Rick Hilles

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Rick Hilles
BornNovember 25
Canton, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education Hoover High School
Kent State University (BA, LSM)
Columbia University (MFA)
Notable awards Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (2005)
Whiting Award (2008)

Rick Hilles is an American poet.

Life

Rick Hilles was born in Canton, Ohio (on November 25)[ when? ] and grew up in North Canton (formerly "New Berlin"), Ohio, where he attended North Canton Montessori before entering the public schools, receiving his diploma from Hoover High School.

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After receiving a scholarship to attend the Columbus College of Art & Design (where he studied drawing, design, and painting intensively for a year), he received his B.A. and L.S.M. from Kent State University and his M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from Columbia University.

His poems have appeared in Poetry, [1] Paris Review, [2] The Nation, The New Republic, Salmagundi, Witness, Missouri Review, [3] [ failed verification ] and translations have appeared in Field and Harper's. [4]

He was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and the Ruth and Jay C. Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught creative writing and poetry. He has also done graduate work at Rice and the University of Houston, where he also taught. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Michigan, where he taught poetry courses in literature and creative writing.

Since 2005, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in literature and creative writing (poetry) as an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. [5]

Reception

If Brother Salvage were Rick Hilles’, say, third collection, not his first as it is; if the versatility and dynamism of voice in these poems signaled a poet’s maturation from the safer outings of his youth; if we could’ve foreseen this kind of command of histories and their peculiar narrators, the book would merely astonish. Instead, Rick Hilles has leapt onto poetry’s stage in a debut both transporting and grounding, clever though never once inclined to wink at you. [6]

Rick Hilles's first collection, is constructed upon an ambitious intellectual edifice that both grounds and ties together the disparate personal and historical materials of the poems. The books central metaphor is that of the genizah, a Hebrew word for "hiding place," which an epigraph to the title poem explains is "a depository where old and/or worn-out secular, holy & heretical books are kept inviolate ... Genizot serve the twin purpose of protecting what they contain and preventing their more dangerous contents from causing harm." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "September 1999 Table of Contents - Poetry Foundation". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "The Paris Review". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  3. ↑ "The Missouri Review". missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Nothing found for Archive 2003 06 0079616".
  5. ↑ "Rick Hilles". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ Tom Haushalter (2006-12-18). "Brother Salvage (Poems) by Rick Hilles". Small Spiral Notebook. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  7. ↑ Aaron Baker (Summer 2007). "Brother Salvage". The Southern Review.
  8. ↑ "UW-Madison Libraries - Parallel Press Poetry Chapbooks". Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2009.
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