Background
Jarman, Mark Foster was born on June 5, 1952 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States. Son of Donald Ray and Bo Dee (Foster) Jarman.
Mark Foster Jarman
June 5, 1952 Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States
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.
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The Black Riviera (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explo...)
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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Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past)
( This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life...)
This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth’s history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet’s long history.
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The Reaper Essays
(Book by Jarman, Mark, McDowell, Robert)
Book by Jarman, Mark, McDowell, Robert
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Questions For Ecclesiastes
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Questions for Ecclesiastes / Poems
(GREAT BOOK!)
GREAT BOOK!
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Unholy Sonnets
(Poetry, Literary Studies)
Poetry, Literary Studies
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The Secret of Poetry
( First collection of literary essays by a founder and le...)
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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Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
( 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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[(Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry)] [Author: Mark Jarman] published on (August, 2002)
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Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
(By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scri...)
By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scriptures, three authors lead us in the quest for truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
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The Secret of Poetry
( First collection of literary essays by a founder and le...)
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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Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
(By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scri...)
By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scriptures, three authors lead us in the quest for truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 2: Red Flood (Dejah Thoris & Green Men of Mars Tp)
(- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hand...)
- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hands of the ravenous Thark, Voro. Now in hiding and mutilated, Voro is behind a terror campaign that threatens to destroy the peace that John Carter brought to red and green inhabitants of Barsoom. The violent Green Martian dreams of the streets of Helium flowing with the blood of its people. Traumatized, isolated, and fighting eons of race hatred, Dejah Thoris must stop the villain's red flood!
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 2: Red Flood (Dejah Thoris & Green Men of Mars Tp)
(- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hand...)
- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hands of the ravenous Thark, Voro. Now in hiding and mutilated, Voro is behind a terror campaign that threatens to destroy the peace that John Carter brought to red and green inhabitants of Barsoom. The violent Green Martian dreams of the streets of Helium flowing with the blood of its people. Traumatized, isolated, and fighting eons of race hatred, Dejah Thoris must stop the villain's red flood!
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 3: Red Trigger
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She's faced the cannibal Thark, Voro, and he's dead. She's stopped his plot to terrorize Helium and destroy the peace between red and green people. Now, consumed with survivor's guilt, Dejah Thoris does something beyond reckless: joins a team of Thark warriors formerly under Voro's command for a suicide mission. The Princess poses as their slave to infiltrate a savage tribe of green Warhoons trekking across the Barsoomian desert to an ancient, unearthed weapon. Vastly outnumbered, they must stop the Warhoon lunatics from activating it with a psychic in their midst - and turning it on Helium! Collects the final story arc (issues #9-12) from the Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars comic book series, complete with a pin-up gallery featuring the entire gorgeous selection of variant cover artwork.
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- Rote Walker (Book by Jarman, Mark)
Other Work
- Author: Iris, 1992, The Black Riviera, 1990, second edition, 1995, Far and Away, 1985, The Rote Walker, 1981, North Sea, 1978, second edition, 1989, The Reaper Essays, 1996, Questions for Ecclesiastes, 1997, Unholy Sonnets, 2000, The Secret of Poetry, 2001, Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry, 2002, To the Green Man, 2004, Epistles, 2007. Editor: Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, 1996.
Mark Foster Jarman Edit Profile
Mark Foster Jarman, American language educator. Winner Poets' prize, 1991, Lenore Marshall Poetry prize, Academy of America Poets and The Nation Magazine,1998; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation poetry fellow, 1991-1992, Robert Frost fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1985: National Education Association grantee, 1977, 83, 92; recipient Joseph Henry Jackson award San Francisco Foundation, 1974. Member of National Book Critics Cir.
Education
Bachelor, University California, Santa Cruz, 1974. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1976.
Career
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.
Works
book
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Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
( Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the ...)
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Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
(By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scri...)
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Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
(By combining scientific and historical analysis with Scri...)
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Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past)
( This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life...)
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The Secret of Poetry
( First collection of literary essays by a founder and le...)
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The Secret of Poetry
( First collection of literary essays by a founder and le...)
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 2: Red Flood (Dejah Thoris & Green Men of Mars Tp)
(- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hand...)
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 2: Red Flood (Dejah Thoris & Green Men of Mars Tp)
(- Dejah Thoris has survived a horrific ordeal at the hand...)
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Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars Volume 3: Red Trigger
(She's faced the cannibal Thark, Voro, and he's dead. She'...)
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The Black Riviera (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explo...)
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The Reaper Essays
(Book by Jarman, Mark, McDowell, Robert)
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Unholy Sonnets
(Poetry, Literary Studies)
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Rote Walker
(Book by Jarman, Mark)
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Questions for Ecclesiastes / Poems
(GREAT BOOK!)
- Questions For Ecclesiastes
- [(Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry)] [Author: Mark Jarman] published on (August, 2002)
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Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
Other Work
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Author: Iris, 1992, The Black Riviera, 1990, second edition, 1995, Far and Away, 1985, The Rote Walker, 1981, North Sea, 1978, second edition, 1989, The Reaper Essays, 1996, Questions for Ecclesiastes, 1997, Unholy Sonnets, 2000, The Secret of Poetry, 2001, Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry, 2002, To the Green Man, 2004, Epistles, 2007. Editor: Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, 1996.
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Member National Book Critics Circuit.
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Married Amy Lynn Kane, December 28, 1974. Children: Claire Marie, Zoe Anne.
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1976 - 1978
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1980 - 1983
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1983 - 1986
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Winner Poets' prize, 1991, Lenore Marshall Poet Winner Poets' prize, 1991, Lenore Marshall Poetry prize, Academy of America Poets and The Nation Magazine,1998. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation poetry fellow, 1991-1992, Robert Frost fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1985: National Education Association grantee, 1977, 83, 92. Recipient Joseph Henry Jackson award San Francisco Foundation, 1974.
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Winner Poets' prize, 1991, Lenore Marshall Poet Winner Poets' prize, 1991, Lenore Marshall Poetry prize, Academy of America Poets and The Nation Magazine,1998. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation poetry fellow, 1991-1992, Robert Frost fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1985: National Education Association grantee, 1977, 83, 92. Recipient Joseph Henry Jackson award San Francisco Foundation, 1974.