Barbara Jordan (poet)

Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet.

Life

She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director.[1][2]

Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,[4] Harvard Review.

Awards

Works

  • Tutelary poems. Radio Cologne.
  • Channel. Beacon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8070-6809-0.
  • Trace elements. Penguin Books. 1998.

Essays

  • "Vision as Appetite: Clampitt as Naturalist". Antietam Review. xii. Spring 1992. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06.

Reviews

Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:

"Consciousness as landscape, /
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"

The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V61N3/cn-acts.html
  2. ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/currents/V26/V26N5/story7.html
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
  4. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=&submit.x=43&submit.y=5&submit=Submit&bylquery=barbara+jordan&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=
  5. ↑ DAVID YEZZI (June 1, 1999). "Trace Elements.(Review)". Poetry.
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