Joe Rosenblatt

Joe Rosenblatt as Joseph Rosenblatt (born December 26, 1933 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada ; † March 11, 2019 ) was a Canadian poet , writer and painter who won the Governor General's Award in 1976 with Top Soil and in 1986 with Poetry Hotel to the BC Book Prizes belonging to the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize .

Life

Joseph Rosenblatt was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he grew up in the urban area of ​​Kensington Market and attended Lansdowne Public School. He later attended Central Technical School, which he left without a degree, after which he worked in a variety of simple jobs in industry. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1956 .

As early as the late 1950s, Rosenblatt became deeply interested in the ideas of socialism , was involved in anti-nuclear demonstrations and sold the Trotskyist magazine Workers Vanguard , which indirectly made him one of the leading figures behind the Socialist Educational League, an extremely left-wing group who wanted to increase their influence over the Canadian unions. In the early 1960s, Joe Rosenblatt began writing poetry in earnest, as his mind felt connected to the works of the worker poet Milton Acorn and the metaphysical poems of Gwendolyn MacEwen . Other poets who helped spark his own artistic spark were Al Purdy and Earle Birney .

Rosenblatt's first book, The LSD Leacock , was published in 1966. That same year he received a government grant that allowed him to quit his job with the Canadian Pacific Railway and devote himself entirely to writing.

During his writing career over four decades he wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry and various autobiographical works. His poems appeared in over 30 anthologies on Canadian poetry . His reading tours from 1987 to 1993 took him not only through Canada and the United States , but also through Europe , particularly through Italy , Sweden and Finland .

Books in Canada praised his street shrewdness and the hand-washed wisdom that would define his poetic character in 1988: “street smart, water wise, heaven bent, Joe Rosenblatt is a talented man, fisher of gods, and a school in himself. He makes you feel things that are hard to touch: bee fur, tadpoles, and the human heart. "

Joseph Rosenblatt himself formulated his writing philosophy as follows: “I write to escape hyper reality - genocide of man, elephants and fish - the death of the ozone layer, the industrial degredation [sic] of the earth - My affordable opiate is my muse. It allows me to float into a dream state and create an escapist literature. Let the prose-fanciers, the dog people as opposed to poetic feline fancier - indulge in grim reality. The very thought of reality gives me hives. "

In 1976 Top Soil appeared with selected poems, which won the Governor General's Award in the same year . Ten years later, Jo Rosenblatt selected with another volume of poetry works, Poetry Hotel , the first winner of the BC Book Prizes belonging Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize , the then BC Book Prize for Poetry said.

Over the years, the Canadian poet worked as writer-in-residence at various universities in his own country ( University of Victoria , University of Western Ontario ), but also at La Sapienza University , Rome , and the University of Bologna . Various bilingual editions of his poems have been published in Italy thanks to the translations by Alfredo Rizzardi from the University of Bologna and Ada Donati from the University of Rome. In addition, his poems have been translated into French , Dutch , Swedish and Spanish . In the German language of his poems were not translated until today. From 1969 to 1983 he was the editor of the eclectic literary magazine Jewish Dialog .

Joseph Rosenblatt was also considered a talented painter and draftsman, who called the English poet and painter William Blake his great inspiration. His paintings, drawings and sketches, which illustrate his own works as well as those of other artists , hang in various Canadian private collections and public galleries . He himself lived in Qualicum Beach , British Columbia for over two decades with his wife Faye, a piano teacher.

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Poetry

• The LSD Leacock . Coach House Press, Toronto 1966.
• Winter of the Luna Moth . Toronto, House of Anansi 1968.
• Bumblebee Dithyramb . Press Porcépic, Erin 1972.
• Blind Photographer . Press Porcépic, Erin, 1974.
• Dream Craters . Press Porcépic, Erin, 1975.
• Virgins & Vampires . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1975.
• Top Soil, Selected Poems (1962-1975) . Porcépic, Erin, 1976.
• Loosely tied hands . Black Moss Press, Windsor 1978.
• The Sleeping Lady . Exile Editions, Toronto 1980.
• Brides of the Stream . Oolichan Books, Lantzville, BC 1983.
• Poetry Hotel, Selected Poems (1963-1985) . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1985.
• A tentacled mother . (in the original and supplemented by a few suns ) Exile Editions, Toronto, Oct. 1995.
• The Rosenblatt Reader . (Selected Poems and Prose, 1962–1995) Exile Editions, Toronto 1995.
• The Voluptuous Gardener . (New poems and selected paintings from the permanent exhibition at the Carleton University Art Gallery) Beach Holme Press, Vancouver, 1996.
• Parrot fever . Collages by Michel Christensen . Exile Editions, Toronto 2002.
• The lunatic muse , Joe Rosenblatt; edited by David Berry. Exile Editions, Toronto 2007.
• Dog , Joe Rosenblatt & Catherine Owen ; Photos by Karen Moe. Mansfield Press, Toronto 2008.
• Catherine Owen and Joe Rosenblatt: Dark Fish and Other Infernos. JackPine, Saskatoon 2011.

