Barbara Jordan (poet)

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Name Barbara Jordan		Role Poet

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Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet.

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Life

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

Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harvard Review.

Awards

1989 Barnard Women Poets Prize

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.'"

References

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