Bruce Whiteman

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Bruce Whiteman (born David Bruce Whiteman, June 18, 1952) is a Canadian poet, translator, editor, and essayist whose writings focus on music, bibliography, cultural history, and literature. Born in Southern Ontario and educated at Trent University and the University of Toronto, [1] in 1996 Whiteman was appointed director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, a position he held until 2010. [2] Currently Whiteman lives in Peterborough, Ontario, [3] and contributes book reviews and essays regularly to publications such as TriQuarterly , Rattle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books . [4] [5] [6]

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Poetry

Although he has published extensively as a rare books librarian, scholar, and critic, Whiteman has called writing poetry "the part of my life I'm most passionate about." [7] Known primarily as a prose poet who has been compared to fellow Canadian poets Christopher Dewdney and bpNichol, [8] [9] Whiteman's opus magnum is The Invisible World is In Decline, a continuing long poem he began working on in 1981 and which was first published in 1984; the work now comprises eight books, with the ninth and final volume due for publication in 2022. [10] A 2015 publication entitled Tablature marked Whiteman's return to the sort of verse poetry that characterized much of his earlier work. [11]

Selected publications

Poetry

Translation

Cultural History

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References

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  2. "Finding Aid for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Institutional Archive 1934-2010: Subseries 6. Bruce Whiteman, 1996-2010". Online Archive of California (OAC). Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  3. Contributor's biographies. Biblioasis. 10 December 2019. ISBN   9781771963336 . Retrieved 17 December 2019.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. "Contributor biography". TriQuarterly Online. Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  5. Whiteman, Bruce. "Dark Archive by Laura Mullen". Rattle. Rattle Foundation. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  6. Whiteman, Bruce. "A Serious Man Whose Love Will Last: On Two New Classical Translations by David R. Slavitt". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2012-04-01.
  7. Scudder, Kirby. "Bruce Whiteman". Inspired by California. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  8. "1984". Tweny/20. Coach House Books. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  9. "Publisher's description: The Invisible World is In Decline". Inigo.com. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  10. "The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX". ECW Press. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  11. "Tablature". Quill and Quire. 2015-04-06. Retrieved 2021-11-30.