Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises Hayden Carruth

American poet and literary critic

Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse Academy.

Life [edit]

Hayden Carruth was built-in in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew upwardly in Woodbury, Connecticut.^[1] He graduated from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, New York with the class of 1939 as vice president of the senior class; he was credited with the "prettiest hair."^[2] He received his undergraduate caste from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Loma in 1943 and an Chiliad.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948.^[3] While institutionalized in White Plains, New York from 1953 to 1954, he befriended and subsequently mentored Gordon Lish throughout his adolescence. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years. From 1977 to 1988, he was the verse editor of Harper's Magazine.

After educational activity at Johnson State College (poet-in-residence; 1972–1974) and the University of Vermont (offshoot professor; 1975–1978), Carruth was a tenured professor of English at Syracuse University in the graduate creative writing program outset in 1979; in this capacity, he taught and mentored many younger poets (including Brooks Haxton and Allen Hoey) before taking emeritus status in 1991. He resided with his wife, boyfriend poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth, near the small central New York village of Munnsville. He wrote for over 60 years. Carruth died from complications following a serial of strokes.^{[4] [ citation needed ]}

Early life [edit]

Hayden Carruth was the son of Gorton Veeder Carruth a journalist and newspaper editor, and Margery Carruth. His interest in poesy started early due to his male parent.

Works [edit]

Carruth wrote more than xxx books of poesy, four books of literary criticism, essays, a novel and two verse anthologies. Prior to his affiliation with Harper's, he served equally editor-in-chief of Poesy (1949–1950) and as advisory editor of The Hudson Review for twenty years. He was awarded a Guggenheim and the NEA fellowships.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1992 he was awarded the National Volume Critics Circle Award for his Collected Shorter Poems and in 1996 the National Book Award in poetry for his Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey.^[5] Shortly later on the debut of Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, he likewise won the $fifty,000 Lannan Literary Honor. His later titles include the 2001 collection of poems Md Jazz and a 70-minute sound CD of him reading selections from Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey and Collected Shorter Poems. His Final Poems (Copper Canyon Printing, 2012) combines poems written toward the end of his life with the concluding poems from twenty-six of his previous volumes. Other awards with which he was honored included the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal and the Whiting Accolade.^{[ citation needed ] [6]}

Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resource, influenced past jazz and the blues, Carruth's poems are informed by his political radicalism and sense of cultural responsibility.^{[ commendation needed ]} Among his influences, Carruth particularly admired 18th century poet Alexander Pope, lauding "Pope's rationalism and pandeism with which he wrote the greatest mock-epic in English literature"^[7]

Many of Carruth'southward best-known poems are about the people and places of northern Vermont, as well as rural poverty and hardship, addressing loneliness, insanity, and expiry.^[4] One of his most celebrated poems is "Emergency Haying".^{[ citation needed ]}

Published works [edit]

• The Crow and the Heart (NY: The Macmillan Company, The Macmillan Poets, Paperback, 1959).
• The Norfolk Poems (Iowa Urban center, IA: Prairie Press, 1962)
• Appendix A (1963): a novel about adultery.
• Nothing for Tigers: Poems 1959–1964 (NY: The Macmillan Company, 1965)
• The Dirt Hill Anthology (Iowa City, IA: Prairie Printing, 1970)
• For You—Poems (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970)
• From Snow and Rock, from Chaos (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973)
• Dark World (Santa Cruz, Calif: Kayak, 1974)
• The Bloomingdale Papers (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, Contemporary Poetry Series, Paperback, 1974), Illustrations by Albert Christ-Janer
• Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969–1977 (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1978)
• The Sleeping Dazzler (1982)
• Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews (Athens, GA: The Academy of Georgia Press, 1982), Edited by Judith Weissman
• If You lot Call This Cry a Song (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1983)
• Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More than Selected Essays and Reviews (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1983)
• The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth (NY: Macmillan/Simon & Schuster, 1985), Foreword by Galway Kinnell
• Asphalt Georgics (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985)
• The Oldest Killed Lake in North America: Poems 1979–1981 (Grenada, MS: Salt-Works Press, Paperback, July 1985)
• Lighter Than Air Craft (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Academy/The Press of Appletree Alley, 1985)
• Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Dejection, & Related Topics (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, Hardcover, 1986)
• Sonnets (Lewisburg, PA: The Printing of Appletree Aisle, 1989), Illustrated by Barnard Taylor
• Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, October 1989)
• The Sleeping Dazzler (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Printing, 1990)
• Collected Shorter Poems: 1946–1991 (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Printing, 1992)
• Suicides and Jazzers (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Serial, 1992)
• Collected Longer Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994)
• Selected Essays & Reviews (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Coulee Press, 1996)
• Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991–1995 (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Printing, 1996) —winner of the National Book Award for Poesy^[5]
• Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays (1998)
• Beside the Shadblow Tree: A Memoir of James Laughlin (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Coulee Printing, 1999)
• Hayden Carruth: A Listener'due south Guide (audio CD) 2000
• Md Jazz (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Coulee Press, 2001)
• Letters to Jane (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Coulee Printing, 2004)
• Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Printing, 2006)
• A Vision of Now (The Sewanee Review), 2009) — published posthumously
• Last Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Printing, 2012)

Editor

• The Voice That Is Great within The states (1970): an influential anthology of American poetry.

References [edit]

1. ^ "The Academy of Chicago Magazine". magazine.uchicago.edu . Retrieved December 5, 2021.
2. ^ Pleasantville High School Class of 1939 Yearbook
3. ^ "Marquis Biographies Online". search.marquiswhoswho.com . Retrieved December five, 2021.
4. ^ ^{a b} Grimes, William (September 30, 2008). "Hayden Carruth, Poet and Critic, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
5. ^ ^{a b} "National Book Awards – 1996". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
   (With acceptance speech by Carruth and essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards sixty-year anniversary weblog.)
6. ^ Europa Publications (2003). "Carruth, Hayden". International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. p. 58. ISBN978-1-85743-178-0.
7. ^ Hayden Carruth (1992). Suicides and Jazzers. p. 161. ISBN0-472-09419-X.

External links [edit]

• Carruth's website
• Poems, Audio, and Biography for Hayden Carruth at Poets.org
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• "Lives of a Poet", commodity in University of Chicago Magazine, Apr 2005
• Works by Hayden Carruth at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Inventory of the Hayden Carruth Letters and Poem at the Newberry Library

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