. June 1930. Retrieved July 26, 2010. Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(6):1049., volume 21 no.6
  8. ↑ Glaze M.D.; Andrew L. (n.d.). "Biographic appendix, Giles County, Tennessee". Rootsweb, Ancestry.com. Retrieved May 8, 2011. paragraph #30
  9. ↑ Glaze, Andrew L. (n.d.). "Giles County, 11th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, 6th (1st) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment". Rootsweb, Ancestry.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010. Section heading ”Some Giles Countians who served in this regiment:”
  10. ↑ "Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA) – Class of 1942". Harvard University. Retrieved April 29, 2011. page 100 of 320
  11. ↑ "The Harvard Crimson- Leverett, Robert Frost Guest of Honor". The Harvard Crimson. March 24, 1936. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  12. ↑ Bocca, Geoffrey (June–July 1979). "When Does This Place Get To New York? The Queen Mary in Peace and War". Magazine Article Archives. American Heritage Magazine. p. 4. Retrieved July 26, 2010. Volume 30, Issue 4, paragraph 18
  13. ↑ "AlabamaBound". Birmingham Public Library. 14 March 2003. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Alabama poet laureate Andrew Glaze dead at 95". AL.com. Archived from the original on February 9, 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  15. ↑ "Poetry Magazine". The Poetry Foundation. 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  16. 1 2 3 "The New Yorker". Conde Nast. August 26, 1950 – January 25, 1982. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  17. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1953). New World Writing: fourth mentor selection MS96. a fictional short story. New York, New York: New American Library of World Literature, Inc. pp. 55–66.
  18. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1956). New World Writing: ninth mentor selection MD170. a poem. New York, New York: New American Library of World Literature, Inc.
  19. ↑ Andrea Benefiel; Jennifer Meehan (2010). "Guide to the New World Writing Records". Yale University Library Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale Collection of American Literature. Retrieved October 11, 2011. Collection Contents Series I. Correspondence, New World Writing records YCAL MSS 388 - Page 11, Box 7, Folder 176, Glaze, Andrew (Issues #4 and #9) circa 1953-1956
  20. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (January 19, 1957). "Suwanee River". The Saturday Review. p. 44. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  21. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (June 30, 2010). "Poems and related papers". Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard. Retrieved July 28, 2010. call no. MS Am 1822
  22. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1966). Damned Ugly Children. New York, New York -LOC number #66-24829: Trident Press (Simon & Schuster). p. 17.
  23. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1998). Someone Will Go On Owing selected poems, 1966-1992. Montgomery, Alabama: Black Belt Press. ISBN 1-881320-91-X. pages 131—139, “A City”
  24. ↑ "Obituary for Dorothy E. Shari". New York Times. June 30, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  25. ↑ Beck, Julian (1969). "Paradise Now: Notes, the Living Theatre". The Drama Review. 13: 90–107. JSTOR 1144460.
  26. ↑ Dorsey, Mignette Y. Patrick (October 2010). Speak Truth to Power: The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 26, 66, 120, 121, 127. ISBN 978-0-8173-5556-2. Retrieved October 23, 2011. Andrew Glaze Jr., "Chief Reclaims Badges - Two 'beating case' Policemen Fired
  27. ↑ "Adriana Keathley". The Broadway League. Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  28. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (June 15, 1970). "Sheriff Wants Robin Hood". St. Petersburg Times. p. 43. Retrieved July 26, 2010. Google News Archive Search
  29. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (June 20, 1982). "Hay: a Town, Bookstore, and Good Food source". Sarasota Herald Tribune. p. 33. Retrieved October 26, 2011. Google News Archive Search
  30. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (March 4, 1979). "Buxton Sets Summer Art Fete". Sarasota Herald Tribune. p. 62. Retrieved October 26, 2011. Google News Archive Search
  31. ↑ Doreski 1985, p. 75, interview with Steven Ford-Brown
  32. 1 2 "Andrew Glaze interview by Walter James Miller". WNYC Radio. June 2, 1978. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  33. ↑ Schjeldahl, Peter. Three Poets. The Week in Review. New York Times. 17 December 1978
  34. ↑ Eberhart, Richard (November 13, 1966). "Shock or Shut Up". The New York Times, archives. Retrieved April 30, 2011. a review of Damned Ugly Children, by Andrew Glaze
  35. ↑ Stuart T. Wright (1989). Richard Eberhart: a descriptive bibliography, 1921-1987 (literary criticism). Meckler. p. 321. ISBN 0-88736-346-6. Retrieved October 28, 2011. ("Shock or Shut Up." New York Times Book Review, 13, Nov. 1966, p. 6, review of Andrew Glaze, "Damned Ugly Children")
  36. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1963–65). Damned Ugly Children. USA: Trident Press (Simon & Schuster). LOC #66-24829 Dust Jacket Cover
  37. ↑ "Morris Grey Lectures: Signature Book". Poetry Harvard. p. 15. Retrieved July 26, 2010. Poetry at Harvard, Signature Date-April 19, 1967
  38. ↑ Mazzocco, Robert (June 20, 1968). "Jeremiads at Half-Mast". New York Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2011. Volume 10, number 12
  39. 1 2 "Joseph Pap and his connection to the Cricket Theater". MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) Archive, content=Interview with New York producer Joseph Pap about the Cricket Theater's new play "Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight." Pap also discusses finding an audience for new works. 7 December 1973. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  40. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1971). Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight. Googlebooks. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
  41. 1 2 3 Glaze, Andrew. "Finding Aid for Series III: Scripts, 1972-1992, Guide to the New York Shakespeare Festival Records. Series III: Scripts, 1972-1992". The New York Public Library, Collections, Archival. Retrieved October 12, 2011. collection number *T-Mss 1993-028 Series III, Sub-series 3-Other Scripts, Collection box number 3-30, folder 7, Shakespeare Festival Script #53, alphabetical listing under "Andrew Glaze"
  42. 1 2 "Everything That Rises". 1998 Turner Network Television, Inc. A Time Warner Company. 1998. Retrieved October 13, 2011. Fifth paragraph biography film credits for the actor "Meat Loaf" ("Meat Loaf starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of ..., Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight, ..."
