Turner Cassity (1929-2009). Courtesy the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Turner Cassity (January 12, 1929 - July 26, 2009) was an American poet, playwright, and short story writer.
Life[]
Cassity was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the son of Dorothy and Allen Cassity. He grew up in Jackson and Forest, Mississippi.
He graduated from Millsaps College and Stanford University with a master's degree.[1]
From 1952 to 1954, he was drafted and stationed in Puerto Rico. He attended Columbia University on the GI Bill, and received a master's degree in library science in 1955 and then moved to South Africa. He worked at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, from 1962 to 1991,[2] and also taught poetry there.
He also cofounded the Callanwolde Readings Program, which highlights poets and writers, with poet Michael Mott.
He died in Atlanta, Georgia, and is buried in Forest.[3] His papers are at Emory University.[4]
Writing[]
Cynthia Haven, Stanford Magazine: "Devils & Islands, Cassity’s 10th collection, reinforces the image of the dapper Southerner as a satirist, and, in the words of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia, ’73, MBA ’77, perhaps 'the most brilliantly eccentric poet in America.'[5]
Recognition[]
- Georgia Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association.
- Levinson Prize for Poetry, for Devils and Islands
- Michael Braude Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
- National Endowment for the Arts grant.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Watchboy, What of the Night? Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
- The Airship Boys in Africa: A dramatic narrative in twelve parts. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970; Atlanta, GA: Hendricks, 1984 ISBN 978-0-943764-01-6
- Steeplejacks in Babel. Boston: Godine, 1973. ISBN 978-0-87923-070-8
- Yellow for Peril, Black for Beautiful: Poems and a play. New York: Braziller, 1975. ISBN 978-0-8076-0775-6
- Two are Four. Binghampton, NY: Bellevue Press, 1977.
- The Defense of the Sugar Islands: A recruiting poster. Los Angeles, CA: Symposium Press| year=1979.
- Phaëthon: Unter den Linden. Binghampton, NY: Iris Press, 1979.
- Keys to Mayerling. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1983. ISBN 978-0-941150-14-9
- Hurricane Lamp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-226-09615-5
- Lessons. Para Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-941150-57-6
- To the Lost City; or, The sins of Nineveh. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1989. ISBN 978-0-941150-74-3
- An Attempt to Explain Anorexia Nervosa to Lillian Russell. . Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1989.
- Middle Age in a Mercedes Benz. . Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1990.
- Between the Chains. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-226-09617-9
- Waiting to Go Under. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1998.
- The Destructive Element: New and selected poems. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8214-1221-3
- No Second Eden: Poems. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8040-1050-4
- Devils & Islands: Poems. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8040-1102-0
- Under Two Flags: Echoes of the Foreign Legion. Louisville, KY: Scienter Press, 2009.
Plays[]
- Silver Out of Shanghai. Atlanta, GA: Mongo Press, 1973.
- The Book of Alna: A narrative of the Mormon years. . Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1985,
Edited[]
- The Golden Calf: An anthology of money (edited with Mary Ellen Templeton). Edgewood, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1995.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ http://www.ajc.com/news/turner-113585.html
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1137
- ↑ http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1254
- ↑ http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Guides/rg-literature-american.html
- ↑ CYNTHIA HAVEN. "A Poet Fond of Stumps". Stanford Magazine. http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/marapr/show/cassity.html.
- ↑ Search results = au:Turner Cassity, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Crystal but not crystal ball". The New Criterion. November 2006. http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Crystal-but-not-crystal-ball-2519.
- Turner Cassity 1929-2009 at the Poetry Foundation
- Prose
- "Hapax: A Book Review". Cortland Review. May 2007. http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/35/cassity_r.html. Review of Hapax by A.A. Stallings.
- Herbert A. Leibowitz, ed (1994). "Double Dutch". Parnassus: Twenty years of poetry in review. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06577-6. http://books.google.com/?id=hydg0bdWd2cC&pg=PA191&dq=Turner+Cassity#v=onepage&q=Turner%20Cassity. - review of The Strength of Fields by James Dickey
- Audio / video
- "Turner Cassity Reads at the Huntington Library, April 12, 2003 (video)". Able Muse, Tribute Issue. December 2009. http://www.ablemuse.com/v8/poetry/turner-cassity/turner-cassity-poetry-reading-video.
- Books
- Turner Cassity at Amazon.com
- About
- "Turner Cassity". Able Muse, Tribute Issue. December 2009. http://www.ablemuse.com/v8/bio/turner-cassity.
- "Turner Cassity Tribute (Guest Features Editor - Suzanne J. Doyle)", Able Muse, December, 2009
- "Remembering Turner Cassity (by David Yezzi)", Best American Poetry, August 13, 2009
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