1957 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 |
| Years in literature: | 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Howl obscenity trial in San Francisco brings significant attention to beat poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg
- This year, Ginsberg surprised the literary world by abandoning San Francisco. After a spell in Morocco, he and Peter Orlovsky moved to Paris at the suggestion of Gregory Corso, who introduced them to a shabby lodging house above a bar at 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur, where they were soon joined by William Burroughs and others, including young painters, writers and black Jazz musicians. The building became known as the Beat Hotel. The writers' time there became a productive, creative period for many of them. There, Ginseberg would finished his poem "Kaddish", Corso composed "Bomb" and "Marriage", and Burroughs (with Ginsberg and Corso's help) put together "Naked Lunch", from previous writings. Corso returned to New York in 1958. The "hotel" closed in 1963. Ginsberg and Orlovsky left for travels to India in 1967.
- Shi'r ("Poetry") magazine is founded in Beirut by Syrian-born poets Yusuf al-Khal and Ali Ahmad Said (a.k.a. Adonis)[1] The journal is a showcase for experimental Arabic poetry as well as translations of poetry from European languages.[2]
- Black Mountain Review literary magazine folds.[3]
[edit] Works published in English
- Donald Hall, Robert Pack and Louis Simpson, New Poets of England and America, anthology (Meridian Books)
[edit] Canada
- Harry Ammos, Churchill and Other Poems
- Dick Diespecker, Windows West
- Joan Finnegan, through The Glass, Darkly
- Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, literary theory (Princeton University Press)
- Gordon Leclaire, Carpenter's Apprentice
- Dorothy Livesay, Selected Poems, 1926-1956
- Goodridge Macdonald, Recent Poems
- Jay Macpherson, The Boatman
- A. J. M. Smith, The Book of Canadian Poetry, third revised edition (anthology)[4]
[edit] New Zealand
- James K. Baxter:
- The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing , a parody, imitating 17 New Zealand poets, which was greeted with acrimony by some fellow poets
- James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman, The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love, Wellington: Capricorn Press
- Charles Brasch: The Estate, and Other Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press[5]
- Allen Curnow, Poems 1949–57 [6]
- Louis Johnson, New Worlds for Old[7]
- W. H. Oliver, Fire Without Phoenix: Poems 1946–1954, Christchurch: Caxton Press
[edit] United Kingdom
- Dannie Abse, Tenants of the House, London: Hutchinson[8]
- Kingsley Amis, A Case of Samples, New York: Harcourt Brace
- George Barker, collected works
- Edmund Blunden, collected works
- Norman Cameron, collected works (posthumous)
- Charles Causley, Union Street
- Donald Davie, A Winter Talent, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Selected Poems of H.D.
- Kenneth Fearing, New and Selected Poems
- Thom Gunn, The Sense of Movement, London: Faber and Faber; University of Chicago Press[8]
- Ted Hughes, The Hawk in the Rain, including "The Thought Fox", London: Faber and Faber; New York: Harper[8]
- James Kirkup, The Descent into the Cave
- C. Day Lewis, Pegasus
- Louis MacNeice, Visitations
- Norman McCaig, The Sinai Sort, London: Hogarth Press[8]
- Edith Sitwell, collected works
- C. A. Trypanis, The Stones of Troy
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- T. S. Eliot, On Poetry and Poets
[edit] United States
- W. H. Auden, The Old Man's Road
- Richard Eberhart, Great Praises
- Robert Fitzgerald, In the Rose of Time
- Robert E. Howard, Always Comes Evening
- William Meredith, The Open Sea and Other Poems
- W. S. Merwin, Green with Beasts
- Marianne Moore, Like a Bulwark
- Howard Moss, A Swimmer in the Air
- Ogden Nash, You Can't Get There from Here
- Marie Ponsot, True Minds
- Kenneth Rexroth, In Defense of the Earth
- Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, LP record, Poetry Readings in the Cellar (with the Cellar Jazz Quintet): Kenneth Rexroth & Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fantasy #7002 LP (Spoken Word)
- Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
- Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, edited by Samuel French Morse (posthumous)
- Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954-1956
- James Wright, The Green Wall
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound, the first guide to Pound's Cantos
- William Carlos Williams, The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirwall
- William Butler Yeats, Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats, edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, New York: Macmillan (posthumous)[9]
[edit] Other in English
- D. Stewart and N. Keesing, editors, Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times, anthology (Australia)[10]
[edit] Works in other languages
[edit] Portuguese language
[edit] Portugal
- Mário Cesariny, Pena Capital
[edit] Brazil
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Fala,amendoeira and Ciclo
[edit] French language
[edit] Canada
- Claude Fournier, Le Ciel fermé
- Pierre Trotier, Poèmes de Russie
- Reginald Boisvert, Le Temps de vivre
- Maurice Beaulieu, À glaise fendre
- Jean-Guy Pilon, L'Homme et le Jour
- Rina Lasnier, Présence de l'absence
[edit] France
- Saint John Perse, Amers
- Fernand Gregh, Le mal du monde
- Alain Bosquet, Premier Testament
- Frances de Dalmatie, Anamorphose
[edit] German language
[edit] Germany
- Peter Gan, Schachbrett
- Margot Scharpenberg, Gefährliche Uebung
