A Slant of Light (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Redaktion: Balakian, Peter; Smith, Bruce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft's life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611488753
• Artikelnr.: 54368791

Autorenporträt

Peter Balakian is an author and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry He teaches at Colgate University. Bruce Smith is an author, and finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and the winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith 1 Jack Wheatcroft
Philip Roth 2 Jack Wheatcroft, In Memoriam Betsy Sholl 3 "History Became
the Words": Trans/Scribing Conscience in John Wheatcroft's Answering Fire
Cynthia Hogue 4 Collections of Stories, Years Later John Ramsay 5
Remembering John Wheatcroft Matthew Stevenson 6 Sundays Tom Gardner Images
of Jack, Figures 1-4 7 Dear Katherine Jane Maas 8 Remembering Jack Gary
Sojka 9 Memories of Jack Wheatcroft Jan Balakian 10 Jack Wheatcroft Dennis
O'Brien 11 Marginalia Teresa Leo 12 Bucknell's Boy of Summer Kurt Landefeld
Images of Jack, Figures 5-8 13 Jack Philip Brady 14 Rhyming Forward and
Back Dierdre O'Connor 15 Jack Wheatcroft and The Stadler Center for Poetry
Anne Rogers Poliakoff 16 Jack, Some Scenes Peter Balakian 17 Jack
Wheatcroft: Recreant at Lewisburg Bruce Smith 18 Late Afternoon, Bucknell
Hall Shara McCallum Published Works of John Wheatcroft About the
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