Jean Day
Jean Day (born 1954) is an American poet.
Life and work
[edit | edit source]Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Middletown, Rhode Island, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in literary publishing, for many years as associate editor of Representations. She was acquisitions manager, then executive director of Small Press Distribution from 1977 to 1989, developing close associations with many Bay Area writers and publishers, including Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Johanna Drucker, Barrett Watten, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Laura Moriarty, and Tom Mandel. She is married to the philosopher and art critic John Rapko.[1][2]
Day has published eleven books of poetry, and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2004, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (1998), and In the American Tree (1986). Her translations from the Russian (with Elena Balashova) have been anthologized in Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry (1992) and Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry (2000).[3] She has received awards and fellowships from the Fund for Poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Contemporary Arts Educational Project.[4][5][6]
Books by Jean Day
[edit | edit source]- Linear C,, 1983, Tuumba (Berkeley)
- Flat Birds, 1985, Gaz (San Francisco)
- A Young Recruit Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 1988, Roof Books (New York)
- The I and the You Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 1992, Potes & Poets, (Edgemont, CT)
- The Literal World Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 1998, Atelos (Berkeley)
- Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2006, Adventures in Poetry (New York)
- Early Bird, 2014, O'Clock Press (Philadelphia and Providence)
- Daydream Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2017, Litmus (Brooklyn)
- The Triumph of Life Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2018, Insurance Editions (New York)
- Late Human Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2021, Ugly Duckling Presse (New York)
- The Night Before the Day on Which Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., 2022, Roof Books (New York)
- The Matter, Asterion Projects, 2022
- Apicality Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., Nion Editions, 2024 (Berkeley)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jean Day website
- Jean Day at the Electronic Poetry Center
- Linear C and "The I and the You" /ubu editions
- Silliman's Blog review of Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium
- Jason Morris's review of Late Human in The Brooklyn Rail
- Mark Scroggins's review of Late Human at Hyperallergic
- Mike Hauser's review of Late Human at Auxiliary Monuments
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