Ralph James Salisbury | |
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Born | January 24, 1926 |
Died | October 9, 2017 |
Occupation(s) | Poet, Writer, Editor, Professor |
Spouse | Ingrid Wendt |
Children | 3 |
Ralph James Salisbury (January 24, 1926 - October 9, 2017) was an American poet. [1] His poem "In the Children's Museum in Nashville" was published in The New Yorker in 1960, making him one of the first self-identified Native American poets to receive national attention. His autobiography So Far, So Good won the 2012 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. His book Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New and Selected was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. [2]
Ralph Salisbury was born in 1926 on a farm in Fayette County in northeast Iowa to an Irish American mother and a father he claimed had English, Cherokee, and Shawnee ancestry, [3] who raised him on a farm with no electricity or running water. [4] Although he identified as Native American, he was not enrolled in any Nation nation. [5] He survived a lightning strike at the age of 15. [6] A year after graduating from Aurora (Iowa) High School at age 16, he enlisted in the Air Force and was trained as an aerial gunman, completing his training within days of the end of World War Two. [7] The G.I Bill enabled him to enroll in the North Iowa Teachers College and, later, the University of Iowa, where he studied with Robert Lowell and earned a MFA degree. [8]
Poesie Da Un Retaggio Cherokee, Multimedia Edizioni, Salerno, Italy 1995, Tr. Prof. Fedora Giordano.
Salisbury died peacefully on October 9, 2017. He was survived by his wife, Ingrid Wendt, and three children: Jeffrey Salisbury, Brian Salisbury, and Martina Salisbury. [11]
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