Barbara Jordan (poet)
Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet.
Life
She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director.[1][2]
Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,[4] Harvard Review.
Awards
Works
- Tutelary poems. Radio Cologne.
- Channel. Beacon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8070-6809-0.
- Trace elements. Penguin Books. 1998.
Essays
- "Vision as Appetite: Clampitt as Naturalist". Antietam Review. xii. Spring 1992.
Reviews
Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:
"Consciousness as landscape, /
The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.[5]
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"
References
- ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V61N3/cn-acts.html
- ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/currents/V26/V26N5/story7.html
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=&submit.x=43&submit.y=5&submit=Submit&bylquery=barbara+jordan&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=
- ↑ DAVID YEZZI (June 1, 1999). "Trace Elements.(Review)". Poetry.
External links
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