David gewanter biography
- Poet, editor, and essayist David Gewanter was.
- David Gewanter is an American poet.
- David Gewanter is an American poet.
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From Three at 4:43
And here comes my friend, limping on
his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shop
appears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping.
I work hard on it, bending there
until he speaks and walks on.
But as he is dead, his voice and step
make no sound.
In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies—all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the far right marries the far left, and the sacred is undone by the profane. Gewanter's ironic vision pulls together details from science, history, philosophy, the disappearing dailies, and the emotional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the move with tense rhythms, rich correspondences, and daring hairpin turns. War Bird gives the lie to the shining moral complacencies of the homefront. Unsettling yet radiant, this collection is a book for troubled times,
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Poetry
David Gewanter is author of three books of poetry: In the Belly (1997), The Sleep of Reason (2003), and War Bird (2009), all published by the University of Chicago Press; and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (2003). He earned a BA in Intellectual History from the University of Michigan, an MA and PhD in English at U.C. Berkeley, and then ran writing programs at Harvard. His work appears in Threepenny Review, Poetry, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, New England Review, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tikkun, Slate.com, Harvard Review, PoetryMagazine.com, Crossroads, Boston Globe, Semicerchio (Italy), PMLA, and elsewhere; and has been anthologized in Handbook of Heartbreak, The National Poetry Competition, Arvon (UK), Literature, The Bread Loaf Anthology, New Voices (Academy of American Poets), The Hell with Love, Beltway.com, and elsewhere. Book awards: the John C. Zacharis first book prize, Ploughshares (for In the Belly); finalist, James La
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David Gewanter
American poet
David Gewanter | |
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David Gewanter, was an American poet | |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry |
David Gewanter is an American poet.
Life
He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young, and son James.[1]
His work has appeared in Ploughshares.[2]
Awards
Works
Editor
Anthology
- Sarah Browning; Michele Elliott; Danny Rose, eds. (2003). DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology. The Argonne House Press. ISBN .
Ploughshares
Essay
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