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Barbara Jordan (poet)

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Barbara Jordan
Born1949
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Occupation(s)Poet, Academic
EmployerUniversity of Rochester
Known forPoetry, Academic Work
Notable workTutelary poems, Channel, Trace elements
Awards1989 Barnard Women Poets Prize

Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet and academic. She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director.[1][2] Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,[4] Harvard Review.

Awards

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Works

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  • Tutelary poems. Radio Cologne.
  • Channel. Beacon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8070-6809-0.
  • Trace elements. Penguin Books. 1998.

Essays

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Reviews

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Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:

"Consciousness as landscape, /
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"

The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Rochester Review V61 N3--Class Notes". www.rochester.edu.
  2. ^ "Currents--March 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu.
  3. ^ "The Paris Review - Winter II 1989". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
  4. ^ "Search : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  5. ^ DAVID YEZZI (June 1, 1999). "Trace Elements.(Review)". Poetry.[dead link]
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