David Tucker
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from the University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, where he studied with Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
.
He is an assistant managing editor of the Metro section of The Star-Ledger of Newark.
He married and had a daughter, Calisa. His second marriage was to Beth Johnson; they have two daughters, Emily, and Amy.
Awards
- 2007 Witter Bynner FellowshipWitter Bynner FellowshipWitter Bynner Fellowships are administered by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen by the U.S...
- Bakeless prize from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
Works
Reviews
After a youthful crush on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," I discovered, somewhat to my amazement, that you could write moving poems without--well, howling. This fact hit home when I read Donald Justice's introduction to Weldon Kees's collected poem back in the late fifties. Justice called his intro "The Quiet Voice of Weldon Kees" and argued that Kees's poems were all the more moving, even startling, because they were understated and lacked hysterical breast-beating. The title of David Tucker's first book (chapbook, actually) suggests that it must be of the Justice school, and it is, though the title is more than a tone of voice tantamount to a yawn--a lot more, in fact.