Beth Bachmann
Encyclopedia
Beth Bachmann is an American poet
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Bachmann is Assistant Professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University
. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review
, AGNI
, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Tin House
, and Ploughshares
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They are included in the textbook The Practice of Creative Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's).
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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Bachmann is Assistant Professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review
Antioch Review
The Antioch Review is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States, it publishes fiction, essays and poetry from both emerging and established authors.The magazine continues to publish...
, AGNI
Agni
Agni is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods...
, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Tin House
Tin House
Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...
, and Ploughshares
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...
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They are included in the textbook The Practice of Creative Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's).
Awards
- 2011 Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, for Flaw - 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Temper,
- 2008 AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize
Works
- "Temper," From the Fishouse
- "Mystery Ending With a Girl in a Field", AGNI
- "Mystery of the Noise the Air Makes When Milled", AGNI
- https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2011/award_8/"muse of arms," Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
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- Temper, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, ISBN 9780822960409
- Evasion BWR Chapbook Series, 2008
Anthologies
- Best New Poets 2005 Editors George Garrett, Jeb Livingood, Samovar Press and Meridian, 2005, ISBN 9780976629603
- Best New Poets 2007 Editors Natasha Trethewey, Jeb Livingood, University of Virginia Press, 2007, ISBN 9780976629627
- Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland, Editor Richard Peabody, Paycock, ISBN 0931181224
Reviews
Bachmann’s poems grabbed me because of their violence—was I just looking for it?—but it was a violence which was often implied, a sense of foreboding, a mood often just beneath the surface, rather than Wertmuller’s horrifying image of a family of ten being gunned down in a mass grave. And it’s not that I don’t like Wertmuller’s films—I do. I guess this particular evening I just wanted the striptease, not the naked body; the faint hint of heat, not the bottle of Tabasco. - D.A. Powell
metamorphosis, resonance, transformation, the alchemy of art. Bachmann is able-by a few simple, direct gestures...to connect her personal grief and tragedy to the whole tradition of English (and Western) verse and to the poetic impulse itself to make beauty out of sorrow. - A.E. Stallings
formidable...mind-boggling...absolutely tonic...when George Herbert wrote about temper he meant that process by which metals are beaten and burned and subjected to dire extremity so as to gain their supple resilience and serviceable strength. That is the work these poems do. - Linda Gregerson
Restraint and abandon ride side-by-side through these fiercely distilled poems-again and again they bear reluctant witness to the shadows hovering around the edges of every moment. Temper starts with an evocation of a mystery-an empty train station, the words of a last phone call, a sister's body beside the tracks. Move closer. I want to tell you a story, the poet murmurs alluringly, as if to implicate us in the crime. A beautiful unease suffuses these poems-they make me aware I'm alive, and certain of nothing. A stunning debut. - Nick FlynnNick FlynnNick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins...
External links
- Author's home page
- "An Interview with Beth Bachmann", Nashville Review interview, Kendra DeColo, April 1, 2010