Jack Marshall. Courtesy Coffee House Press.
| Jack Marshall | |
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1936 Brooklyn, United States |
Jack Marshall (born 1936) is an award-winning American poet and prose author.
Life[]
Youth[]
Marshall was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.[1] He grew up speaking Arabic in a Sephardic Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture.[2] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighbourhood.
He discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he attended night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[3] He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he is interested in.
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing up in a Jewish-Arabic family in midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever: Poems, proved very successful.
He lives in El Cerrito in the San Francisco Bay area, California.[4]
Recognition[]
Marshall was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn.[5] He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2008.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Darkest Continent: Poems. New York; For Now Press, 1967.
- Bearings: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
- Floats: A poem. Iowa City, IA: Cedar Creek Press, 1971.
- Bits of Thirst, and other poems and translations. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1976.
- Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise. Santa Cruz, CA: Jazz Press, 1984.
- Arabian Nights. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1986.
- Sesame. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1993.
- Millennium Fever: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1996.
- Chaos Comics. Santa Fe, NM: Pennywhistle Press, 1994.
- Gorgeous Chaos: New & selected poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2002.
- The Street Veil: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2008.
- Spiral Trace: A poem. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2013.
Non-fiction[]
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing up in a Jewish-Arabic family in midcentury America: A memoir. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-56689-174-5
Lunch Poems Jack Marshall
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Coming attractions for fall 2006: Page 2
- ↑ Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall
- ↑ 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup, Kathleen Maclay, UCBerkleyNews
- ↑ Jack Marshall, Poets & Writers. Web, July 25, 2018.
- ↑ What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall
- ↑ Search results = au:Jack Marshall, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 2, 2014.
External references[]
- Poems
- Jack Marshall b. 1936 at the Poetry Foundation
- Nine Poems + Commentary at Serving House journal
- Audio / video
- Lunch Poems, UCTV, 2006
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn
- Books
- Jack Marshall at Amazon.com
- About
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