Ai (1) (1947–2010)
Forfatter af Vice: New and Selected Poems
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Ai was born Florence Anthony in Texas in 1947. She was of mixed racial heritage including Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, African-American, Irish, Southern Cheyenne and Comanche. She legally changed her name to Ai, which means love in Japanese. She received an MFA in creative writing from UC Irvine in vis mere 1971. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and 1985, and the National Book Award for her poetry collection Vice in 1999. Her other works include Cruelty, Killing Floor, and No Surrender. From 1999 until her death, she was a professor at Oklahoma State University. She died of natural causes on March 20, 2010 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Bidragyder — 89 eksemplarer
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
Intersecting Circles: The Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose (Bamboo Ridge, No. 76) (1999) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Manroot 8: Womanhood — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Andre navne
- Ogawa, Ai
Anthony, Florence - Fødselsdato
- 1947-10-21
- Dødsdag
- 2010-03-20
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Albany, Texas, USA
- Dødssted
- Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Arizona (BA - Oriental Studies)
University of California, Irvine (MFA) - Erhverv
- poet
antiques dealer
jewelry designer
professor - Organisationer
- Oklahoma State University
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Guggenheim fellow, 1975
Radcliffe Institute fellow, 1975
Massachusetts Arts and Humanities fellowship, 1976
Lamont poetry selection, Academy of American Poets, 1978
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1978, 1985
Ingram Merrill Award, 1983 (vis alle 9)
St Botolph Foundation grant, 1986
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1987, for Sin
National Book Award, Poetry, 1999 for Vice - Kort biografi
- Florence Anthony was born in 1947 in Albany, Tex., and reared mostly in Arizona by her mother and stepfather. For years her biological father’s identity was kept from her. She later learned, as she wrote in an autobiographical essay in the reference work Contemporary Poets, that “I am the child of a scandalous affair my mother had with a Japanese man she met at a streetcar stop.”
In 1969 Ms. Anthony received a bachelor’s degree in Oriental studies, with a concentration in Japanese, from the University of Arizona. She earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, in 1971. Her first collection of poems, “Cruelty,” was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973.
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Vice: New and Selected Poems af Ai
did not enjoy any of these poems in this book
A great bulk of Ai's narrative poems are expertly composed, each inhabiting the mind of one or another voice whose grievances and reflections hold quietly boiling commentaries on race, masculinity, womanhood, adolescence, sex, and death. Her first three collections demonstrate this in an exemplary fashion. The more specific character portraits of figures like James Dean and Jack Ruby that abound in the collections Fate and Greed make similar commentaries, but not in a way that is as visceral or nuanced as in earlier poems, though they are admirable and sometimes successful experiments. Later collections are more personal and reflective, and Vice contains some especially great moments. In hindsight, I'd probably choose that volume over this one, as it contains the best of her early work plus poems exclusive to that volume and omits the last two collections in this omnibus, which, aside from "The Cancer Chronicles" didn't hold my wonder as I had hoped they might.… (mere)
Read the intro essay and a few of the poems in the first collection . . . but am putting it aside for other, more pressingly compelling things. I'll get back to Ai in drips and drabs, probably as individual collections.
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