JD McClatchy

Joseph Donald McClatchy, Jr. (born August 12, 1945 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania , † April 10, 2018 in New York City ) was an American poet , literary critic and university professor and since 1991 the editor of the Yale Review .

biography

McClatchy studied at Georgetown and Yale , where he received his Ph.D. reached.

McClatchy worked as a professor of English literature at Yale University . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters . His book Hazmat was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize . McClatchy edited the Voice of the Poet series for Random House Audio Books. He has also written texts for pieces of music, including eight opera libretti for composers such as William Schuman , Ned Rorem , Lorin Maazel , Bruce Saylor , Lowell Liebermann and Elliot Goldenthal .

McClatchy has received honors and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others . In 2000 he received the Connecticut Governor's Arts Award . From 1996 to 2003 he was Academy Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets . Together with the university professor Stephen Yenser , he administered the literary estate of James Merrill (1926–1995).

McClatchy died in April 2018 at the age of 72 from complications from cancer . His life partner was the graphic designer Chip Kidd .

Awards

• 1999: Lambda Literary Award for Ten Commandments in the gay men's poetry category
• 2003: Lambda Literary Award for Hazmat in the gay men's poetry category

bibliography

poetry

• Division of Spoils: Selected Poems (Arc, 2003)
• Hazmat, Alfred A. Knopf (Random House, 96 pages, April 2004)
• Ten Commandments (Random House, Inc., 120 pages, December 1999)
• The Rest of the Way (Knopf, 1992)
• Stars Principal (Macmillan, 1986)
• Scenes from Another Life (Braziller, 1981)

Literary criticism

• American Writers at Home , Photographs by Erica Lennard, Library of America, 240 pages, October 2004
• Twenty Questions , Columbia University Press, 200 pages, February 1998
• White Paper , (Columbia UP, 1989)

As an editor

• The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry , Random House, Inc, 654 pages, May 1996
• Christmas Poems , edited by John Hollander and JD McClatchy, Random House, Inc, cloth, 256 pages, October 1999
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings ( Library of America ), Library of America, 854 pages, August 2000
• Bright Pages: Yale Writers , 1701-2001, Yale University Press, 540 pages, April 2001
• Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems , Random House, Inc, 256 pages, May 2001
• Poems of the Sea , Random House, Inc, 256 pages, November 2001
• Collected Poems by James Merrill, edited by Stephen Yenser and JD McClatchy, Alfred A. Knopf: Random House, 912 pages, November 2002
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry , Second Edition, Vintage Books: Random House, 736 pages, April 2003
• Allen Ginsberg: The Voice of the Poet , Random House, Inc, March 2004
• Frank O'Hara: The Voice of the Poet , Random House, Inc., March 2004
• WH Auden: The Voice of the Poet , Random House, Inc., March 2004
• Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace, edited by JD McClatchy and Nicholas Jenkins, Princeton University Press, 320 pages, April 2005
• Poets of the Civil War , Library of America, 250 pages, April 2005
• The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem by James Merrill , edited by JD McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, Alfred A. Knopf: Random House, 608 pages, February 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Poet, librettist, and longtime Yale Review editor JD McClatchy. In: YaleNews. April 11, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Kennedy, Sean, "Kidd dynamite: the first collection of book jackets by Chip Kidd prompts the question" would there be books without him? "An exclusive talk with the out designer, The Advocate

Web links

• Literature by and about JD McClatchy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography Between the Lines