Cynthia Cruz

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Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet. [1] She is the author of seven published poetry collections, and two works of cultural criticism. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. [2]

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Life

Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Cruz grew up in Germany and in northern California.

She earned her B.A. at Mills College. She earned her M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Art Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts and an MA in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Cruz is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. Her research centers on Hegel.

Work

Her first collection of poems, Ruin, was published by Alice James Books in 2006, and reviewed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Library Journal and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. [3] Her second collection The Glimmering Room was published by Four Way Books [4] and launched at the contemporary art gallery Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden; it was also reviewed by The New York Times alongside the poet C. K. Williams. [5] [6] Her third collection, Wunderkammer, was published in 2014 by Four Way Books, "How the End Begins" was published in 2016, [7] "Dregs," in 2018, [8] and "Guidebooks for the Dead" in 2020. [9] Her books have been reviewed widely. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [7] Her seventh collection of poems, "Hotel Oblivion," nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award [15] and the National Book Critics Circle Award [16] was published in 2022. [17]

She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including BOMB Magazine,'The New Yorker [18] AGNI, [19] The American Poetry Review, [20] Boston Review , Denver Quarterly , Guernica and The Paris Review, and in anthologies including Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets (Wave Books, 2004), and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, edited by poet Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004). She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Followship from Princeton University. [21] [22] In spring of 2019 Disquieting: Essays on Silence, a collection of critical essays, was published by Book*hug. A second collection of cultural criticism, The Melancholia of Class, was published by Repeater Books in 2021. [23]

Cruz is editor, with the visual artist, Steven Page, of the interdisciplinary journal, Schlag Magazine. [24]

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References

  1. ↑ About Cynthia Cruz | Academy of American Poets
  2. ↑ "Cynthia Cruz". Poetry Foundation. 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  3. ↑ "Ruin". Alice James Books. Archived from the original on May 3, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz". Four Way Books. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  5. ↑ Latimer, Quinn (November–December 2012). "The Year in Books". Frieze (151). Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
  6. ↑ Jennings, Dana (December 31, 2012). "Poets Who Look Death in the Eye". The New York Times.
  7. 1 2 "Four Way Books » How the End Begins". fourwaybooks.com.
  8. ↑ "Four Way Books » Dregs". fourwaybooks.com.
  9. ↑ "Four Way Books » Guidebooks for the Dead". fourwaybooks.com.
  10. ↑ "Curiosity and rarity | Jacket2". jacket2.org.
  11. ↑ "Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz".
  12. ↑ "On How The End Begins by Cynthia Cruz". The Kenyon Review.
  13. ↑ "How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz".
  14. ↑ "Dregs by Cynthia Cruz".
  15. ↑ Morales, Brittney (February 21, 2023). "Finalists Selected for CGU's Prestigious Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards ·Claremont Graduate University". Claremont Graduate University.
  16. ↑ Elmajdoubi, Halima (February 21, 2023). "Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz". National Book Critics Circle.
  17. ↑ "Four Way Books » Hotel Oblivion". fourwaybooks.com.
  18. ↑ Cruz, Cynthia (February 1, 2010). "Diagnosis". The New Yorker.
  19. ↑ Cruz, Cynthia. "My Heart is the Smallest Catafalque". AGNI Online. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  20. ↑ Cruz, Cynthia (November–December 2008). "The Cinema Room". The American Poetry Review. 37 (6).
  21. ↑ "Index of MacDowell Fellows". The MacDowell Colony. Archived from the original on May 26, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  22. ↑ "Cynthia Cruz". Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  23. ↑ "Unknown".[ permanent dead link ]
  24. ↑ "Home". schlagmagazine.com.
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