Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.[1]
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| Born | September 12, 1902 Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Died | January 19, 1982 (aged 79) Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts |
| Education | Valparaiso University University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA) |
| Genre | Lyric poetry |
| Notable works | Cold Morning Sky |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1938) |
| Spouse | Horace Gregory (m. 1925) |
Life
editShe was born in Kyiv and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University;[2][3] she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science.[4] She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925.[1] Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.
Her work appeared in The New York Times,[5] Poetry Magazine,[6]
Awards
edit- 1938 Pulitzer Prize
Works
editPoetry
edit- Threshold and Heart. The Macmillan company. 1934.
- Cold Morning Sky. Macmillan. 1937.
- The Golden Mirror. New York: The Macmillan company. 1944.
- Selected poems. Grove Press. 1954.
- Collected Poems. Viking Press. 1965.
- The Hidden Waterfall: poems. Vanguard Press. 1974.
- Robert S. Phillips, ed. (2002). New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0717-5.
Editor
edit- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). Marya Zaturenska (ed.). Selected poems of Christina Rossetti. Macmillan.
Non-fiction
edit- Mary Beth Hinton, ed. (2002). The diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0714-4.
- Marya Zaturenska; Horace Gregory (1946). A History of American poetry, 1900-1940. Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Marya Zaturenska, (1949). Christina Rossetti, A Portrait With Background, The MacMillan Company.
References
edit- ^ a b "MARYA ZATURENSKA, LYRIC POET RECEIVED PULITZER PRIZE IN '38". The New York Times. January 21, 1982.
- ^ "A JEWISH GIRL SHOCKS KU KLUXIA | פארװערטס | 14 פברואר 1926 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית". www.nli.org.il.
- ^ "How She Shocked Ku Kluxia | פארװערטס | 14 פברואר 1926 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית". www.nli.org.il.
- ^ Sanford V. Sternlicht (2004). "Marya Zaturenska". The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers. Terrace Books. ISBN 978-0-299-20484-6.
- ^ Zaturenska, Marya. "The New York Times - Search". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Search Marya Zaturenska". Poetry Foundation. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
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