- Benno von Weise, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik: Form und Geschichte. Interpretationen ("German poetry: Form and history. Interpretations"), two volumes, Düsseldorf (criticism)[11]
[edit] Hebrew
- N. Alterman, Ir ha-Yona ("City of the Dove")
- Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirai ha-Kodesh le-Moshe Ibn Ezra ("The Sacred Poems of Moses Ibn Ezra"), edited by Simon Bernstein, the first comprehensive collection
- Ephraim Lisitzky, Negohot ma-Arafel ("Light through the Mist")
- Yaakov Schteinberg, Kol Kitvai Yaakov Schteinberg ("Complete Works")
- A. Zeitlin, Ben ha-Esh ve-Hayesha ("Between Fire and Redemption")
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Spain
- V. Aleixandre, Mis poemas mejores (1956)
- Gabriel Celaya, De claro en claro
- R. Montesino, La soledad y los días
- R. Pombo, Poesías completas
- María C. Lacaci, Humana voz (winner of the 1956 Adonais Prize)
- J. Guillén, "Lugar de Lázaro" (fragment of Clamor)
- J.R. Jiménez:
- Libros en poesía
- Tercera antología poética
[edit] Anthologies
- R. Menendez Pidal, editor, Espana y su historia
- J.M. Blecua, Floresta lírica espanola
[edit] Latin America
- Jacinto Cordero Espinosa, Despojamiento
- Pablo Neruda:
- Viajes
- Nuevas odas elementales
- Amado Nervo:
- complete poetic works (publisher: Aguilar)
- Pensamientos (publisher: Barcelona)
- Octavio Paz (Chile), Piedra de sol
- César Vallejo (Peru), collected poems (posthumous)
[edit] Yiddish
- Yankev Glatshteyn, Fun mayn gantser mi ("Of All My Labor, Selected Poems, 1919-1956")
- A. Leyeles, Baym fus fun barg ("At the Foot of the Mountain")
- Khos Kliger, Peyzazhn fun Yisroel ("Israel Landscapes")
[edit] Other languages
- Wisława Szymborska: Wołanie do Yeti ("Calling Out to Yeti"), Poland,
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- Governor General's Awards: Robert A.D. Ford, A Window on the North
- President's Medal for a single poem: Jay Macpherson, The Fisherman — A Book of Riddles
[edit] United Kingdom
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Siegfried Sassoon
- Guinness Poetry Awards: Vernon Watkins, The Tributary Seasons; Cecil Day-Lewis, Moods of Love; Roy Fuller, Seven Mythological Sonnets
[edit] United States
- National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Wilbur, Things of this World
- Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
- Bollingen Prize: Allen Tate
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Conrad Aiken
- Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry: May Swenson
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Award: James Wright for The Green Wall
[edit] Poetry Magazine awards
- Levinson Prize: Thom Gunn
- Oscar Blumenthal Prize: William Carlos Williams
- Eunice Tietjens Prize: James Wright
- Bess Hokin Prize: Philip Booth
- Union League Civic and Arts Foundation prize: Ann Ridler
- Vachel Lindsay Prize: V.R. Lang
- Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize: John Ciardi
[edit] Poetry Society of America awards
- Alexander Droutzkoy Memorial award: Mark Van Doren
- Walt Whitman Award: Fredson Bowers
- Reynolds Lyric Award: Frances Minturn Howard and David Ross
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award: Richard Wilbur
- William Rose Benet Memorial Award]]: Babette Deutsch
- Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award: John Hall Wheelock
- Poetry Chap-Book Award: Grover Smith, Jr.
- Emily S. Hamblen Memorial Award: Trianon Press of Paris for a work on William Blake
- Arthur Davison Ficke Memorial Award: Margaret Haley Carpenter, Leah Bodine Drake, Frances Minturn Howard, Ulrich Troubetzkoy
- Leonora Speyer Memorial Award: Lois Smith Hiers
- Annual Award: Joyce Horner
- Borestone Mountain Poetry Award: Eric Barker
[edit] Other
- Fastenrath Prize (Spain) for the best poetry published in the past four years: J. García Nieto, La red
[edit] Births
- April 23 — Bruce Meyer, Canadian poet and educator
- August 19 — Li-Young Lee American poet born in Jakarta, Indonesia to Chinese parents.
- date not known:
- Cyrus Cassells
- Afua Cooper, Jamaican-born Canadian dub poet, sociologist, and historian who migrated to Canada in 1980.
- Claudia Emerson, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Martín Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and Latino poetry.
- Essex Hemphill (died 1995), gay American poet and activist
- Uwe Kolbe, German[12]
- Anthony Molino
- Haris Vlavianos, Greek
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 — Gabriela Mistral, 67, Chilean
- April 22 — Roy Campbell, 56, South African poet and satirist
- March 28 — Christopher Morley, 66, American journalist, novelist, and poet
- August 13 — Joseph Warren Beach, American author, book critic and educator
- September 20 — Merrill Moore, 54, American psychiatrist and poet
- September 22 — Oliver St. John Gogarty, 79, Irish poet, writer, physician and ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, political figure of the Irish Free State, and now best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, of a heart attack
- October 26 — Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek
- Date not known:
- Skipwith Cannell (born 1887), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
- Charles Badger Clark
- Arthur R. D. Fairburn
[edit] Notes
- ^ Irwin, Robert, "An Arab Surrealist", The Nation, January 3, 2005, pp 23–24, 37–38
- ^ "An Arab Poet Who Dares to Differ" by Adam Shatz, The New York Times, July 13, 2002, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [[2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "The Contemporary Scene" in An Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1966 website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ a b c d M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Bibliographical Note", p. 130
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
