James L. McMichael

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James L. McMichael (born 1939) is an American poet and educator.

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Life

The Pasadena, California native, McMichael received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 1970, following the breakup of his first marriage, he married his second wife, Phylinda Wallace, a translator. They later divorced and he remarried. He has three children, Robert, Geoffrey and Owen. [1]

McMichael is a Professor Emeritus in the English department under the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. [2]

"McMichael writes densely; his language is compacted, coiled, sprung (in Hopkins's sense) and highly allusive. It is never simple or straightforward," writes Liz Rozenberg in a Boston Globe review. [3]

Eric McHenry, in a brief review of Capacity in The New York Times , wrote: "Since 1980, his [McMichael's] sole contributions to the genre (excluding a "new and selected") have been three book-length poems, each strikingly different from the others and from anything else on the market. In Capacity, he has exchanged the long lines and explicit autobiography of the previous two for dispassion, elision and lines as short as a syllable." [4]

Awards

His first new poetry collection in a decade, Capacity, was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry. [2]

He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1995 Whiting Award, the 1999 Arthur Rense Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, [2] and the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship.

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References

  1. 1 2 "James McMichael". Poetry Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on March 13, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "2006 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry". The National Book Foundation. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ Rosenberg, Liz (December 3, 2006). "In the year's most honored poetry, language reinvented". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ McHenry, Eric (April 23, 2006). "Poetry Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  5. ↑ 'Capacity' by James McMichael Coldfront Jun 9, 2006 - The Great Famine of Ireland is something all but ignored in modern verse. In his sixth book, Capacity, James McMichael uses the poem “The Begotten” to remind us of its ugliness."
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