Nominations Dana Award in Poetry | ||
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Books Unspeakable Things, With Robert Lowell an, A History of Yearning: Poems, Flying inland, The beds we lie in Similar Robert Pinsky, Mark Pawlak, Jimmy Tingle | ||
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Kathleen Spivack (Drucker) (born 1938 in New York, NY) is an American poet and author.
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Doug holder interviews novelist kathleen spivack unspeakable things
Life
Spivack was born in New York, NY, and was raised in North Bennington, VT. The eldest daughter of Peter Drucker, at an early age she developed a love for writing and literature. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1959 and won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell.
Her writing has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, some of her work has been translated into French. Publications include The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni, New Letters, and many others
She has held posts at the University of Paris VII-VIII, the University of Francoise Rabelais, Tours, the University of Versailles, and at the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique). She was a Fulbright Senior Artist/Professor in Creative Writing in France (1993-95).
Awards
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Reception of books
Spivack's books have received mixed reviews. With Unspeakable Things Kirkus Reviews wrote "Well written but ill-conceived." and Publishers Weekly describes it as an "overly ambitious, occasionally lyrical novel." However, Paste called it "at once jarring, magical and undoubtedly essential." It was also reviewd by The Washington Times, Star Tribune, and Boston Globe.