Beth Bachmann

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Beth Bachmann
OccupationPoet
Notable worksTemper, Do Not Rise
Notable awardsKate Tufts Discovery Award, AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize, PSA Alice Fay di Castagnola Award
Website
www.bethbachmann.com

Beth Bachmann is an American poet.

Bachmann is Writer in Residence of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. [1] Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review , Kenyon Review , Antioch Review , [2] AGNI, Prairie Schooner , Blackbird , [3] Tin House , and Ploughshares . [4] They are included in the textbook The Practice of Creative Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's). [5]

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Biography

Bachmann was born and raised near Philadelphia, where her father, a non-combat veteran, worked as a shoe-shiner and locker-room attendant. Her first book, Temper, concerns the 1993 murder of her sister, an unsolved crime. She was educated at the Johns Hopkins University and Concordia University in Montreal. Each fall, she teaches in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University. [6]

Awards

Works

Anthologies

Reviews

The work of Beth Bachmann has been compared to Alice Fulton: "the poems of both Fulton and Bachmann evince a humanity capacious, generous, courageous, and unafraid to make human beings real to one another, which is one great function of the humanities, and of poetry in particular."Lisa Russ Spaar [16]

Bachmann’s poems grabbed me because of their violence—was I just looking for it?—but it was a violence which was often implied, a sense of foreboding, a mood often just beneath the surface, rather than Wertmuller’s horrifying image of a family of ten being gunned down in a mass grave. And it’s not that I don’t like Wertmuller’s films—I do. I guess this particular evening I just wanted the striptease, not the naked body; the faint hint of heat, not the bottle of Tabasco. - D. A. Powell [17]

metamorphosis, resonance, transformation, the alchemy of art. Bachmann is able-by a few simple, direct gestures...to connect her personal grief and tragedy to the whole tradition of English (and Western) verse and to the poetic impulse itself to make beauty out of sorrow. - A.E. Stallings [18]

formidable...mind-boggling...absolutely tonic...when George Herbert wrote about temper he meant that process by which metals are beaten and burned and subjected to dire extremity so as to gain their supple resilience and serviceable strength. That is the work these poems do. - Linda Gregerson [19]

Restraint and abandon ride side-by-side through these fiercely distilled poems-again and again they bear reluctant witness to the shadows hovering around the edges of every moment. Temper starts with an evocation of a mystery-an empty train station, the words of a last phone call, a sister's body beside the tracks. Move closer. I want to tell you a story, the poet murmurs alluringly, as if to implicate us in the crime. A beautiful unease suffuses these poems-they make me aware I'm alive, and certain of nothing. A stunning debut. - Nick Flynn [20]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lucrative Poetry Awards Go to 2 Academics" Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 4, 2010. link
  2. ↑ The Antioch review, Volume 63, editor John Donald Kingsley
  3. ↑ "Beth Bachmann, Blackbird". Blackbird.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  4. ↑ "author detail". Pshares.org. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  5. ↑ Vanderbilt University official biography Archived October 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "BETH | Beth Bachmann".
  7. ↑ "Beth Bachmann - Guggenheim".
  8. ↑ "Beth Bachmann - Poetry Society of America". Poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  9. ↑ ISBN   978-0-8229-6040-9 WorldCat
  10. ↑ "D.A. Powell and Beth Bachmann Win Prestigious Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award for 2010". PR.com. 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  11. ↑ "AWP- Award Series". Awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  12. ↑ Best new poets 2005 WorldCat
  13. ↑ Best new poets 2007 WorldCat
  14. ↑ "Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland". Gargoylemagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  15. ↑ WorldCat
  16. ↑ Russ Spaar, Lisa (Mar 13, 2015). "Second Acts". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved Mar 25, 2015.
  17. ↑ "harriet" D.A. Powell
  18. ↑ A.E. Stallings
  19. ↑ Linda Gregerson
  20. ↑ "Beth Bachmann Poetry". Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-05-13. Nick Flynn
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