Peter Wild
Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Peter Wild was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.
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Peter Wild
- Birth Name
- Peter T.
- Born
- 25 April 1940
- Birthplace
- Northampton, Massachusetts, US
- Died
- 23 February 2009
- Place of death
- Tucson, Arizona, US
- Occupation
- * Professor of English
- Education
- University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.)
- Spouse
- Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?)
- Awards
- Writer's Digest prize, 1964 Ark River Review prize, 1972 nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine. He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West. His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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• Birth Name — Peter T. Wild • Born — 25 April 1940 • Birthplace — Northampton, Massachusetts, US • Died — 23 February 2009 • Place of death — Tucson, Arizona, US • Occupation — * Professor of English • poet • writer • Education — University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.) • Period — 1969–2009 • Genre — poetry, American history • Subject — American Southwest • Notable Works — Cochise (1973) • Spouse — Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?) • Awards — Writer's Digest prize, 1964 Ark River Review prize, 1972 nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973
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- 1.Butscher, Edward. Peter Wild. Boise State University (Western Writers Series #106). 53. 1992. 978-0884301059.
- 2."Peter T. Wild, professor, poet". The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 11, 2009
- 3.Freed, Walter; Greiner, Donald J. (ed.) (1980). "Peter Wild". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 5, American Poets since World War II, First Series Part 2: L–Z . Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. pp. 390 ff. . ; also available from BookRags at Dictionary of Literary Biography on Peter Wild
- 4.Wakoski, Diane. Wild, Peter. Contemporary Poets. January 1, 2001.
- 5.University of Arizona Poetry Center. In Memoriam: Peter Wild 1940–2009.
- 6.He became the leading authority on John Charles Van Dyke and the high desert. University of Arizona, University Libraries: Papers of Peter Wild Regarding Research on John C. Van Dyke
- 7.Kirkus Reviews. Cochise by Peter Wild.
- 8.University of Nevada Press: About Peter Wild.
- 9.Kirkus Reviews. The Cloning by Peter Wild.
- 10.Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.
- 11.Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Clarence E. Dutton, John G. Bourke, John C. Van Dyke, D. H. Lawrence, J. Frank Dobie, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Peter Reyner Banham. Edited with Dean Saxton and Lucille Saxton
- 12.Cofone, Albin J. The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. The American Indian Quarterly. March 22, 1994.
- 13.Reviewed in: "The New Desert Reader." (Brief article)(Book review). Internet Bookwatch. Midwest Book Review. 2006. and "The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2006.
- 14.Ingham, Zita. The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931. Nineteenth-Century Prose. March 22, 1995.
- 15.'The grumbling gods; a Palm Springs reader'. Reference & Research Book News. November 1, 2007.
- 16.A biography of South, who wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) in Desert Magazine about his primitive life on the desert.
- 17.The Secret Life of John C Van Dyke: Selected Letters. Virginia Quarterly Review. January 1, 1998.
- 18.Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave". The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 52
- Poetry
- Cranium Press. Sonnets. 24. 1967.
- Art Association of Cincinnati. The Afternoon in Dismay. 87. 1968. 678909.
- The Little Press & New Rivers Press. Wild's Magical Book of Cranial Effusions. 1971. 091228417X.
- Ithaca House. Peligros. 1971. 0878860088.
- Doubleday. Cochise. 107. 1973. 978-0385057929.
- New Rivers Press (distributor: Serendipity Books). New and Selected Poems. 175 OCLC. 1973. 978-0912284408.
- Kirkus Reviews. The Cloning by Peter Wild. 103. 1974. 978-0385075916.
- Doubleday & Co. Chichuahua. 1976. 0385114524.
- New Rivers Press. Wilderness. 1980. 0898230144.
- Raccoon Books, St. Luke's Press. Jeanne D'Arc. 1980. 0918518121.
- Logbridge-Rhodes. New Poetry of the American West. 104. 1982. 978-0937406199.
- Floating Island Publications. The Light on Little Mormon Lake. 1984. 0912449101.
- University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City (as editor)
- Cofone, Albin J. The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. The American Indian Quarterly. University of Utah Press Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, [[William Gilpin (governor). 263. March 22, 1994. 978-0874803662.
- Wild, Peter. The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. University of Utah Press. 324. 2006. 978-0874808711.
- Ingham, Zita. The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931. Nineteenth-Century Prose. University of Utah Press cite journal. 324. March 22, 1995. 0874803926.
- Into the Wilderness Dream: Explorations Narratives of the American West, 1500–1805. 416. 1994. 0874804434.
- University of Utah Press. A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805–1850. 348. 1997. 978-0874805390 OCLC.
- Wild, Peter. 'The grumbling gods; a Palm Springs reader'. Reference & Research Book News. University of Utah Press OCLC. 251. November 1, 2007. 978-0874808995.
- Boise State University Western Writers Series (BSUWWS #) – Boise, Idaho
- Alberto Ríos (#131). 1998. pp. 51. .
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (#101). 1991. pp. 51. . (print and on-line)
- Ann Zwinger (#111). 1993. pp. 51. .
- Barry Lopez (#94). 1984. pp. 49. .
- Clarence King (#48). 1981. pp. 46. .
- Desert Literature: The Early Period (#146). 2001. pp. 51. .
- Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle (#138). 1999. pp. 53. .
- Desert Literature: The Modern Period (#144). 2000. pp. 52. .
- Enos Mills (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. .
- George Wharton James (#93). 1990. pp. 52. .
- J. Ross Browne (#157). 2003. pp. 49. .
- James Welch (#57). 1983. pp. 49. .
- John C. Van Dyke: The Desert (#82). 1988. pp. 52. .
- John Haines (#68). 1985. pp. 51. .
- John Nichols (#75). 1986. pp. 52. .
- Theodore Strong Van Dyke (#121). 1995. pp. 54. .
- The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California
- Desert Magazine: The Henderson Years. 112. 2004. 56193617.
- J. Smeaton Chase. 211. 2005. 62232191.
- Marshal South, of Yaquitepec. 157. 2005. 58796769.
- News from Palm Springs: The Letters of Carl Eytel, Edmund C. Jaeger, J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Francis Saunders, and Others of the Creative Brotherhood and Its Background. 2007. 163456618.
- Tipping the Dream: A Brief History of Palm Springs. 228. 2007. 152590848 <!-- ASIN.
- William Pester: The Hermit of Palm Springs. 161. 2008. 234084689 <!-- ASIN.
- Other publishers:
- Mountain Press Pub. Co. Pioneer Conservations of Western America. 247. 1979. 978-0878421077.
- University of Nevada Press. The Secret Life of John C Van Dyke: Selected Letters. Virginia Quarterly Review. 165. January 1, 1998. 978-0874172942 OCLC.
- Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. . (print and on-line) Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave". The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive.
- University of Texas Press. The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest. 219. 1999. 978-0292791299 OCLC.
- Texas Christian University. Different Travellers, Different Eyes: Artists' Narratives of the American West, 1820–1920. 270. 2001. 978-0875652429.
- Estate of Peter Wild. Paradise of Desire: Eleven Palm Springs Novels. 281. 2011. 748584112.
- Estate of Peter Wild. Heiress of Doom: Lois Kellogg of Palm Springs. 449. 2011. 748583736.
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