1971 in poetry
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Overview of the events of 1971 in poetry
Aleksandr Tvardovsky , who died this year, was a Soviet poet who, as editor of Novy Mir Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Events
Winter — This United States by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
March – Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre , Simone de Beauvoir , Susan Sontag , Alberto Moravia , Carlos Fuentes , and Mario Vargas Llosa (who saya he continues to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales
April 8 – Release of Right On! , a film directed by Herbert Danska , of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets
April 21 – The 13th century Codex Regius Denmark to Iceland under naval escort.
July 2 – Release of The Canterbury Tales Pier Paulo Pasolini , providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Counter/measures magazine is founded in the United States by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns[ 1] New Formalism movement.
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Margaret Atwood , Power Politics bill bissett , Nobody Owns the Earth George Bowering , Touch: Selected Poems 1960–1970 Louis Dudek , Collected Poetry . Montréal: Delta Canada.[ 2] Northrop Frye , The Bush Garden (scholarship)[ 3] John Glassco , Selected Poems . Toronto: Oxford University Press .Bill Howell , The Red Fox Irving Layton , The Collected Poems of Irving Layton . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[ 4] Irving Layton, Nailpolish . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[ 4]
Kenneth Leslie , The Poems of Kenneth Leslie [ed. Sean Haldane.] Ladysmith, Quebec: Ladysmith Press.[ 5] Richard Lewis , editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by EskimosDorothy Livesay :
Plainsongs. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.Plainsongs Extended . Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.Disasters of the Sun . Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press.[ 6] Anne Marriott , Countries , Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.[ 7] George McWhirter , Catalan Poems (winner of the 1972 Commonwealth Poetry Prize )Alden Nowlan , Between Tears and Laughter Michael Ondaatje , editor, The Broken Ark , animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as A Book of Beasts , 1979 (anthology)[ 8] ISBN 0-88750-050-1 Andreas Schroeder , File of Uncertainties , a chapbook (Sono Nis Press)Raymond Souster , The Years .Ottawa: Oberon Press.[ 9] Phyllis Webb , Selected Poems 1954–65 Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes
Jayanta Mahapatra :
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra , Pomes / Poemes / Poemas ( Poetry in English ),[ 11] G. S. Sharat Chandra , April in Nanjangud ( Poetry in English ), London: London Magazine[ 12] Michael Chacko Daniels , Split into Two ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[ 12] Keki N. Daruwalla , Apparition in April ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[ 12] Amaresh Datta , Captive Moments ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India [ 12] Subhoranjan Das Gupta , Bodhisattva and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India .[ 12] Gopal R. Honnalgere , A Wad of Poems , Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India [ 12] Suniti Namjoshi :
Nolini Kanta Gupta , Collected Works , five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency[ 12] Subhas Chandra Saha , editor, Modern Indo-Anglian Love Poetry , anthology; Calcutta : Writers Workshop , India [ 14]
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Fleur Adcock , High Tide in the Garden , New Zealand native living in and published in the United KingdomGeorge Barker , Poems of Places and People Frances Bellerby , Selected Poems George Mackay Brown
Fishermen with Ploughs [ 17] Poems New and Selected Tony Connor , In the Happy Valley John Cotton , Old Movies Maureen Duffy , Love Child [ 17] Michael Ffinch , Voices Round a Star Veronica Forrest-Thomson , Language-Games Elaine Feinstein , The Magic Apple Tree , HutchinsonRobert Garioch , pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, The Big Music, and Other Poems [ 17] Thom Gunn , Moly , with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking itAdrian Henri , Autobiography [ 17] Geoffrey Hill , Mercian Hymns , prose poems[ 17] James Kirkup , The Body Servant [ 17] Paul Muldoon , Knowing My Place ,[ 17] Sylvia Plath , American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous):
Crossing the Water , published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961Winter Trees [ 17] Jeremy Robson , editor, The Young British Poets anthologyVernon Scannell , Selected Poems Jon Silkin , Amana Grass [ 17] Stephen Spender , The Generous Days [ 17] Donald Ward , The Dead Snake Patricia Whittaker (poet) , The Flying Men
United States
Dick Allen , Anon and Various Time Machine Poems Maya Angelou , Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Gwendolyn Brooks :
Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali The World of Gwendolyn Brooks Aloneness Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman , Memorial Day Ted Berrigan , Train Ride Paul Blackburn , The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries John Ciardi , Lives of X Cid Corman , Sun Rock Man (New Directions)Ed Dorn :
Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook , Athanor Books[ 18] By the Sound, Frontier Press ; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991[ 18] A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton , Tansy/Peg Leg Press[ 18] Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions)Robert Fitzgerald , Spring Shade , collected poems and translations, 1931–1970 (New Directions)Donald S. Fryer , Songs and Sonnets Atlantean Michael S. Harper , History Is Your Own Heartbeat , won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry[ 19] John Hollander , The Night Mirror Hugh Kenner , The Pound Era (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticismGalway Kinnell , The Book of Nightmares Stanley Kunitz , The Testing Tree James McMichael , Against the Falling Evil Carl Rakosi , Ere-Voice Adrienne Rich , The Will to Change Richard Shelton , The Tattooed Desert Charles Simic , Dismantling the Silence Clark Ashton Smith , Selected Poems Richard Wilbur , translator, The School for Wives Molière (in verse)James Wright , Collected Poems , including 30 new poems
Other in English
Kofi Awoonor , Night of My Blood , Ghana John Figueroa , editor, Caribbean Voices , anthology, Evans Brothers, Caribbean [ 20] Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali , Sounds of a Cowhide Drum , South Africa Geoff Page and Philip Roberts, Two Poets , St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Australia Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Australia :
Editor: Australian Poetry 1971 , anthology, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Where the Wind Came , Sydney: Angus and Robertson
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
France
Anne-Marie Albiach , Etat [ 22] M. Bataille , Le Cri dans le mur L. Bérimont , L'Évidence même Yves Bonnefoy , Traité du pianiste René Char :
L'Honneur devant Dieu Le nu perdu ("Nakedness Lost")[ 23] P. Damarix , L'Expérience magique Alain Delahaye , L'Eveil des traversees [ 22] Jean Follain , Éspaces d'instants , the poet was killed in an accident days after publicationRobert Marteau , Sibylles [ 22] Francis Ponge , La Fabrique du Pré [ 22] Jacques Roubaud , Octavio Paz , Charles Tomlinson and Edoardo Sanguineti , Renga [ 22]
