Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.
Irving Feldman
- Name
- Irving Feldman
- Born
- 22 September 1928
- Birthplace
- Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet and Professor of English
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Columbia University · City College of New York
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · MacArthur Fellows Program · Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Irving Feldman • Born — 22 September 1928 • Birthplace — Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Poet and Professor of English • Children — Fernando Feldman
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Irving Feldman (born 22 September 1928) is described as a poet in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Irving Feldman was born on 22 September 1928.
Academic career
Academic career
Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education.[1] After an undergraduate education at the City College of New York (B.A., 1950), Feldman completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953. His first academic appointments were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004.
Published works
• Works and Days (1961), Little, Brown Book Group. • The Pripet Marshes (1965), Viking. • Magic Papers and Other Poems (1970), Harper & Row. • Lost Originals (1972) Holf, Rinehart and Winston. • Leaping Clear and Other Poems (1976), Viking. • New and Selected Poems (1979), Viking. • Teach Me, Dear Sister (1983), Penguin Books. • All of Us Here and Other Poems (1986), Penguin Books. • The Life and Letters (1994), University of Chicago Press. • Beautiful False Things: Poems (2000), Grove Press. • Collected Poems, 1954-2004 (2004), Shocken. • Usable Truths: Aphorisms & Observations (2019), Waywiser Press.
Awards and honors
Irving Feldman has received a number of accolades for his poetry which include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Institute of Arts & Letters award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship,[2] Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts grant.[3] In 1992, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[4] He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for Works and Days and Other Poems.[5] In 1994, Harold Bloom included New and Selected Poems in his list of books constituting the Western Canon.[6]
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- 1.Wheatcroft, John. Our other voices: Nine poets speaking. Bucknell University Press. 61. March 1991. 978-0-8387-5196-1.
- 2.Irving Feldman.
- 3.Irving Feldman.
- 4.John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. MacArthur Fellows - July 1992.
- 5.Past Winners. Jewish Book Council.
- 6.Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Harcourt Brace. 566. 1994. 978-0-15-195747-7.
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