Jorie Graham

A crescut în Italia, Roma. A studiat filosofia la Sorbona. A publicat numeroase culegeri de poezie, printre care: "Never" (2002), "Swarm" (2000), "The Errancy" (1997) "The Dream of the Unified Field : Selected Poems 1974-1994 ", cu care a câștigat în 1996 Premiul Pulitzer pentru poezie. A primit multe alte premii și distincții, printre care John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship și Morton Dauwen Zabel Award de la Academia și Institutul American de artă și litere. Ultimul volum publicat : "Sea Change" Engleză Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The...

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René Depestre

René Depestre (born 29 August 1926) is a Haitian poet and communist. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry. The city of Jacmel, his birthplace, is often evoked in his poetry and his novels, in particular Hadriana In All My Dreams (1988). He did his primary studies with the Breton Brothers of Christian Instruction. His father died in 1936 and Rene Depestre left his mother, his two brothers and his two sisters to go live with his maternal grandmother. From 1940 to 1944, he completed his secondary studies at the Pétion college in Port-au-Prince. Étincelles (Sparks), his first collection of poetry, appeared in 1945, prefaced by Edris Saint-Amand. He was only nineteen years old when the work was published. The poems were influenced by the marvelous realism of Alejo Carpentier, who planned a conference on this subject in Haiti in 1942. Depestre created a weekly...

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American Beauty

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Raymond Carver

The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and lived in Port Angeles, Washington during his last ten, sober years until his death from cancer on August 2, 1988. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and was twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in 1985 Poetry magazine\'s Levinson Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in 1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. At least that\'s the basic biography. Of course there\'s no room in it for the nature of the hardship he and his family went through during most of those fifty...

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Sinclair Lewis

-primul american care a luat Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1885 - s-a născut Sinclair Lewis în Sauk Centre, Minnesota -părinții: Dr. Edwin J. Lewis și Emma Kermott Lewis -1891- mama sa moare -1892- tatăl se căsătorește cu Isabel Warner -1912 ,,Hike and Aeroplane” e publicat sub pseudonimul ,,Tom Graham” -1922 ,,Babbitt” -1926 – răsplătit cu premiul Pulitzer penru ,, Main Street” și ,,Babbitt”, pe care îl refuză; în acest an moare tatăl său -1927 ,,Elmer Gantry” -1929 ,,Dodsworth” -1930 – se naște fiul său, Michael. Obține Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1945 ,,Cass Timberlane” 1947 ,,Kingsblood Royal 1949 ,,The God-Seeker” -moare în 1951 la Roma.

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James Laughlin

Poet american și publicist, James Laughlin s-a născut in 1914 în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Personalitatea sa poetică s-a dezvoltat sub influența lui Ezra Pound și a lui William Carlos Williams. James Laughlin a publicat primele poezii în culegeri la editura pe care a fondat-o, "New Directions". Dintre operele sale, cităm: In Another Country (1979) Selected Poems (1986) The House of Light (1986) Tabellae" (1986) The Owl of Minerva (1987) Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988) Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992) Angelica" (1992) The Man in the Wall (1993) The Country Road (1995) The Secret Room (1997) A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998) Byways: A Memoir (2005) The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006). În 1992 a câștigat premiul "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters". Poet protestatar, stăpânit de dorința de a transforma lumea, James Laughlin a fost un solitar, trăind izolat la Connecticut. Lirica sa respiră o puternică sinceritate, curaj și fervoare,...

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice Walker\'s creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political revolution.

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Anthony McCann

Anthony McCann is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poetry, including Father of Noise, and Moongarden. He is also the author of Gentle Reader!, a book of erasures of the English Romantics, written with fellow poets Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he teaches poetry at California Institute of the Arts and University of Southern California. He is also the acting Poet Laureate of Machine Project.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her memory. She is considered one of the most important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century.

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