| 词条 | Eleanor Lerman |
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| name = Eleanor Lerman | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}} | birth_place = United States | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = American | citizenship = United States | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genres = Poetry, fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} Eleanor Lerman (born 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Life and careerLerman was born in the Bronx, and raised there and in Far Rockaway. She is a lifelong New Yorker,[1] and is of Jewish heritage.[2] Early yearsLerman wrote poetry while in high school, with the encouragement of a sympathetic teacher:
At age 18 she left home and moved from the Bronx to Greenwich Village, where she found an unusual job: Person wanted to sweep up in harpsichord factory. That was the ad in the Village Voice that I answered in 1970 when I was eighteen years old and looking for a job so I could support myself in the city, where I was headed to join the revolution. ...[4] Lerman's job was in a workshop, founded by Wolfgang Zuckermann, that produced and shipped kits from which amateurs built harpsichords, at the time a minor cultural phenomenon.
The active artistic surroundings of Greenwich Village led to her being recognized and encouraged as a poet. The film producer mentioned in the quotations given here was named Harrison Starr; he had been executive producer for the still-remembered countercultural film Zabriskie Point (1970).[8]
Armed Love and its aftermathThis volume, Armed Love, attracted positive critical attention and indeed was nominated for a National Book Award. Not all reviews were positive; X. J. Kennedy, writing in The New York Times, had harsh words for Lerman's technique as a poet and, more controversially, hinted at criticism of Lerman's choice of subject matter, which included illegal drugs and lesbian sexuality. Drawing on the recently introduced system of film ratings, Kennedy described Armed Love as "XX rated".[10] Lerman describes her experience of youthful fame as "devastating"—not as a result of Kennedy's criticism, but rather from the burden of notoriety it created:
Her fame also led Lerman to become acquainted with some of the leading literary figures of the time, which had a daunting effect on her morale:
Although Lerman published a second book in 1975, she eventually withdrew from her literary career and undertook a more conventional life with marriage and (nonliterary) job.[7] Resumption of writing careerMuch later (2001), her career as a writer resumed when Sarabande Books commissioned her third volume of poetry, The Mystery of Meteors. She reports a second "rescue", long after the first by her high school teacher; this was "by my current publisher Sarabande, who asked me, after a decades-long hiatus, if I'd like to try to write poetry again. It turned out that I would."[3] A steady stream of work has since followed, along with a variety of forms of recognition. Her fourth book, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2006, given by the American Academy of Poets and The Nation magazine. In awarding the prize, Tony Hoagland wrote, "Eleanor Lerman's poems have sociological savvy, philosophical rue, historical recognition, and vernacular resilience. They sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity."[13] For one of her books, The Blonde on the Train, the author has experimented with creating a web site devoted specifically to the book and its contents, including excerpts.[14] In her novel, Radiomen, Lerman ventures into speculative fiction with a story that involves radios, aliens, a bartender at Kennedy Airport, and a dog with unusual ancestry. Lerman lives in Long Beach, New York, just outside New York City and not far from her childhood community of Far Rockaway.[15] AwardsShe has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award,[16] and in 2006 her fiction collection "Observers and Other Stories" was published by the Lesbian publisher Artemis Press. Lerman is also the recipient of the inaugural Juniper Prize, the 2002 Joy Bale Boone Award for Poetry, the 2006 Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, and a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2007, she received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[17] In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[18] Lerman won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2016 for Radiomen and in 2018 received an American Fiction Award from American Book Fest for The Stargazer's Embassy[19]. Verse techniqueLerman writes in free verse; i.e. unrhymed with no definite pattern of scansion. There appears nevertheless to be some regularity in the distribution of stressed syllables in the line. The poems occasionally begin with one or two lines of traditional iambic pentameter, and drift toward pentameter elsewhere. Enjambment is frequent; i.e. the material is often divided into lines at a point that would not correspond to natural pause locations in speech. The verse is crammed with specific, vivid references to the real world; for example, the tools and harpsichord plectra mentioned in the conclusion of "The Farm in Winter", from The Mystery of Meteors (2001): And in my mind there comes a picture of you:lean and skillful, born ten times into magicalgenerations of yourself, a creator, who rescueswood from the growing seasons and teaches itto serve, harmoniously, the more eternal seasonsof music. And I am going home to you and yourmystical tools: the plane, the saw, the plectrumand I am going home to you, in the long ago,in the time before everything, on a perfect day Elsewhere Lerman has complained of the personal cost (distraction, the annoyance of friends) of collecting the mental material of her poems from everyday experience; see "Being a poet", cited below. BibliographyPoetry
Short stories
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References1. ^Poets.org 2. ^Kgbbar.com 3. ^1 From "Author's Statement", web site of the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007, Arts.gov 4. ^Source: "One Writer's Life (or, Call Me, Andy)", an autobiographical essay posted 2009 at Litkicks.com. The idea that America would soon experience a political revolution bringing social justice was common among young people at that time, though it is not clear from the quotation whether Lerman is actually attributing this belief to her youthful self. 5. ^Lerman probably errs here; the workshop was at 115 Christopher Street, rendered later in fiction by Lerman as "Charles". 6. ^The pin block is a solid slab of maple that holds the tuning pins in place. One hole must be drilled, carefully, for each pin. 7. ^1 "One Writer's Life", cited above 8. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823513/ IMDb] 9. ^"One Writer's Life", cited above. The harpsichord workshop is remembered affectionately in Lerman's writings. Her first book, Armed Love, is dedicated to the "harpsichordettes", her fellow workers; and memories of the time appear in the poem "The Farm in Winter", quoted below, and at greater length in the short story "Civilization", from The Blonde on the Train. In Janet Planet, the main character assembles a 'Guttenberg' harpsichord kit ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265705787_Nailing_Down_the_Truth Researchgate.net]); and in "The River House", from Observers and Other Stories, the protagonist answers the same ad that the real Lerman answered, works in the shop for a time, then follows another builder elsewhere. 10. ^In the then-current rating system, "X" meant a film too graphic for those under 17 to be admitted, even with an accompanying parent. Thus to call a book of poems "XX", with double X, was strong language. The Kennedy review (February 17, 1974), along with others from the time, can be read at http://www.enotes.com/topics/eleanor-lerman. 11. ^The source is a web-posted interview, evidently from 2014: "Strange Life: Eleanor Lerman Interview" 12. ^"Strange Life: Eleanor Lerman Interview". See also the published essay "Being a poet", cited below. 13. ^Poets.org 14. ^Blondeonthetrain.com 15. ^Newsday 16. ^Btwof.com 17. ^Nea.gov 18. ^Gf.org 19. ^{{cite web |title=sfadb: Eleanor Lerman |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Eleanor_Lerman |website=Science Fiction Awards Database |accessdate=30 June 2018}} External links
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