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Jarman, Mark Foster was born on June 5, 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States. Son of Donald Ray and Bo Dee (Foster) Jarman.
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First collection of literary essays by a founder and leading poet-critic of the New Narrative/New Formalist revival. Essays explore the relationship between poetry and religion, the legacies of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, E. A. Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, and poetry by contemporaries such as Donald Justice and Jorie Graham. Mark Jarman's honors for poetry include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets' Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and three NEA fellowships. Co-author of The Reaper Essays and co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, Jarman lives in Nashville and teaches at Vanderbilt University.
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Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explores the redemptive power of the imagination and the ways in which we transform experience into stories we tell about our lives. His characters vividly express the will to cling to existence and understand it as they pursue the meaning of family, home, identity, and love. Invented memories resurrect a forgotten past, opening doors of possibility and adding a strange richness to everyday life. "Flowers of the flesh, / Hung on the cliffs to watch and be watched./ Don't let me see reproach, don't let me see it, / In your eyes. Let me be the only one/ Who knows and tells you
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( Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the ...)
Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the lyric sequence Unholy Sonnets, is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry. In Body and Soul he considers poetry from the Renaissance to the present in essays that touch on the importance of religion, place, and personal experience to poetry and reflect Jarman's particular interests. His focus is on the relationship between lyric and narrative, song and story, in poems of all kinds. He considers the poem as a record of both body and soul, and examines his own life, in an extended autobiographical essay, as a source for the stories he has told in his poetry. The essays "Where Poems Take Place" and "A Shared Humanity" consider the relation between setting or situation and representation. The psychological roots of narrative are considered in "The Primal Storyteller." But the main interest of these essays is how and why narrative is used as a form. The influence of Robinson Jeffers's style of narrative is argued in "Slip, Shift, and Speed Up: The Influence of Robinson Jeffers's Narrative Syntax." In "The Trace of a Story Line" an argument is made that the poets Philip Levine and Charles Wright employ narration or storytelling in their poetry as a mode of meaning. Other essays consider Donald Davie, Philip Larkin, Herbert Lomas, Louis Simpson, Lyn Hejinian, Tess Gallagher, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Mark Jarman's poetry has appeared in many publications, including the American Poetry Review and the New Yorker. He has won the Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize of the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim fellowship, and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor of English, Vanderbilt University.
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(Winner--1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Finalist--1997 ...)
Winner--1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Finalist--1997 National Book Critics Circle Award "In Questions for Ecclesiastes, Mark Jarman takes on the idea of holiness in an unholy world, of spiritual realities in secular America... His poems made me think of altars, the kind we sometimes make unconsciously on a side-table or dresser where we deposit sea shells, pebbles, lost buttons, and other interesting finds, arranging them just so, as if to make an offering to an unknown god."-Charles Simic, Judge, The Academy of American Poets "A devout and learned exploration of the absence and silence of God."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "In this deeply impressive collection, Jarman is concerned with God, His grace, and humans' relations with Him... In 20 'Unholy Sonnets,' he takes up matters of theology directly and so appositely for these times that some of them may become pulpit as well as anthology staples."-Ray Olson, Booklist "An A+ level candidate for glory, so peculiar in the excellence and pleasure it offers as to baffle anyone in the business of awarding laurels."-The Hudson Review "Inverting Donne's 'Holy Sonnets' in his ironic 20-poem 'Unholy Sonnets' sequence, Jarman's tone is discursive instead of devotional, comic instead of firm. The sonnets...explore faith with a sense of inevitability. Yet they are less about God than about our relationship to God and our inability to understand God's judgement."-The Boston Book Review "Memorable for its section 'Unholy Sonnets'...Questions for Ecclesiastes ultimately captures a poet's challenge to God: Are you there, or aren't you?"-Seattle Weekly
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Poetry, Literary Studies
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Jarman, Mark Foster was born on June 5, 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States. Son of Donald Ray and Bo Dee (Foster) Jarman.
Bachelor, University California, Santa Cruz, 1974. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1976.
Instructor, Indiana State University, Evansville, 1976-1978; visiting lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1979-1980; assistant Professor of English, Murray (Kentucky) State University, 1980-1983; assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1983-1986; associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1986-1992; Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1992. Member Associated Writing Programs, Norfolk, Virginia, since 1980, Poets' Prize Committee, New York City, since 1988.
(Winner--1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Finalist--1997 ...)
( Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the ...)
( First collection of literary essays by a founder and le...)
(Winner of the The Poets’ Prize (1990) Yet, these are ult...)
(Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explo...)
(Book by Jarman, Mark, McDowell, Robert)
(Poetry, Literary Studies)
(Book by Jarman, Mark)
Member National Book Critics Circuit.
Married Amy Lynn Kane, December 28, 1974. Children: Claire Marie, Zoe Anne.
