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John Taggart (born 1942) is an American poet and critic.

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Biography

He was born in Guthrie Center, Iowa. He graduated with honors in 1965 from Earlham College in Indiana, earning a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy. In 1966 he received a M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Chicago, and in 1974 he completed a Ph.D. in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Syracuse University.[1]

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Taggart was the editor and publisher of Maps, an acclaimed literary magazine. In 1978, edited an issue of "Truck" devoted to the work of Theodore Enslin. His work has been widely published and anthologized, and as far back as 1978 his unique style was exerting an influence over his peers, poets such as Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Gil Ott.[2]

For many years he was Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University; he retired in 2001.[3]

Overview

Taggart's approach to the poem is strongly rooted in Objectivist poetics, particularly the works of Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen.[4] Unlike most others of his generation whose poetries sprung from similar influences, Taggart stayed away from, on the one hand, the mainstream variations of the neatly packaged imagistic poem, and, on the other hand, the aggressively language-centered writing that foregrounded the materiality of text over the voice of the author.[5]

Works

Poetry

  • To Construct a Clock (Elizabeth Press, 1971)
  • The Pyramid Is Pure Crystal (Elizabeth Press, 1974)
  • Prism and the Pine Twig (Elizabeth Press, 1977)
  • Dodeka (Membrane, 1979)
  • Peace On Earth (Turtle Island, 1981)
  • Dehiscence (Membrane, 1983)
  • Loop (Sun and Moon, 1991)
  • Standing Wave (Lost Roads, 1993)
  • When the Saints (Talisman House, 1999)
  • Pastorelles (Flood Editions, 2004)
  • Crosses: Poems 1992-1998 (Stop Press, 2006)
  • There Are Birds (Flood Editions, 2008)
  • Is Music: Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)

Prose

  • Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper (1993, SUNY Press)
  • Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (1994, University Alabama Press)

References

  1. ^ John Taggart Papers[permanent dead link].
  2. ^ Robert Duncan considers Taggarts poetics and influence in his introduction to Dodeka.
  3. ^ See The Necessary Word: A Tribute to John Taggart in FlashPoint magazine.
  4. ^ See John Taggart Papers[permanent dead link], "His dissertation, titled "Intending a Solid Object: A Study in Objectivist Poetics," was one of the first extended discussions of the compositional strategies informing the work of poets Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen." See also Two Approaches to John Taggart's "Slow Song for Mark Rothko" and "Inside Out" by Rochelle Ratner and Karl Young.
  5. ^ See Burt Kimmelman's "Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism", which discusses some of the ways in which Taggart's work eludes easy classification.

Sources

For further research see:

External links

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