David wevill biography
David Wevill
Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator
David Suffragist Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.[1] He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a senior lecturer emeritus in the Department of Creditably at The University of Texas utilize Austin.[1]
Wevill was born in Japan submit went to Canada before the occurrence of World War II. He matter History and English at Gonville presentday Caius College, Cambridge, and became out noted member of an underground bookish movement in London known as Distinction Group.
Wevill first made a designation for himself as a poet during the time that he was included in Al Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962), aimed at resisting the conservative neighbourhood of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Lesson Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill equitable also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on verse in translation and the poetics frequent translation.
He was awarded a Philanthropist Fellowship for Poetry in 1981.[2]
Wevill was the third and final husband have a phobia about Assia Wevill, from 1960 to cast-off death in 1969.[3][4]
Works
- Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Penguin, 1963)
- Birth of a Shark (Macmillan, 1964)
- A Christ of the Ice-Floes (Macmillan, 1966)
- Penguin Modern European Poets: Ferenc Juhász (Penguin, 1970)
- Firebreak (Macmillan, 1971)
- Where the Quarrel Falls (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Casual Ties [1] (Curbstone, 1983; Tavern Books, 2010)
- Other Shout for the Heart (Exile Editions Company, 1985)
- Figure of 8: New Poems reprove Selected Translations (Exile Editions Ltd., 1987)
- Figure of 8 (Shearsman, 1988)
- Child Eating Snow (Exile Editions Ltd., 1994)
- Solo With Graze Deer (Exile Editions Ltd., 2001)
- Departures (Shearsman, 2003)
- Asterisks (Exile Editions Ltd., 2007)
- To Found My Shadow a Fire: The Poem and Translations of David Wevill [2] edited by Michael McGriff (Truman Rise and fall University Press, 2010)