1957 in poetry

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Contents

Events

  • Howl obscenity trial in San Francisco brings significant attention to beat poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg
  • This year, Ginsberg surprised the literary world by abandoning San Francisco. After a spell in Morocco, he and Peter Orlovsky moved to Paris at the suggestion of Gregory Corso, who introduced them to a shabby lodging house above a bar at 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur, where they were soon joined by William S. Burroughs and others, including young painters, writers and black Jazz musicians. The building became known as the Beat Hotel. The writers' time there became a productive, creative period for many of them. There, Ginsberg finished his poem "Kaddish", Corso composed "Bomb" and "Marriage", and Burroughs (with Ginsberg and Corso's help) put together "Naked Lunch", from previous writings. Corso returned to New York in 1958. The "hotel" closed in 1963. Ginsberg and Orlovsky left for travels to India in 1967.
  • Shi'r ("Poetry") magazine is founded in Beirut by Syrian-born poets Yusuf al-Khal and Ali Ahmad Said (a.k.a. Adonis)[1] The journal is a showcase for experimental Arabic poetry as well as translations of poetry from European languages.[2]
  • Black Mountain Review literary magazine folds.[3]

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada

India, in English

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound, the first guide to Pound's Cantos
  • William Carlos Williams, The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirwall
  • William Butler Yeats, Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats, edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, New York: Macmillan (posthumous)[21]

Other in English

  • D. Stewart and N. Keesing, editors, Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times, anthology (Australia)[22]

Works in other languages

Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

French language

Canada, in French

  • Claude Fournier, Le Ciel fermé
  • Pierre Trotier, Poèmes de Russie
  • Reginald Boisvert, Le Temps de vivre
  • Maurice Beaulieu, À glaise fendre
  • Jean-Guy Pilon, L'homme et le jour, Montréal: l'Hexagone[23]
  • Rina Lasnier, Présence de l'absence

France

Germany

  • Peter Gan, Schachbrett
  • Margot Scharpenberg, Gefährliche Uebung
  • Benno von Weise, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik: Form und Geschichte. Interpretationen ("German poetry: Form and history. Interpretations"), two volumes, Düsseldorf (criticism)[28]

Hebrew

  • N. Alterman, Ir ha-Yona ("City of the Dove")
  • Moses ibn Ezra, Shirai ha-Kodesh le-Moshe Ibn Ezra ("The Sacred Poems of Moses Ibn Ezra"), edited by Simon Bernstein, the first comprehensive collection
  • Ephraim Lisitzky, Negohot ma-Arafel ("Light through the Mist")
  • Yaakov Schteinberg, Kol Kitvai Yaakov Schteinberg ("Complete Works")
  • A. Zeitlin, Ben ha-Esh ve-Hayesha ("Between Fire and Redemption")

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Portuguese language

Portugal

Brazil

Spanish language

Chile

Latin America

  • Jacinto Cordero Espinosa, Despojamiento
  • Amado Nervo:
    • complete poetic works, publisher: Aguilar
    • Pensamientos, publisher: Barcelona
  • Octavio Paz, Piedra de sol, Mexico
  • César Vallejo, collected poems, posthumously published; Peru

Spain

  • V. Aleixandre, Mis poemas mejores (1956)
  • Gabriel Celaya, De claro en claro
  • R. Montesino, La soledad y los días
  • R. Pombo, Poesías completas
  • María C. Lacaci, Humana voz (winner of the 1956 Adonaïs Prize)
  • J. Guillén, "Lugar de Lázaro" (fragment of Clamor)
  • J.R. Jiménez:
    • Libros en poesía
    • Tercera antología poética
Spanish anthologies
  • R. Menendez Pidal, editor, Espana y su historia
  • J.M. Blecua, Floresta lírica espanola

Yiddish

  • Yankev Glatshteyn, Fun mayn gantser mi ("Of All My Labor, Selected Poems, 1919-1956")
  • A. Leyeles, Baym fus fun barg ("At the Foot of the Mountain")
  • Khos Kliger, Peyzazhn fun Yisroel ("Israel Landscapes")

Other languages

Awards and honors

Canada

  • Governor General's Awards: Robert A.D. Ford, A Window on the North
  • President's Medal for a single poem: Jay Macpherson, The Fisherman — A Book of Riddles

United Kingdom

United States

Poetry Magazine awards

Poetry Society of America awards

Other

  • Fastenrath Prize (Spain) for the best poetry published in the past four years: J. García Nieto, La red

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Irwin, Robert (January 3, 2005). "An Arab Surrealist". The Nation: pp. 23–24, 37–38. 
  2. ^ Adam Shatz (July 13, 2002). "An Arab Poet Who Dares to Differ". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE7D71130F930A25754C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print. Retrieved April 23, 2008. 
  3. ^ Everett, Nicholas. "Robert Creeley's Life and Career". Modern American Poetry. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm. Retrieved May 1, 2008. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f Gustafson, Ralph (1967). The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse (revised ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books. 
  5. ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
  6. ^ "Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
  7. ^ "F.R. Scott: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  8. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors (1993). English "Anthologies". "Canadian Poetry". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press and MJF Books): 164. 
  9. ^ a b Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1970). The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) (2006 reprint ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 313. ISBN 81-260-1196-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved August 6, 2010. 
  10. ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1970). The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) (2006 reprint ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 323. ISBN 81-260-1196-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved August 6, 2010. 
  11. ^ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, ed. (2003). A History of Indian literature in English. Columbia University Press. p. 250. ISBN 0-231-12810-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=OFvyBHXH-ssC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved July 18, 2010. 
  12. ^ Naik, M. K. (1984). Perspectives on Indian poetry in English. Abhinav Publications. p. 230. ISBN 0-391-03286-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=FcH2MUnlQjQC&printsec=frontcover#PRA1-PA230,M1. Retrieved June 12, 2009. 
  13. ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [[2008
  14. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
  15. ^ Web page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
  16. ^ a b c d Macha L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
  19. ^ a b c Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, ISBN 0-393-09357-3
  20. ^ Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009
  21. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Bibliographical Note", p. 130
  22. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
  23. ^ Web page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
  24. ^ a b c d Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
  25. ^ a b c Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
  26. ^ "Saint-John Perse" article, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved August 26, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
  27. ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
  28. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
  29. ^ a b c Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
  30. ^ Web page titled "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945/Gabriela Mistral/Bibliography", Nobel Prize website, retrieved September 22, 2010
  31. ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6
  32. ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

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