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J. D. McClatchy · Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation in ...

In 1987, the composer William Schuman asked Richard Wilbur to write a libretto for his next project, A Question of Taste, adapted from a Roald Dahl story.
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But while a libretto calls on a poet's gifts, it uses those gifts differently.
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So I have to strive for a kind of clarity, a kind of 'build,' and an economy that would almost be handicaps in the writing of a poem." Read the full article.
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April 24, 2009, 2:34pm ? indonesia, joel brouwer, mercury dressing, poem beginning with a line spoken i am told in my sleep, poetry, reviews, sorrow in 1944, the seven deadly sins, trees walking Professor Talks Poetry For a review of events around campus celebrating National Poetry Month, the Yale Daily News spoke to J.
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McClatchy: Like many poets, McClatchy landed his first commission with a bit of serendipity.
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"[Poetry] is meant to complicate things, to slow the life down, not speed it up." [...] For McClatchy, the events this weekend are part of a larger discussion about the role of poets and poetry in the Yale community.
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J. D. McClatchy- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

McClatchy A Winter Without Snow Late Night Ode Mercury Dressing Prose by J.
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J. D. McClatchy - Department News | English

Many of his poems have been set as songs by various other composers.
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In 1996 he was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and served until 2003 when he was named to the Academy's Board of Directors, on which he served until 2006.
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For many years has taught at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and other universities, and is now Professor of English at Yale.
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New projects include Little Nemo in Slumberland, commissioned by Sarasota Opera for performances in 2011; Michael Dellaira's The Secret Agent, to premiere in San Antonio in 2010 with subsequent performances in New York City and North Carolina; for Bernard Rand's Vincent, to premiere at Indiana University in 2011; and for Giorgio Battistelli's An Inconvenient Truth, commissioned by La Scala for 2013.
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He has arranged the text of Falling Man for composer Kenneth Fuchs, to be recorded by Nathan Gunn and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the following year was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an organization he now serves as its president.
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J. D. McClatchy : The Poetry Foundation

(With George Robert Minkoff)Robert Creeley, The Poetry of Song: Five Tributes to Stephen Sondheim, Poetry Society of America (New York, NY), 1992.
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McClatchy, a professor, poet and critic, reads “Election Day,” a poem about voting. back to top Poet Categorization POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic LIFE SPAN 1945– If you disagree with this poet's categorization, make a suggestion. back to top Biography J.D.
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(And author of introduction) The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1990.
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What has changed in my work, though, is its increasingly political emphasis.
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Work represented in anthologies, including The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977, Houghton, 1978; Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor, 1980; and Fifty Years of American Poetry, Abrams, 1984.
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The Poetry of J.D. McClatchy. Comments by J. Zimmerman.

Poems are meant to complicate our sense of things, not stroke them.
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Favorites of these poems in the "Motets" sequence [motet is presumably from the Old French, diminutive of mot = word], and include "The Bookcase" and "Rain Room".
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We admire tattoos, as we value poems, equally for their respect of convention and their impulse toward innovation." 2003 (guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa): "Jihad" (2 pp.), a set of three sonnets, which is also in Hazmat.
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Various sections of "Motets" were first published independently.
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Sometimes seems effortful in including 'feces' and body parts and grittiness in the poems; this often seems like a posture; Bukowski, Ginsberg, and others are more natural.
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The poems are often end- rhymed; lots of slant rhyme.
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J D McClatchy - Poetry Archive

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His five collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize- shortlisted Hazmat, are widely acclaimed for their formal ingenuity, coupled with their fluency of thought and feeling.
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Vincent Millay, Selected Poems (editor), New York, Library of America, 2003 American Writers at Home (essays), The Vendome Press in Association with the Library of America, 2004 Poets of the Civil War (editor), Library of America, 2005 J D McClatchy Reading from his poems, The Poetry Archive, 2005 Buy J D McClatchy (b.
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One of the most accomplished poets of the twentieth century, W.
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Literary Friendships Hazmat contains the long poem "Ouija," which is a tribute to the late poet James Merrill, one of McClatchy's closest friends and a poet who is often seen as a major influence on McClatchy's early writing.
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C. literature >> Howard, Richard Richard Howard's searching and witty poetry, in which homosexuality is not a problem but a solution, is a significant contribution to the gay and lesbian literary heritage. literature >> Merrill, James James Merrill's significance as a gay writer lies in his deliberate use of a personal relationship to fuel his poetry. literature >> Moss, Howard Howard Moss, one of the leading figures of American letters in the latter half of the twentieth century, is the author of a significant body of elegant, erudite, and urbane work, especially poetry.
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McClatchy's poetry has earned him praise as a writer of probing intellect and emotional acuity.
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He remarks that "a preference for form is temperamental, a part of one's character before any formal steps are taken." In his case, he prefers "smudged" forms, in which the neurosis of repetition is slightly altered (as it is in "The Method").
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1945 ) page: 1 2 3 McClatchy also has written accomplished poems in such unusual and demanding structural and metrical forms as sestinas, villanelles, canzones, haiku, trimeters, and poems in syllabics.
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Opera Chic: J. D. McClatchy

