Rachel Hadas

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Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Piece by Piece: Selected Prose (Paul Dry Books, 2021), [1] and her most recent poetry collection is Ghost Guest (Ragged Sky Press, 2023). [2] [3] Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Grants, [4] the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. [5]

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Biography

The daughter of noted Columbia University classicist Moses Hadas and Latin teacher Elizabeth Chamberlayne Hadas, Hadas grew up in Morningside Heights, New York City. She received a baccalaureate at Radcliffe College in classics, a Master of Arts (1977) at Johns Hopkins University in poetry, and a doctorate at Princeton University in comparative literature (1982). [5]

Living in Greece after her undergraduate work at Radcliffe, Hadas became an intimate of poet James Merrill, a strong influence on her early work. [5] [6] Her subject matter combines her roots in the classics with the intimately personal, with memory and elegy recurring themes throughout her work. [5] Her late husband George Edwards’s illness with early-onset dementia gave rise not only to her 2011 memoir Strange Relation but also to an involvement in the field of medical humanities. [7] [8]  During the height of the AIDS crisis, she led poetry workshops for those afflicted, and edited an anthology of poems produced there, Unending Dialogue:Poems from an AIDS Poetry Workshop (1993). [9]

Hadas is also a translator, specializing in Classical Greek and Latin, and has translated the works of Euripides and Nonnus. [10] [11] [12] Her translations of writers including Tibullus, Charles Baudelaire, and the Greek poet Konstantinos Karyotakis, were collected in Other Worlds Than This (1994). [13] Hadas currently serves as Original English Verse Editor of the journal Classical Outlook.

Hadas taught English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University from 1981 to 2023; in 2001 she was named Board of Governors Professor of English. [14] Hadas lives in New York City and Danville Vermont and is married to the visual artist Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she collaborates on poetry and video. [15] [16] [17] She was married to composer George Edwards until his death in 2011. [18] Hadas has a son, Jonathan Hadas Edwards (born 1984), an acupuncturist, herbalist, and writer. [19] [17]

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  1. ↑ "Lyrics in Search of an Allegory: On Three Recent Books from Rachel Hadas". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2022-11-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. ↑ "Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters" . Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. ↑ "ISBN 9781933974521 - Ghost Guest: Poems". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  4. ↑ Academy of American Poets > Rachel Hadas Biography
  5. 1 2 3 4 Foundation, Poetry (2024-02-09). "Rachel Hadas". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  6. ↑ "Memories of Merrill". James Merrill House. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  7. ↑ "Strange Relation—A memoir of marriage, dementia, and poetry". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  8. ↑ "Though Much Is Taken, Much Abides: Fifteen Years of Literature & Medicine - Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters". 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  9. ↑ "Unending dialogue : voices from an AIDS poetry workshop | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  10. ↑ "On Translation - Rachel Hadas - Literary Matters". 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  11. ↑ "The Iphigenia Plays". Northwestern University Press. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  12. ↑ "Review of: Tales of Dionysus: the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN   1055-7660.
  13. ↑ "Other Worlds Than This". Bucknell University Press. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  14. ↑ "Rachel Hadas, Author at The American Scholar". The American Scholar. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  15. ↑ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Offering to Yemaya, Shalom Gorewitz". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  16. ↑ "Rachel C. Hadas". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  17. 1 2 "Athenaeum Celebrating Readings In The Gallery With Dedication Of New Sculpture". Caledonian Record. 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
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  19. ↑ "Author Bio Jonathan Fakayode Hadas Edwards – LEON Literary Review". leonliteraryreview.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.

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