E. D. Blodgett

Edward Dickinson Blodgett (26 February 1935 – ?) is a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translatorcite web
url = http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000830
title = Blodgett, Edward Dickinson
publisher = The Canadian Encyclopedia
accessdate = 2008-05-09] who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection "Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano".

Biography

Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta.

In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for 'Transfiguration" (1998) , a translation of Blodgett's poetry.

On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.

Poetry

*"Take away the names" (1975)
*"Sounding" (1977)
*"Beast Gate" (1980)
*"Arché/Elegies" "(1983)
*"Musical Offering (1986)
*"Da Capo" (1990)
*"Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano" (1996)
*"Apostrophes II: through you I" (1998)
*"Transfiguration" (1998) translation by Jacques Brault
*"Apostrophes III: Alone Upon the Earth" (1999)
*"Apostrophes IV: speaking you is holiness" (2000)
*"Ark of Koans" (2003)
*"Apostrophes V: never born except within the other" (2003)
*"Apostrophes VI: open the grass" (2004)
*"Elegy" (2005)
*"In the heart of the wood" (2005)
*"Practices of eternity" (2005)

Literary Criticism and Translations

* "Configuration. Essays in the Canadian Literatures" (1982)
* "D. G. Jones and his Works" (1984)
* "The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana" (1987) with Roy Arthur Swanson
* "Alice Munro" (1988)
* "Romance of Flamenca" (1995)
* "Five Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada" (2005)

References

External links

* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/3/8/t8-4002-e.html 1996 Governor General's Literary Award Winner: E. D. Blodgett] (includes audio clip)