| 词条 | Howard W. Robertson |
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Howard W. Robertson (born September 19, 1947) is an American poet and novelist. Early lifeRobertson was born in Eugene, Oregon.[1] He married Margaret Collins on August 10, 1991 and has two daughters and two sons.[1] He received a B.A. in Russian (1970) and an M.A. in Comparative Literature (1978) from the University of Oregon as well as a Master's in Library Science (1975) from the University of Southern California.[1] Robertson is part-Cherokee. He was the Slavic Catalog Librarian and Bibliographer at the University of Oregon Library from 1975-1993.[1] He is a past President of the Lane Literary Guild.[1] He has been a full-time poet since 1993.[1] Robertson was a long-haul truck driver in the American West during 1994-1995.[2][3] Public presenceHe is a 2007 Jack Straw Writer with Jack Straw Productions in Seattle, Washington.[4][5] Robertson read his poems at the 2007 Burning Word Festival.[6] Robertson was the Poet-in-Residence at the Henry Art Gallery on the University of Washington campus in Seattle during April 2010.[7] He gave a reading with other Native American authors at Tsunami Books in Eugene, Oregon, during November, 2010.[8] Eric Alan interviewed Robertson on NPR-Living Large on April 18, 2013.[9] Robertson gave a reading as part of the Third Saturday Reading Series at Tsunami Books in Eugene, Oregon, on April 20, 2013.[10] He was interviewed about his novel, Peculiar Pioneer, on KLCC FM on December 4, 2013 and a recording of this interview is available on the KLCC website.[11] Together with his wife Margaret Robertson, he gave a joint reading about sustainability at Tsunami Books in Eugene, Oregon, on April 5, 2014.[12][13] Robertson read from Peculiar Pioneer at the inaugural reading of the Lane Writers Reading Series in Eugene, Oregon, on September 28, 2014.[14] Robertson read his long, philosophical poem, "Quantum intimations at the grand Multnomah", at the River Road Annex in Eugene, Oregon, on January 25, 2015.[15] Robertson read his long, philosophical poem, "Hope speaks of life on Earth", at the Lane Community College Downtown Campus in Eugene, Oregon, on December 1, 2016.[16] WorksRobertson defines poetry broadly as an inclusive genre, referring to the archaic meaning of "poem": a made thing, ποίημα.[17] He consequently considers each of his poems to be an ode, a fiction, an essay, an abstract painting and a jazz improvisation.[17] He describes his poetry as a mimesis of the streaming of Being through Nonbeing.[17] He intends a continuous poetic flow that pauses but seldom stops, so that his line-breaks become purely visual and do not halt the progress of the poetic line when spoken.[17] He means for his poetry to affirm with Aristotle that truth is most universally told through a blend of fictional and factual material.[17] He conceives each poem as an essay of existential discovery, an enterprising foray into the discursive wilderness.[17] He maintains that his poetry portrays visually the drift and swirl of the things themselves and the interconnected chiaroscuro of shadowy essence and shimmering everydayness.[17] He bases his work on the belief that reality never fails and that the phenomenal revelatory streaming of its representation in his poetry is authentic.[17] He credits Heidegger, Whitman, Pushkin, Bashō, Cervantes, Montaigne and Ovid as his major influences.[17] His first book of poems was titled to the fierce guard in the Assyrian Saloon in 1987.[18] His second book of poems was titled Ode to certain interstates and Other Poems.[19] His third book of poems was titled The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi.[20] His fourth book of poems, The Gaian Odes, won the Sinclair Poetry Prize.[21][22] His fifth book of poems was Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil.[23] His sixth book of poems was Odes to the Ki of the Universe.[24] His seventh book of poems was The Green Force of Spring.[25] His eighth book of poems was Ode to Certain Interstates.[26] His ninth book of poems was Odes to the Ki of the Universe.[27] His first novel was Peculiar Pioneer.[28] He published a book of stories, Hyperzotica.[29] His tenth book of poems was Hope Speaks.[30] His second novel was Love in the Cretaceous.[31] List of publications in journals and anthologies
AwardsRobertson's poetry won him the Tor House Robinson Jeffers Prize in 2003,[32] the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Prize at Slippery Rock University in 2006,[33] the Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press in 2009,[34] and the Atlanta Reviews International Merit Award in 2014.[35] He won the Bumbershoot Writers-in-Performance Award in 1993, the Pacifica Award in 1995 and the Literal Latte Award in 1997.[1] Reviews
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 [https://books.google.com/books?id=sbjbBSNoKdgC&dq=%22international+who's+who%22+poets+centre&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=XMndKeVvii&sig=Ub7jxwWIkmtKGcjy3Dy9YpYL8iU#PRA1-PA438,M1 International Who's Who in Poetry and Poet's Encyclopedia, p. 438] 2. ^"Cut to the Heart" by Barry Johnson (The Oregonian, February 22, 2004; pp. D7-D8) 3. ^"Ode Writer Has New Book" by Paul Denison (The Register-Guard, March 28, 2004; p. G2). 4. ^2007 Jack Straw Writers Program - Allison Green 5. ^Jack Straw Literary Podcasts 6. ^Burning Word Festival 2007 7. ^Henry Art Gallery 8. ^Register Guard 9. ^NPR-Living Large interview 10. ^{{YouTube|e3JE7dXG7lY|Tsunami Books' Third Saturday Reading Series}} 11. ^Peculiar Pioneer 12. ^{{YouTube|ssZTC-55Fo0|Sustainability Prose & Poetry Reading, part 1}} 13. ^{{YouTube|XElC9nY_97A|Sustainability Prose & Poetry Reading, part 2}} 14. ^Eugene Weekly 15. ^[https://lanewrs.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/lane-writers-reading-series-on-january-25-2015/ Lane Writers Reading Series] 16. ^[https://lanecws.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/lane-community-writers-series-on-december-1-2016/ Lane Community Writers Series] 17. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Howard W. Robertson (2007) "Fragments of a Manifesto" The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi. Backwater Press. pp. 89-91 18. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Guard-Assyrian-Saloon/dp/0916272338/ to the fierce guard in the Assyrian Saloon] 19. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Ode-Certain-Interstates-Other-Poems/dp/0972323422/ Ode to certain interstates and Other Poems] 20. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Bricolage-Kotegaeshi-Howard-W-Robertson/dp/097939340X/ The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi] 21. ^Sinclair Poetry Prize 22. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Gaian-Odes-Howard-W-Robertson/dp/0982010516/ The Gaian Odes] 23. ^Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil 24. ^Odes to the Ki of the Universe 25. ^The Green Force of Spring 26. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Ode-Certain-Interstates-Howard-Robertson/dp/1624620388/ Ode to Certain Interstates] 27. ^[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1624620434 Odes to the Ki of the Universe, 2nd ed.] 28. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Peculiar-Pioneer-Howard-W-Robertson/dp/1624620442/ Peculiar Pioneer] 29. ^Hyperzotica 30. ^[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1624621376 Hope Speaks] 31. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Love-Cretaceous-Howard-W-Robertson/dp/1681143321 Love in the Cretaceous] 32. ^Tor House Poetry Prize 2003 33. ^Welcome to SlabLitMag.com - V2 34. ^Sinclair Poetry Prize 35. ^Atlanta Review External links
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