William Dickey

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William Hobart Dickey ( December 15, 1928 - May 3, 1994 ) was an American poet , author and professor of English at San Francisco State University .

Life

Dickey was born in Bellingham , Washington , in 1928 . He grew up in the states of Washington and Oregon . Dickey attended Reed College , where he graduated in 1951. Dickey began writing novels and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship . He studied at Harvard University, where he received his Master of Arts in 1955 , and then at the University of Iowa , where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1956 . With the support of the Fulbright program , he then studied at Jesus College at the University of Oxfordfrom 1959 to 1960. Dickey lived with his significant other, Leonard Sanazaro, who taught at the City College of San Francisco . Dickey was among other things a student with John Berryman at the Iowa Writers' Workshop .

In 1959 the first collection of the poems Of the Festtivity by WH Auden was selected as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition .

His collection of poems, More Under Saturn , won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Club of California in 1972, and The Rainbow Grocery collection of poems received the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press .

Dickey was an English language instructor at Cornell University from 1956 to 1959. He then worked from 1960 to 1962 at Denison University. In 1962 he was appointed professor of English at San Francisco State University , where he taught until his retirement in 1991. In 1994 Dickey died of complications from AIDS at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco .

Works (selection)

  • Of the Festivity (Yale University Press, 1959)
  • Interpreter's House (Ohio State University Press, 1963)
  • Rivers of the Pacific Northwest (Twowindows Press, 1969)
  • More Under Saturn (Wesleyan University Press, 1971)
  • Sheena (Funge Art Center, Gorey, Ireland, 1975)
  • The Rainbow Grocery (University of Massachusetts Press, 1978)
  • The Sacrifice Consenting (Pterodactyl Press, 1981)
  • Six Philosophical Songs (Pterodactyl Press, 1983)
  • Joy (Pterodactyl Press, 1983)
  • Brief Lives (Heyeck Press, 1985)
  • The King of the Golden River (Pterodactyl Press, 1985)
  • In the Dreaming (University of Arkansas Press, 1994)
  • The Education of Desire (University Press of New England, 1996)

His poems have appeared in various anthologies:

  • The Best American Poetry 1996 , ("The Arrival of the Titanic")
  • The Best American Poetry 1997 , ("The Death of John Berryman")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Goldstein , 1980, "William Dickey" in: Donald J. Greiner, Dictionary of Literary Biography , 5th Edition, pages 191-195
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/11/obituaries/william-dickey-poet-and-teacher-is-dead-at-65.html
  3. ^ Poetry Foundation: William Dickey
  4. ^ New York Times: William Dickey, Poet and Teacher, Is Dead at 65
personal data
SURNAME Dickey, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dickey, William Hobart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, poet, and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellingham , Washington
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1994