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Name
  
Sidney Goldfarb


Role
  
Poet

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Books
  
The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays, Speech, for instance, Messages

Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942 in Peabody, Massachusetts) is a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to teach there today. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1968), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1970), a Goethe Foundation Grant (1984), and multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Sidney Goldfarb Sidney Goldfarb English University of Colorado Boulder

Books

  • Speech, for Instance (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
  • Messages (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
  • Curve in the Road (poetry), Halty-Ferguson, 1980
  • The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays (poetic theater), Barrytown-Station Hill, 2008

    • Plays

    (Dates indicate first production)

  • Pedro Páramo (adapted from the novel by Juan Rulfo), 1979
  • Huerfano, 1980
  • Tristan: A Retelling, 1983
  • Hot Lunch Apostles, 1983
  • The Transposed Heads (adapted with Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann, with music by Elliot Goldenthal), 1984
  • Big Mouth, 1985
  • Orange Grove, 1988
  • Music Rescue Service, 1991
  • The Rushes of Tulsa, 1999
  • Bad Women, 2000

    • References

    Sidney Goldfarb Wikipedia
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