Background
McClatchy, J. D. was born on August 12, 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of J. Donald and Mary Jane (Hayden) McClatchy.
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What are poets looking "at," looking "for," when they walk into a room of pictures? "Poets on Painters" attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force.
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Since the publication of Hazmat, a book about the life of the body—short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize—J. D. McClatchy’s poetry has increasingly taken up the life of the soul. Now in verse as quicksilver as it is authoritative, he returns to themes he has touched on before, but from a new or unusual perspective—focusing on the frame rather than the picture, the tear rather than the sorrow. The title poem captures the nervous energy and aloneness surrounding the figure of Mercury, while the stunning long poem “Sorrow in 1944” tells the tale of the grown child of Madame Butterfly. McClatchy’s impulse is to tell the story after the story, the minor opera in the shadows of a great one that nonetheless tells its own tale of the heart, bearing its own measure of tragedy and hope. With its emotional range, maturity, and formal elegance, Mercury Dressing is the finest work to date from one of our most significant poets. Mercury Dressing To steal a glance and, anxious, see Him slipping into transparency— The feathered helmet already in place, Its shadow fallen across his face (His hooded sex its counterpart)— Unsteadies the routines of the heart. If I reach out and touch his wing, What harm, what help might he then bring? But suddenly he disappears, As so much else has down the years . . . Until I feel him deep inside The emptiness, preoccupied. His nerve electrifies the air. His message is his being there.
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This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott
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Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.
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HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation familiar from signs at the entrances to long dark tunnels or on the sides of suspicious containers. Here, in a series of stunning poems, J. D. McClatchy examines the first hazmat we all encounter: our own bodies. The virtuosic “Tattoos” meditates on why we decorate the body’s surface, while other poems plunge daringly inward, capturing the way in which everything that makes us human–desire and decay, need and curiosity, the jarring sense of loss and mortality–hovers in the flesh. In the midst of it all is the heart, its treacheries, its gnawing grievances, its boundless capacities. With their stark titles (“Cancer,” “Feces,” “Jihad”), McClatchy’s poems work dazzling variations on this book’s theme: how we live with the fact that we will die. Crowned by the twenty-part sequence “Motets,” which deals out an exquisite hand of emotional crises, this collection brings us a sumptuous weave of impassioned thought and clear-sighted feeling. Holding up a powerful poetic mirror, McClatchy shows us our very selves in a chilling series of images: the melodrama of the body being played out, as it must be, in the theater of the spirit. From the Hardcover edition.
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McClatchy, J. D. was born on August 12, 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of J. Donald and Mary Jane (Hayden) McClatchy.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Georgetown University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1974.
Instructor English department, LaSalle College, Philadelphia, 1968-1971;
assistant Professor of English department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1974-1981;
lecturer English department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1983, 86-87;
writer-in-residence, City College of New York, 1982;
writer-in-residence Poetry Center, 92d St. Young Men’s Christian Association, New York City, 1983-1984;
workshop leader Poetry Center, 92d St. Young Men’s Christian Association, New York City, 1982-1991;
lecturer Creative Writing program, English department, Princeton University, 1981-1987, 89-93;
editor, The Yale Review, New Haven, since 1991. Poet-in-residence Southampton Writers Conference, 1988. Lecturer Master of Fine Arts Parsons/New School, 1989, English department Rutgers University, 1989, writing division Columbia University, 1989, 92.
Visiting Professor of English department University of California at Los Angeles, 1990, 92. Selection committee Connecticut Poetry Circuit.
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(Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and ...)
(HAZMAT, meaning “hazardous material,” is an abbreviation ...)
(Since the publication of Hazmat, a book about the life of...)
(This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry antholo...)
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Academy of Arts and Letters (president since 2009), Academy American Poets (chancellor 1996-2003, board directors since 2003), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu.