Background
Ponsot, Marie was born on April 6, 1921 in New York City. Daughter of William Xavier and Marie Candee Birmingham.
(From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this l...)
From the award-winning author of The Bird Catcher, this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion. The book opens with a group of new poems, including “What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up?”—a question that has kept Ponsot’s work vital for more than five decades. Throughout the selections from her four earlier books and a trove of previously unpublished work covering the years 1946 to 1971, she offers us a “lost haven in a springing world.” Sometimes sharp in her self-perception, but always listing toward pleasure and elegance, unafraid of grief and the passage of time, Ponsot continually refreshes her language and the spirited self from which it emerges. From the Hardcover edition.
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Ponsot, Marie was born on April 6, 1921 in New York City. Daughter of William Xavier and Marie Candee Birmingham.
Bachelor, St. Joseph's College, 1940. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1941. Doctor (honorary), St. Joseph's College, 2000.
She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. After graduating from Saint Joseph"s College for Women in Brooklyn, Ponsot earned her master"s degree in seventeenth-century literature from Columbia University. The couple lived in Paris for three years, during which time they had a daughter.
The couple had six sons before divorcing.
Upon returning from France, Ponsot worked as a freelance writer of radio and television scripts. She also translated 69 children"s books from the French, including The Fables of Louisiana Fontaine.
She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, Beat Not the Poor Desk and Common Sense. Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. She has also taught at the Young Men’s Christian Association, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.
Ponsot lives in New York City.
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Married Claude Ponsot, December 16, 1948 (divorced September 1970). Children: Monique, Denis, Antoine, William, Christopher, Matthew, Gregory.