Libby Scheier (1946-2000). Courtesy Canadian Poetry Online.
Libby Scheier (May 31, 1946 - November 14, 2000) was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
Life[]
Scheier was born in Brooklyn, New York City.[1]
Her debut collection of poetry, Songs of Youth, was published by the American Poetry Society when she was 16.[2]
She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College (B.A. 1968) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A., 1971). She moved to Toronto in 1975.[1]
In Canada, Scheier was a member of the Writers Union of Canada, PEN Canada and the League of Canadian Poets, and a human rights activist. She taught creative writing at York University and was a poetry editor for the Toronto Star. She founded the Toronto Writers' Workshop.[3]
Toronto's Now magazine has described her as "[a] woman with astonishing blue eyes, a penetrating intelligence and an imposing polemical style".[3]
She died of breast cancer.[3]
Family[]
Her only child, Jacob Scheier,[3] is also a poet.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Songs of Youth. Los Angeles, CA: American Poetry Press, 1962.
- 13 poems. New York: privately published, 1974.
- The Larger Life. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1983.
- Second Nature. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1986.
- Sky: A poem in four pieces. Mercury Press, 1990
- Kaddish for My Father: New and selected poems, 1970-1999. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
Fiction[]
- Saints and Runners. Stratford, ON: Mercury Press, 1993.
Anthologized[]
- Language in Her Eye: Writing and gender (views by Canadian women writing in English). Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
- Libby Scheier fonds, York University.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Libby Scheier: Biography, Canadian Poetry Online, University of Toronto Libraries. Web, June 5, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Search results = au:Libby Scheier, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 5, 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ellie Kirzner, Legacy: Libby Scheier 1946-2000," Now, November 30, 2000. Web, Feb. 6, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Libby Scheier at Canadian Poetry Online (profile & 6 poems)
- Books
- Libby Scheier at Amazon.com
- About
- "Legacy: Libby Scheier 1946-2000," Now Toronto
- My friend, Libby Scheier, by Robert Priest
- "Libby Scheier's 'seething inferno of words'," review of Kaddish for My Father
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