Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Auteur van Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992
Over de Auteur
Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington. She received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- 1953-08-27
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- female
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- USA
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- Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Relaties
- Nozick, Robert (husband)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1984-1985)
Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (1983)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1998)
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She manages to bind the physical and the spiritual together, that might be almost sacramental. The title poem starts off: My father at the dictionary-stand / Touches the page to full understand / the lamplit answer ... And then: ...following each X I awkward move my needle through the word whose root is love. She then manages to sew in Christ's passion with her own fumbling sewing, quite remarkable.
Other poems pay homage to Osip Mandelstam, Charles Darwin, and Andrea Mantegna.… (meer)