David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.[1] He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.[1]
Wevill was born in Japan and went to Canada before the outbreak of World War II. He read History and English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a noted member of an underground literary movement in London known as The Group.
Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in Al Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962), aimed at resisting the conservative milieu of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill is also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on poetry in translation and the poetics of translation.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 1981.[2]
Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.
Works
- Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Penguin, 1963)
- Birth of a Shark (Macmillan, 1964)
- A Christ of the Ice-Floes (Macmillan, 1966)
- Penguin Modern European Poets: Ferenc Juhász (Penguin, 1970)
- Firebreak (Macmillan, 1971)
- Where the Arrow Falls (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Casual Ties [1] (Curbstone, 1983; Tavern Books, 2010)
- Other Names for the Heart (Exile Editions Ltd., 1985)
- Figure of 8: New Poems and Selected Translations (Exile Editions Ltd., 1987)
- Figure of 8 (Shearsman, 1988)
- Child Eating Snow (Exile Editions Ltd., 1994)
- Solo With Grazing Deer (Exile Editions Ltd., 2001)
- Departures (Shearsman, 2003)
- Asterisks (Exile Editions Ltd., 2007)
- To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill [2] edited by Michael McGriff (Truman State University Press, 2010)
References
- ^ a b "English Professor David Wevill publishes new book of poetry". Department of English: News. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ "David Anthony Wevill". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
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