Selected Poems - Hubbell, Lindley Williams
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Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994) is one of the forgotten figures of twentieth-century American poetry. After receiving a Yale Younger Poets Award in 1927, his work was published by several major U.S. publishers, but then in 1953 he moved to Japan and liked it so much that he never left again, becoming a Japanese citizen in 1960 and from then on publishing almost exclusively in Japan. He taught at Doshisha University in Kyoto and became an afficionado of n¿ theatre and a great fan of Japanese pop music.In his sixty-year writing career he moved through several phases¿: in New York in the…mehr

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Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994) is one of the forgotten figures of twentieth-century American poetry. After receiving a Yale Younger Poets Award in 1927, his work was published by several major U.S. publishers, but then in 1953 he moved to Japan and liked it so much that he never left again, becoming a Japanese citizen in 1960 and from then on publishing almost exclusively in Japan. He taught at Doshisha University in Kyoto and became an afficionado of n¿ theatre and a great fan of Japanese pop music.In his sixty-year writing career he moved through several phases¿: in New York in the 1920s, he wrote short, finely cadenced lyrics¿; by the 1940s he was producing substantial modernist works of great technical bravurä; after his arrival in Japan, he moved to a more anecdotal, often humorous mode. Yet, in spite of this stylistic odyssey, the voice in the poems is always recognisably his own. This Selected Poems reintroduces the work of an important and enjoyable poet, one who wrote equally well about urban life on Long Island and about the Japan he knew intimately during his forty-year residence there.
Autorenporträt
Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was privately educated. From 1925 he worked as a reference librarian in the Map Room of the New York Public Library. His first two books, Dark Pavilion (1927) and The Tracing of a Portal (1931) were published by Yale University Press, the first of them receiving a Yale Younger Poets Award. He published two more books with major publishers in the U.S. before moving to Japan in 1953, where he taught at Dōshisha University in Kyoto, continued to write and to publish new poetry (with the Ikuta Press in Kobe), and became an aficionado of both nō theatre and Japanese pop music. He took Japanese citizenship (with the name Hayashi Shūseki) in 1960, and remained in Japan for the rest of his life.