Richard Joseph Howard (born October 13, 1929, adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz ) is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches. He lives in New York City.
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After reading the French letter at the Sorbonne in 1952-53, Howard had a brief early career as a lexicographer. He immediately turned his attention to poetry and poetic criticism, and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his 1969 Untitled Subjects collection, which took his subject to imagine the dramatic letters and monologues of 19th century historical figures. For most of his career, Howard has written poetry using quantitative verse techniques.
A prolific literary critic, the monumental Howard 1969 volume Alone With America stretched to 594 pages and profiled 41 American poets who have published at least two books each and "have become characteristic and - as I see it - contains identities since time, say, from the Korean War. "Howard will then tell an interviewer" I wrote the book not to feel history, but for myself, knowing that a relationship with a person's moment is very important to go beyond that moment. I quote to Shaw in the introduction to the book, if you do not believe in the greatness of your times and your own inheritance, you will fall into the confusion of mind and spirit controversy.The book is the anatomy of saving such beliefs, the construction of a credentials - articles of faith, or at least awards. "
He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize in 1976 for his translation of E. M. Cioran A Short History of Decay and the National Book Award for his 1983 translation of Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal. Howard is an old poetry editor of The Paris Review . He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy of Arts and Letters Literary Award and the MacArthur Fellowship. In 1985, Howard received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. As a former Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, he is Professor of Practice in writing programs at Columbia School of the Arts. He was formerly Professor of the University of English at the University of Houston and, earlier, Ropes Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. He served as Poet Poet from the State of New York from 1993 to 1995.
In 1982, Howard was named Chevalier of L'Ordre National du MÃÆ' Â © rite by the French government.
In 2016, he received the Philolexian Society Award for Distinguished Literature Achievement.
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Personal life
Apparently born of a poor Jewish parents, Howard (whose last name is unknown) was adopted as a baby by Emma Joseph and Harry Orwitz, a middle-class couple of Cleveland, who was also Jewish; her mother changed their last name to "Howard" when she was a baby, after she divorced Orwitz. Howard never met his biological parents, or his sister, who was adopted by other local families. Howard is gay, a fact that often appears in his more recent work. He has been out to some degree at least since the 1960s, when he told WH Auden's friends that he was offended by fellow poets using Jewish and gay nicknames, "because [both of these]," answered Auden, "My dear, I do not never knew you were a Jew! "
Howard kept on his bed in the corner of his apartment in New York City, a large gorilla called "Mildred."
Working
Poetry
- Amount (1962)
- Damage (1967)
- Untitled Subject (1969)
- Findings (1971)
- Two Parts of the Discovery (1974)
- Feelingsman (1976)
- Misgivings (1979)
- Lining Up (1984)
- No Travelers (1989)
- Selected Poems (1991)
- Like Most Revelations (1994)
- Trappings (1999)
- Talking Cures (2002)
- Miracle Errors (2003)
- Inner Voice (poetry selected), 2004
- Silent Treatment (2005)
- Without Saying (2008)
- Progressive Education (2014)
Essential essays
- Myself With America: Essay on Poetry Arts in the United States Since 1950 (1969)
- Preferences: 51 American Poets Choosing Poetry From Their Own Work and From the Past (1974)
- Traveling Henry James (essay) (1994)
- Paper Trail: Selected Projects 1965-2003 (2004)
Reference
External links
- biography of Richard Howard at poets.org
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J. D. McClatchy (Spring 2004). "Richard Howard, The Art of Poem No. 86". The Paris Review .
- "Just Different" poem on Guernica
- The poem "Richard, What is Sound?" at The Poetry Foundation
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