Jonathan Aaron

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Nationality United States Awards National Poetry Series Role Poet		Name Jonathan Aaron Occupation Poet, Teacher, Author

Born 1941 (age 73–74) Northampton, Massachusetts Known for Books: "Second Sight", "Journey to the Lost City", "The End Out of the Past", "Corridor" Books Second Sight, Journey to the lost city, Corridor Education University of Chicago, Yale University

Jonathan Aaron is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of Chicago and Yale University Ph.D.

His work has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of books, The Boston Globe (as guest reviewer), and The Times Literary Supplement.

Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1988, Mr. Aaron has been an Associate Professor at Emerson College in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. In Fall of 2007, Mr. Aaron was visiting poet-in-residence at Williams College.

Awards

His work has received many honors, including Fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts.

His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry five times.

1975-1976 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

Works

"The End of Out of the Past", pō’ĭ-trē

"Acting Like a Tree". The New Yorker. December 15, 2008.

"The Voice from Paxos". The New York Review of Books. August 16, 1990.

Poetry books

Journey to the Lost City. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-30-4.

Corridor. Wesleyan University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8195-1203-1.

Second sight: poems. Harper & Row. 1982. ISBN 978-0-06-014969-7.

Translation

Ann Kjellberg, ed. (2000). Collected poems in English / Joseph Brodsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-52838-6.

Anthology

Harold Bloom, David Lehman, ed. (1998). "Dance Mania". The best of the best American poetry, 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84779-5.

Reviews

“Dreaming is after all a kind of thinking,” Jonathan Aaron writes in this new volume, his third in almost 25 years, and it’s hard to imagine a more succinct statement of his poetic method. Aaron has always used the peculiar instability of poems to his advantage: he builds tension from a poem’s ability to slip on no more than a phrase from the real to the symbolic, from the hypothetical to the unalterable.

References

Jonathan Aaron Wikipedia

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