E.D. Blodgett

Edward Dickinson Blodgett (born February 26, 1935) is a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translator who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano.

Life
Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta.

Recognition
In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for 'Transfiguration'' (1998), a translation of Blodgett's poetry.

On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.

Poetry

 * Take away the names (1975)
 * Sounding (1977)
 * Beast Gate (1980)
 * Arché/Elegies ''(1983)
 * ''Musical Offering (1986)
 * Da Capo (1990)
 * Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
 * Apostrophes II: through you I (1998)
 * Transfiguration (1998) translation by Jacques Brault
 * Apostrophes III: Alone Upon the Earth (1999)
 * Apostrophes IV: speaking you is holiness (2000)
 * Ark of Koans (2003)
 * Apostrophes V: never born except within the other (2003)
 * Apostrophes VI: open the grass (2004)
 * Elegy (2005)
 * In the heart of the wood (2005)
 * Practices of eternity (2005)

Literary Criticism and Translations

 * Configuration. Essays in the Canadian Literatures (1982)
 * D.G. Jones and his Works (1984)
 * The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana (1987) with Roy Arthur Swanson
 * Alice Munro (1988)
 * Romance of Flamenca (1995)
 * Five Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada (2005)