(To read an excerpt from his latest, "Mercury Dressing", click here; his 2004 collection, "Hazmat", is another OC favorite).
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We've had strategy sessions in London and New York, and I'm just now finishing up the new version.
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"Sandy" McClatchy, editor of the Yale Review and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Lots of ego, sure, but in the end it's all focused on what happens on stage when the curtain goes up.
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McClatchy, who's also an extraordinarily insightful critic, and a co-executor of James Merrill's estate, is an opera librettist, too: he has given words to the music of composers such as Ned Rorem, Lorin Maazel, Lowell Liebermann, Tobias Picker and Elliot Goldenthal.
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Giuseppe Sinopoli Giuseppe Verdi Glen Tetley Glenn Gould Glimmerglass Opera Glyndebourne Festival Grace Bumbry Graham Vick Grand Theft Auto IV Grazia Magazine Green Music Center Greg Sandow Greg Schmidt Gregory Kunde Grigory Sokolov Guido Cantelli Guillaume C?t?
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Poetz.com: Poetry Changes People

�The flesh corrupted/ with pleasure and punished with more.� In �Infection,� he describes the pain: the knot choked by appetite, desperate to advance and retreat, to thrash further inside its own swollen sentence (�.) Later, in the same poem he describes limping to the bathroom to put a hot washcloth to his face: The cloth smelled Of rotten hyacinths, their stalks snapped, Their milky petals gone brown and sticky, Throughout �Motets,� McClatchy moves deftly into pure lyric, the understated combustion of image and sound that resides confidently in its own other logic.
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McClatchy, in his version, is a soprano in her prime, never once cracking a note.
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I did the chimney and dead elms, The frayed, silken cords of scorn.
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 �The cutter smiled and took/ A small mallet,/ Laid the chisel along/ The cheekbone, and tapped so a sharpness struck/ The skin like a bygone/ Memory of other pain, other threats.� Throughout the first half of Hazmat, the depictions of bondage, disease, torture, and pain, are physically, emotionally and spiritually dealt with.  The second half of the collection is dominated by a series of 20 poems under the broad title, �Motets,� which document a holiday in hell.
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�s latest collection, that one has the sense of entering a very clean, very beautifully furnished house, where not a knick-knack is out of place, not a doorknob unpolished; every square inch having received approval from feng-shui guru and Ethan Allen interior design consultant alike.
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You did the hectic lake, a stand of pines, The cold shoulder and dull threats.
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J D MCCLATCHY: Opera Australia

Among his other honors, Mr. McClatchy has been awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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His literary essays are collected in White Paper (Columbia, 1989), which was given the Melville Cane Award by the Poetry Society of America, in Twenty Questions (Columbia, 1998), and in American Writers at Home (Vendome/Library of America, 2004).
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His selected poems, entitled Division of Spoils (Arc), appeared in England in 2003.
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In 2000 he was awarded the Governor's Arts Medal by the State of Connecticut.
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He has written narrations for performances by The New York Philharmonic and The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, and also written the supertitles for the Metropolitan Opera's productions of Puccini's Manon Lescaut (2008, DVD EMIS0999 2 17420 9 5)), Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (2008) and La Sonnambula (2009, DVD B0013885-09), Hamlet (2010), Le Comte Ory (2011), and Anna Bolena (2011).
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J. D. McClatchy: In the Service of Music- Poets.org - Poetry ...

