B. H. Fairchild
Auteur de Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems
A propos de l'auteur
B. H. Fairchild, the author of several acclaimed poetry collections, is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and teaches in the creative writing-PhD program at the University of North Texas.
Crédit image: © Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Œuvres de B. H. Fairchild
The System of Which the Body is One Part 2 exemplaires
Flight 1 exemplaire
C & W Machine Works 1 exemplaire
Belleza = Beauty 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Fairchild, Bertram Harry
- Date de naissance
- 1942-10-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Claremont, California, USA
- Études
- University of Kansas (BA|1964)
University of Kansas (MA|1968)
University of Tulsa (PhD|1975) - Professions
- professor
poet - Organisations
- California State University, San Bernardino
Claremont Graduate University
University of North Texas - Prix et distinctions
- National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship in Poetry (1988 ∙ 2005)
MacDowell Arts Colony fellowships (1997 ∙ 1999)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)
Rockefeller Fellowship (2000)
The Frost Place, poet in residence (2001)
Aiken Taylor Award (2005) (tout afficher 14)
Gold Medal in Poetry, California Book Awards (2005)
Lannan Foundation Residency in Marfa, Texas (2005)
University of Kansas Distinguished Achievement Award (2007)
Pushcart Prize in Poetry for "Frieda Pushnik" (2009)
Best of the Net Award for "The Student Assistant" (2010)
Pushcart Prize in the Essay for "Logophilia" (2011)
AWP Anniversary Award
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers Conference
Membres
Critiques
Belleza = Beauty par B. H. Fairchild
Ejemplar 4 de 30
There were some gems in here, don’t get me wrong (the title poem The Blue Buick is masterful), but if I read one more poem about lathes, I was going to toss this over the ridge. I get it, you are a mid-western, blue-eyed, blue collar bloke who has cashed in on all that HARD WORK to sit on his ass and write poems now. Good for you. It was like a Bob Seger album without the benefit of a band.
This 2003 offering from crusty Texan B. H. Fairchild goes straight to the top shelf of contemporary American verse. Fairchild's voice effortlessly combines the lyrical with the gritty, marrying a Westerner's laconic fatalism to the inchoate yearnings of the true romantic. Lonesome plains, deserted roads, tall tales, cars, jazz, baseball, liquor, sex…Early Occult is a fever dream of a lost America, the one that fell between the armrests of a beer-stained movie theater in Topeka, Kansas circa 1953, just before the fall.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 362
- Popularité
- #66,319
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 17
- Favoris
- 3