  43. 1 2 "Focus". 2001 Paramount Classics. 2001. Retrieved October 12, 2011. Fourth paragraph biography film credits for the actor Michael Lee Aday (aka "Meat Loaf"), ("Michael Lee starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of ..., Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight, ..."
  44. 1 2 Glaze, Andrew (2008–2009). "Finding Aid for Series III: Scripts, 1972-1992 Guide to the New York Shakespeare Festival Records. Series III: Scripts, 1972-1992". New York Public Library, Collections, Archival. Retrieved October 5, 2011. Collection number *T-Mss 1993-028 Series III, collection box number 3-261, folder 9, alphabetical listing under M for "The Man-Tree"
  45. ↑ Doreski 1985, pp. 109–110, bibliography=Primary Works, section 3, Drama
  46. ↑ Ribalow, Meir (1985). Raindance: a comedy in two acts. (originally Samuel French Inc.). ISBN 0-573-61508-X. Retrieved October 13, 2011. 1st page Biography of Meir Ribalow, 2nd paragraph, “Between 1972-75, Mr. Ribalow was Joseph Papp's Production Associate at the New York Shakespeare Festival”, ...In 1976, he founded the American Repertory Company of London. …which presented British premieres of … playwrights including … Andrew Glaze.”
  47. ↑ Crown (1984). Willis, John A., ed. John Willis Theatre World 1982-1983. 39,. the University of Michigan: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-517-55270-4. digitized=December 21, 2006, "The action takes place today and in the past. (GENE FRANKEL THEATRE) Monday, March 7— 28. 1983 (12 performances and 14 previews). Southhill Productions presents: UNEASY LIES by Andrew Glaze; Director, Susann Brinkley."
  48. ↑ New York Magazine, Theatre Listing, Uneasy Lies. New York Magazine. 7 March 1983. p. 125. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
  49. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1997). "The T.S. Eliot Prize". Carnal Blessings. Truman State University Press. Archived from the original on September 2, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  50. ↑ Glaze, Andrew. "Authors Round the South, SIBA Winners, 1999 Winners". Someone Will Go On Owing. Archived from the original on July 11, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  51. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (1998). Someone Will Go On Owing selected poems, 1966-1992. Montgomery, Alabama: Black Belt Press. ISBN 1-881320-91-X. dust jacket back page, “…Two of my favorite poems are his, “Trash Dragon of Shensi” and “Fantasy Street" –Maxine Kumin.”
  52. ↑ Glaze, Andrew (2002). Remembering Thunder. Montgomery, Alabama: New South Books. ISBN 1-58838-077-7. back dust cover page
  53. ↑ Gray, Jeremy (July 24, 2012). "Former reporter, Pulitzer runner-up named poet Alabama laureate". The Birmingham News. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  54. ↑ "Alabama Writers' Forum : Hall of Fame : About". Writersforum.org. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  55. ↑ Doreski 1985, pp. 71–72, interview with Steven Ford-Brown
  56. ↑ Doreski 1985, p. 110, bibliography compiled by Steven Ford-Brown and William Doreski
  57. 1 2 3 4 5 Doreski 1985, pp. 107–112, bibliography compiled by Steven Steven Ford-Brown and William Doreski
  58. ↑ Flora, Joseph M., MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick, Taylor, Todd W. (2002). Companion To Southern Literature: themes, genres, places, people... Louisiana State University Press. p. 104. ISBN 0-8071-2692-6. Retrieved October 26, 2011. Birmingham Alabama
  59. ↑ Rodman, Selden. (1997). Geniuses and Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends. San Francisco, Ca: Green Tree Press. pp. 34, 35. ISBN 0-9645891-1-7. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
  60. ↑ Peters, Robert (1991). The Great American Poetry Bake-off, fourth series, Volume 4. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8108-2410-8.
  61. ↑ "Light Quarterly" (PDF). Light Quarterly. Summer 2005. p. 3. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  62. ↑ Packard, William (1994). The Poet's Dictionary: a handbook of prosody and poetic devices. Harper Perennial/Harper Collins. p. 218. ISBN 0-06-016130-2. Retrieved October 28, 2011. copyright credits
  63. ↑ "Interview with Andrew Glaze". Public Libraries of Birmingham/Jefferson County. Winter 2004. Retrieved October 25, 2011. Volume 14, Number 1, February, March, April 2004
  64. ↑ Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey. Speak Truth to Power: the story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer. University of Alabama Press. pp. 120–121. Retrieved October 21, 2011. citations for quotes from "Andrew Glaze Jr.", Birmingham Post-Herald article "On Order of Personnel Board--Two Policemen are Fired for Beating Negro Prisoner in Jail", and quotes on pages 10, 14, 20-21, 36, 61-62 from "Glaze, Andrew"
  65. ↑ "Whitman as Poetic Subject: Additional Citations". University of Iowa. Winter 1988. Retrieved October 25, 2011. Volume 5, Number 3
  66. ↑ "Changing Scene Theatre Records". The Denver Public Library Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Project. 2000. Retrieved October 13, 2011. Introduction, Container list, Series 2-Production List, Business Productions Box 9, scroll down to FF82 - November 17 – December 4, 1988 - Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight: program, cast list
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