David Ignatow biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of David Ignatow

Author Name:

David Ignatow

Born As:

David Ignatowsky

Other Names:

Born:

7 Feb 1914

Died:

17 Nov 1997




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Poet                          
Selected Works:

Poems - 1948
The Gentle Weightlifter - 1955
Say Pardon - 1962
Figures of the Human - 1964
Earth Hard: Selected Poems - 1968
Rescue the Dead - 1968
Poems: 1934-1969 - 1970
Facing the Tree - 1975
Selected Poems - 1975
Tread the Dark - 1978
Sunlight - 1979
Conversations - 1980
Whisper the Earth - 1981
Leaving the Door Open - 1984
New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 - 1986
Shadowing the Ground - 1991
Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems - 1991
Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934-1994 - 1994
The End Game and Other Stories - 1996
I Have a Name - 1996
At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties - 1998
Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems - BOA Editions - 1999.                          
                          
Honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort."

He received the Shelley Memorial Award 1966, the Frost Medal 1992, and the William Carlos Williams Award 1997, of the Poetry Society of America.