McClatchy Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E- mail to Friend | Print J.
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Though he had never written for the opera before, McClatchy accepted.
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Schuman needed a libretto written for A Question of Taste, an opera based on the story "Taste" by Roald Dahl.
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He said he never intended to work in the opera, and came to be a librettist only after composer William Schuman called him one day with an offer.
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He's currently working on opera adaptations of George Orwell's novel 1984, Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, Nathanael West's novel Miss Lonelyhearts, and the opera Grendel, with Julie Taymor, based on Beowulf.
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Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 84, J. D. McClatchy

Those meanings shift and shimmer, work at one time and are later irrelevant.
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He’d learned a great deal from Freud, of course, not least the good doctor’s axiom that “a man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct with the world.” And Proust, in addition to being the greatest writer of the twentieth century, is its most distinctive gay writer—his sensibility attuned to the highest, most nuanced reaches of society or intellect or emotion, while at the same time aware of the underworld of the erotic, the degraded, the thrilling.
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Perhaps that’s because, by comparison, it’s the more difficult role and played for higher stakes.
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I’m less fond of the individual sonnet than I am of sequences of them.
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The local opera company in Philadelphia was, as it happened, doing its Traviata a couple of months later, so I went.
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But although they embody conventions they must not be assumed to be conservative or reactionary.
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Borzoi Reader | Authors | J. D. McClatchy

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J. D. McClatchy: “Cağaloğlu” : The New Yorker

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Excerpts from the author's diary detailing behind-the-scenes look at the composer while working together for a year on another version of Schuman's `The Mighty Casey.'Hazmat.Campion, Peter // Poetry; Nov2003, Vol.
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171 Issue 4, p256 Presents the poem "The Dialogue of Desire and Guilt," by J.
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First Line: From the cistern in the dome the daylight drips; Last Line: Trickle.
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First Line: Whatever change you were considering, Last Line: This autumn is no different from the last.MEDEA IN TOKYO.McClatchy, J.
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NYSL Library Notes: Horace: The Odes - J. D. McClatchy (2003)

He teaches at Yale University and, since 1991, has edited the Yale Review.
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McClatchy, editor of a new edition of Horace's odes translated by thirty-five modern poets, is the author of five books of poetry and two collections of essays.
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Library of America: Return to Gitche Gumee: Poet J. D. McClatchy ...

His lifetime, in other words, spanned the age when America sought to define itself, and what Longfellow gave his countrymen?who spurned history?was the mythology they needed.
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Longfellow is not a poet of startling originality, not a Whitman or Dickinson.
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Even as a college senior, Longfellow knew what he wanted.
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And he had a narrative gift both sweeping and canny, along with a near perfect ear, that made his work memorable and gave it an enormous popular appeal.
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He was an indefatigable anthologist (one alone ran to 31 volumes), compiler, textbook author, diarist, and correspondent (so besieged was he by admirers that he eventually wrote about 1500 letters a year), and he composed in every genre: novel, romance, and short story; travel sketch, essay, and table-talk; verse play, translation, epic, sonnet, ballad, elegy, and lyric.
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At the same time, he boldly helped American poetry welcome European influences, from Germanic legends to Nordic meters, seeking in the term "American" not a thumping, homemade vigor, but a cosmopolitan openness to foreign resources.
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The Electorate Process Inspires 'Election Day' Poem | Online ...

His sixth collection of poems, titled "Mercury Dressing," will be published in February.
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The Electorate Process Inspires 'Election Day' Poem | Online NewsHour | November 7, 2008 | PBS ProgramSupportFrom: ABOUT US | LOCAL TV LISTINGS EMAIL PRINT REGION: North America TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment Online NewsHour Originally Aired: November 7, 2008 The Electorate Process Inspires 'Election Day' Poem In the week that Americans cast their ballots and elected Sen.
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J.D. McClatchy Responds to Bloom - MR. Bauld's English Website

Many great poets, from Vergil to George Herbert, have been political flatterers of an Establishment.
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I think she thought more of a given poem's subject: that it must bear witness or address an issue.
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Worse, it's so "literary." Those apostrophes to Sensitivity and Compassion are downright campy, and might seem at home in an Ashbery parody.
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But in this country especially, we prefer the detached, even anarchic eye: an Emerson or Thoreau, a Whitman or Dickinson, Stevens or Lowell.
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I fail to see how this sort of dreck will prompt prison reform, or come to be linked with Keats.
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After all, he properly links "aesthetic" with "awareness." Hungry for spirit, poems swallow the world.
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