Anthologies
Hebrew
Leah Goldberg , Shearit ha-Chaim I. Efros , Shirim D. Avidan , Shirim Hitzoniim Y. Amichai , Al Menat Lo Lizkor N. Yonatan , Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam D. Pagis , Gilgul R. Adi , Mishaa le-Shaa A. Eldon , Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved R. Shani , Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech M. Meir , ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim M. Oren , Adam Muad M. Megged , editor, Shirim Liriim E. Silberschlag , Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim R. Avinoam , be-Misholai R. Lee , El Parvarai ha-Shemesh
Hungary
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Other languages in India
K. Satchidanandan , Malayalam -language:
Anchu Sooryan , ("Five Suns")[ 26] Kurukshetram , ("Studies in Modern Poetry"); scholarship[ 27] Nirendranath Chakravarti , Ulongo Raja , Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali -language[ 28] Udaya Narayana Singh , Amrtasya Putraah , Calcutta: Lok Sahitya Parishad, Maithili -language[ 29] Vinod Kumar Shukla , Lagbhag Jai Hind , Sindhi: Ashok Vajpeyi ; Hindi -language[ 30]
Italy
Norway
Portuguese language
Brazil
Spanish language
Latin America
Delmira Agustini , Poesías completas , prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar , posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in Spain [ 33] Herberto Padilla , Por el momento Roberto Fernández Retamar , A quien pueda interesar José Lezama Lima , Poesía completa Ernesto Mejía Sánchez , Estelas/homenajes Carlos Solórzano , Las celdas Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario , Poesía joven de Panamá
M.L. Mendoza , Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres
Spain
Delmira Agustini , Poesías completas , prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar , posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in Spain [ 33] Vicente Aleixandre , Poesía superrealista Justo Jorge Padrón , Los oscuros fuegos José Angel Valente , Las palabras de la tribu José María Valverde , Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945–70
Sweden
Yiddish
Brakha Coodley , Not on Bread Alone Leo Kussman , Ballads of a Generation Berl Siegal , Poems for Children Mier Shtiker , Jewish Landscape , Volume 2M. M. Saffir , Creator of Various Dreams Menakhem Stern , Songs at Midnight Rochelle Weprinski , The Only Star Aaron Zeitlin , Poems of Destruction and Faith Joseph Kerler , Song Between Teeth Jacob Sternberg , The Circle of Years
Other
Simin Behbahani , Rastakhiz ("Resurrection"), Persia Paul Celan , Snow Part Schneepart ), GermanOdysseus Elytis , Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας ("The Sovereign Sun"), Greece Alan Llwyd , Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse"), Welsh F. Pratz, Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart , anthology, German [ 34]
Ndoc Gjetja , Rrezatim ("Radiation"), his first book of poetry; Albania [ 35] Seán Ó Ríordáin , Línte Liombó (Limbo Lines), Irish language in Ireland [ 36] Siegbert Prawer , editor, Seventeen Modern German Poets , anthology published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, poems in German [ 34] Hans Verhagen , Duizenden zonsondergangen ("Thousands of sunsets"), Netherlands
Awards and honors
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 – E. V. Knox (born 1881), English poet and satirist
May 9 – Ogden Nash , 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
March 7 – Stevie Smith , 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
March 9 – Jean Follain , French poet
March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), Japanese , late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident ; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
June 5 – Clifford Dyment (born 1914), British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist
June 6 – Edward Andrade (born 1887), English physicist and poet.
June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890), Japanese , poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature ; fervent Roman Catholic , co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso , of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
June 25 – Charles Vildrac , French poet and playwright
July 3 – Jim Morrison , 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
July 13 – R. A. K. Mason (born 1905), New Zealand
September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn , 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall , 72
September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) – Giorgos Seferis , Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
October 10 – J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901), New Zealand historian and poet
November 14 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助 (born 1882), Japanese linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
November 19 – Jacob Glatstein , 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
November 25 – Andrew Young (born 1885), Scottish -born poet and clergyman
December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 18 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky , 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir
See also
Notes
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^ "Louis Dudek: Publications Archived May 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p. 164.
^ a b "Irving Layton: Publications Archived July 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
^ Burris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo. "Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine ." Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, April 15, 2011.
^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996): Works" Archived September 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, March 18, 2011.
^ "Anne Marriott (1913–1997) Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 21, 2011.
^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008.
^ "Notes on Life and Works Archived August 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
^ a b Purnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim" , pp 184–185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives , edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9 , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010.
^ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English ISBN 0-231-12810-X , retrieved July 18, 2010.
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^ Rajyalakshmi, P. V., The Lyric Spring: The Poetic Achievement of Sarojini Naidu
^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Archived December 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008.^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008.^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
^ a b c Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008.
^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008.^ Breiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry ISBN 978-0-521-58712-9 , retrieved February 7, 2009.
^ Web page titled "Pierre Nepveu" Archived November 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010.
^ a b c d e Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets , New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
^ Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature , p 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 ISBN 0-674-61565-4 .
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