Fiction / prose

• Tommy Fry & the Ant Colony . Black Moss, Windsor 1970.
• Escape From the Glue Factory . (Autobiography) Exile Editions, Toronto 1985.
• The Kissing Goldfish of Siam . (Autobiography) Exile Editions, Toronto 1989.
• Beds & Consenting Dreamers . (Experimental novel) Oolichan Books, Lantzville, BC 1994.

Awards

• 1976: Governor General's Award , Top Soil
• 1986: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize , Poetry Hotel

literature

• Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Edited by William H. New. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2002, pp. 986f.
• Pleuke Boyce: Qualicum metaphysics [interview with Joe Rosenblatt]. In: Books in Canada, Vol. 17/4 (May 1988), pp. 17-18.
• Ed Jewinski: Joe Rosenblatt and his works. ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 978-1550220735 .
• Linda Rogers (Ed.): Joe Rosenblatt. Essays on his works. Guernica Editions, Toronto 2006, ISBN 978-1550712049 .

Web links

• Poem: A Blushing Ague. Out: The Voluptuous Gardener . Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Press, 1996
• Poem: The Boys Are Stepping Out Tonight. Out: The Voluptuous Gardener . Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Press, 1996
• Poem: My Little Messenger. Out: The Voluptuous Gardener . Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Press, 1996
• Poem: Combustion. Out: The Voluptuous Gardener . Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Press, 1996
• Poem: Padding through the pampas grass. Out: The Voluptuous Gardener . Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Press, 1996
• Artist profile Joe Rosenblatts on Saatchi Online. Retrieved April 8, 2012
• Sonnets . In: Exile Quartely. Volume 28, 4 (Spring 2001) pp. 53-69. Retrieved April 8, 2001
• Joe Rosenblatt ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JOE ROSENBLATT: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE accessed on April 4, 2019
2. ↑ Joe Rosenblatt's artistic self-image with examples of pictures on www.rougegallery.ca. Retrieved on April 8, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ ^{A b} " Joe Rosenblatt: Biography ," Canadian Poetry Online - www.library.utoronto.ca
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Heather Pyrcz, " The Experimental Poets ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. , "A Digital History of Canadian Poetry, YoungPoets, approx. Retrieved April 7, 2012. 
5. ^ Sharon Drache, " Rosenblatt, Joseph ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1987
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} " Joe Rosenblatt ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. " QualicumFrameworksGallery.ca. Retrieved April 8, 2012. 
7. ↑ John Riddell: How Marxists in the Unions. Reached Out to Student Radicals. Recollections of the Late 1950s. In: www.socialisthistory.ca - Originally: Socialist Voice, Number 22, November 23, 2004. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
8. ↑ Joe Rosenblatt - www.burnabyartgallery.ca ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 5, 2012. 
9. ^ " Joe Rosenblatt: Writing Philosophy, " Canadian Poetry Online. Retrieved April 7, 2012
10. ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/joe-rosenblatt
11. ^ Artist profile of Joe Rosenblatt on Saatchi Online. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
12. ↑ Examples of images on http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/other1.htm . Retrieved April 8, 2012.
13. ↑ Art Bar presents ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brian Campbell , Edward Nixon and Joe Rosenblatt. May 15, 2009. Retrieved April 8, 2012.  
14. ↑ Joe Rosenblatt. - www.poets.ca  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 8, 2012.  
15. ↑ Nebula 14: The Voluptuous Gardener. Poetry and Visual Art by Joe Rosenblatt. Presentation by the editor. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
16. ↑ Poetry Review by Jay Ruzesky.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In it: Catherine Owen and Joe Rosenblatt, Dark Fish and Other Infernos ; Onjana Yawnghwe , The Imaginary Lives of Buster Keaton ; Patricia Young , Pilgrimage: Love Poems . In: The Malahat Review . Summer 2012. No. 179 July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2012.  
17. ^ " Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Retrieved April 8, 2011.