James Scully (poet)

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Name James Scully		Role Poet

Education University of Connecticut (1964) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, James Laughlin Award Books Line Break: Poetry as Social Pr, Donatello's Version, Apollo helmet, Raging Beauty, Angel in Flames: Selected

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James Scully (; born 1937, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American poet.

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Biography

James Scully attended Roman Catholic grammar and high schools. He was a beneficiary of the post–World War II economic expansion, including tuition-free access to a local teachers college. In 1964, supported by a National Defense Fellowship, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Recently he published a journal of impressions, incorporating historical information following a visit to the former Yugoslavia. This was published originally in Serbian translation. Azul Editions published the English language text: Vagabond Flags: Serbia & Kosovo (2009).

Angel in Flames: Selected Poems & Translations 1967-2011 is the most recent of eleven books of poems. A collection of critical essays, Line Break: Poetry As Social Practice (1988) was reissued in 2005 with a foreword by Adrienne Rich. The many translations and co-translations include Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (1975) with C J Herington, “The Complete Plays of Sophocles” (2011) with Robert Bagg, various Latin American texts plus Quechua texts or songs teased from Spanish translations. He was the founding editor of the Art on the Line series published by Curbstone Press: booklets of essays and interviews by 20th century artists and writers speaking to where their art and their social engagement interact.

Awards

Winner of the 1967 Lamont Award for "The Marches".

recipient of a 1973 Guggenheim Fellowships. "Santiago Poems".

Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts

Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (Rome, Italy 1962 - 1963)

Quechua Peoples Poetry, Winner of the 1977 Islands & Continents Translation Award

Jenny Taine Memorial Award

Bookbuilders of Boston Award for book cover design (“Apollo Helmet” 1983)

California State University, Chico has named a poetry reading series for him.

Works

"There Is No Truth to the Rumor; Donatello's Version". Logos Journal (7.1).

Poetry

Angel in Flames. Smokestack Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9564175-8-9.

Oceania. Azul Editions. 2008. ISBN 1-885214-51-0.

Donatello's Version. Curbstone Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-931896-31-3.

Boxcars (Azul Editions 2006)

Words Without Music (Privately Printed limited edition 2004)

Raging Beauty: Selected Poems. Azul Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9632363-7-1.

Apollo Helmet. Curbstone Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-915306-39-8.

Apollo Helmet. Curbstone Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-915306-38-1.

May day. Minnesota Review Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-936484-00-6.

Scrap Book. Ziesing Brothers. 1977. ISBN 978-0-917488-03-0.

Santiago Poems. Curbstone Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-915306-21-3.

Avenue of the Americas. University of Massachusetts Press. 1971. ISBN 978-0-87023-099-8.

Communications (with Grandin Conover, Poetry Signature Six, The Massachusetts review, 1970)

The Marches. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1967.

Translations

Sophocles (2011). Complete Plays of Sophocles. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-202034-5.

Teresa de Jesus (1979). De Repente / All Of A Sudden. Maria A. Proser and Arlene Scully.

Quechua Peoples Poetry. Maria A. Proser. Curbstone Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-915306-09-1.

Aeschylus (1975). Prometheus Bound. C. J. Herington, James Scully. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506165-9.

Essays

Vagabond Flags. Azul Editions. 2009. ISBN 978-1-885214-53-9.

Line Break:Poetry as Social Practice. Curbstone Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-931896-18-4.

Modern Poetics, a.k.a. Modern Poets on Modern Poetry. McGraw-Hill. 1965.

References

James Scully (poet) Wikipedia

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