Barbara Howes (May 1, 1914 - February 24, 1996) was an American poet.
Barbara Howes. Courtesy Dana Gioia.
Life[]
Youth and eduation[]
Howes was born in New York City.
She was adopted by a well-to-do Massachusetts family, and reared chiefly in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where she attended Beaver Country Day School.
She graduated from Bennington College in 1937.
Career[]
Howes worked briefly for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Mississippi, and then edited the literary magazine, Chimera,[1] from 1943 to 1947 and lived in Greenwich Village, New York.
In 1947 she married poet William Jay Smith, and they lived for a time in England and Italy. They had 2 sons, David Smith, and Gregory. They divorced in the mid-1960s, and she lived in Pownal, Vermont.[2]
In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.[3]
Her work was published in, Atlantic, Chicago Review, New Directions, New Republic, New Yorker,[4] New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Southern Review, University of Kansas Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review.
She died in Bennington, Vermont.
Writing[]
Dana Gioia: "Reading the Collected Poems, one sees Howes very clearly as a woman writing in one of the oddest but most important traditions of American poetry. Howes stands with Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and ultimately Emily Dickinson in a lineage of women writers passionately committed to the independence and singularity of the poetic imagination. (To this group one might also add Louise Bogan, Julia Randall, May Swenson, and Josephine Miles). They form an eccentric but eminent sorority."[5]
Recognition[]
Awards[]
- Golden Rose Award
- nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Undersea Farmer. Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1948.
- The Triumph of Love: Poems. New York: Caliban Press, 1953.
- In the Cold Country: Poems. New York: Bonacio & Saul / Grove Press, 1954.
- Light and Dark: Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0-8195-1001-3
- Looking Up at Leaves: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1966.
- The Blue Garden. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. ISBN 978-0-8195-2062-3
- A Private Signal: Poems new and selected. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-8195-5013-2
- Moving. New York: Elysian Press, 1983.
- Collected Poems, 1945-1990. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-55728-336-8
Short fiction[]
- Twenty-Three Modern Stories. New York: Vintage, 1963.
Edited[]
- From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
- The Sea-Green Horse: A collection of short stories (with Gregory Jay Smith). New York: Macmillan, 1970.
- The Eye of the Heart: Short stories from Latin America. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
- The Road Commissioner and Other Stories, illustrated by Gregory Smith, Stinehour Press, 1983.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=-QgQAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:Barbara+inauthor:Howes&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&pgis=1
- ↑ ERIC PACE (February 25, 1996). "Barbara Howes, Poet and Editor, Dies at 81". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/us/barbara-howes-poet-and-editor-dies-at-81.html.
- ↑ "School of the Arts". The New York Review of Books 15 (12). January 7, 1971. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10694.
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Barbara%20Howes%22
- ↑ Dana Gioia (1995). "A review of Collected Poems: 1945-1990, by Barbara Howes". The Dark Horse. http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ehowes.htm.
- ↑ Search results = au:Barbara Howes, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 1, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Barbara Howes at Amazon.com
- About
- "Barbara Howes poet and editor dies at 81", New York Times.
- "Barbara Howes and the Eminent Sorority by Dana Gioia.
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