David Wevill

David Wevill

David Wevill (born 1935, Japan) is a Canadian poet and translator.[1] He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.[1]

Photo by Mark Christal. Pictured poets from Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project, Vol. II, Naked Children include left to right: Michael Vecchio, Hedwig Gorski, Phillip T. Stephens, Isabella Russell-Ides, David Wevill, and Cecilia Bustamante. Phillip is holding a photo of Joy Cole who had passed away at the time and included on the tape.

He returned to his native Canada before the outbreak of World War II. He read History and English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a noted member of an underground literary movement in London known as The Group.

Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962), aimed at resisting the conservative milieu of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill's published works include Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Penguin, 1963); Birth of a Shark (Macmillan, 1964); A Christ of the Ice-Floes (Macmillan, 1966); Penguin Modern European Poets: Ferenc Juhász (Penguin, 1970); Firebreak (Macmillan, 1971); Where the Arrow Falls (St. Martin's, 1974); Casual Ties[1] (Curbstone, 1983; Tavern Books, 2010); Other Names for the Heart (Exile Editions Ltd., 1985); Figure of 8: New Poems and Selected Translations (Exile Editions Ltd., 1987); Figure of 8 (Shearsman, 1988); Child Eating Snow (Exile Editions Ltd., 1994); Solo With Grazing Deer (Exile Editions Ltd., 2001); Departures (Shearsman, 2003); Asterisks (Exile Editions Ltd., 2007); and To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill[2] edited by Michael McGriff (Truman State University Press, 2010). Wevill is also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on poetry in translation and the poetics of translation.

References

  1. ^ a b "English Professor David Wevill publishes new book of poetry". Department of English: News. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. 2010-04-13. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/news/2773. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 

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