Donald Gutierrez
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Donald Kenneth Gutierrez (born 1932) is an American writer and professor emeritus
of English literature
. The eldest son of Latin-American immigrants, he was born in San Francisco, California
, in 1932. He taught at the University of Notre Dame
and the Western New Mexico University
in Silver City, New Mexico
. He studied English literature at University of California, Berkeley
in the early 1950s. Gutierrez left Berkeley in 1958 to pursue a career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Library in New York, and wound up at book publisher Grosset & Dunlap
.
He returned to California to receive a PhD from UCLA in 1964 and later joined the Notre Dame English department. Gutierrez returned to Notre Dame on a research scholarship, shortly before finishing a book on Kenneth Rexroth
that renowned former Notre Dame president and head, Reverend ("Father") Theodore M. Hesburgh, placed in Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library (Special Collection).
, and wrote about the last period (late 1920s) of Lawrence, whom Gutierrez describes as having dealt with death and symbolic renewal in an "ontological" manner, a lens through which Lawrence offered keen insights into humankind and society. An erstwhile Berkeley student who observed the "Bohemian
-literati" world in the 1950s, Gutierrez has also written memoirs and commentaries on the "Beat
" scenes of Berkeley
and San Francisco. Gutierrez also has produced many works on the legendary San Francisco author-poet, Kenneth Rexroth
and other icons of that time. Gutierrez currently lectures, gives poetry readings and writes essays, articles and book reviews.
Gutierrez' post-2000 work and writings have moved away from an academic focus of literature and fine arts, and he now writes articles and essays more as a social and political commentator, with topics of: social justice, human rights abuses, economic inequities, and the major role he feels U.S. domestic and foreign policy plays in these. His defense of Constitutional and international human and civil rights is non-wavering. He is an outspoken critic of political repression
, international war criminal
s (Chile's Augusto Pinochet
, Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt
, Nicaragua's Somoza
, Panama's Manuel Noriega
, etc.), the United States' "School of the Americas" (the Department of Defense's Spanish-speaking training facility), the U.S. military engagements in Iraq
, Bosnia
, Vietnam
, the current torture and imprisonment practices the U.S. is claimed to participate in (including "extraordinary rendition" and "dark cells") and the policies of the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon
, George H. W. Bush
, Bill Clinton
, and George W. Bush
.
Gutierrez has written six books, more than 100 essays, papers and book reviews. He has contributed numerous essays to journals, newspapers, universities, and online publishers, including the El Dorado Sun, the North Dakota Quarterly, Progressive San Francisco Latino newspaper, El Tecolote, the D. H. Lawrence Review,
the Malahat Review, the University of California's "California Alumni Association", Mosaic, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Texas Quarterly, Twentieth Century Literature, and Studies in Short Fiction. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
, with his wife Marlene Zander-Gutierrez, a New Mexico artist. They have two sons, Hector and Trajan Gutierrez. Gutierrez is an avid sports fan and has written an occasional essay on the economic aspect of professional sports.
Emeritus
Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
of English literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
. The eldest son of Latin-American immigrants, he was born in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
, in 1932. He taught at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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and the Western New Mexico University
Western New Mexico University
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in Silver City, New Mexico
Silver City, New Mexico
Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 10,545. It is the county seat of Grant County. The city is the home of Western New Mexico University.-History:...
. He studied English literature at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
in the early 1950s. Gutierrez left Berkeley in 1958 to pursue a career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
Library in New York, and wound up at book publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a United States book publisher founded in 1898.The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of the British publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC through its American subsidiary Penguin Group....
.
He returned to California to receive a PhD from UCLA in 1964 and later joined the Notre Dame English department. Gutierrez returned to Notre Dame on a research scholarship, shortly before finishing a book on Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
that renowned former Notre Dame president and head, Reverend ("Father") Theodore M. Hesburgh, placed in Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library (Special Collection).
Career
Gutierrez is a scholar of D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
, and wrote about the last period (late 1920s) of Lawrence, whom Gutierrez describes as having dealt with death and symbolic renewal in an "ontological" manner, a lens through which Lawrence offered keen insights into humankind and society. An erstwhile Berkeley student who observed the "Bohemian
Bohemian
A Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
-literati" world in the 1950s, Gutierrez has also written memoirs and commentaries on the "Beat
Beat generation
The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
" scenes of Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
and San Francisco. Gutierrez also has produced many works on the legendary San Francisco author-poet, Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
and other icons of that time. Gutierrez currently lectures, gives poetry readings and writes essays, articles and book reviews.
Gutierrez' post-2000 work and writings have moved away from an academic focus of literature and fine arts, and he now writes articles and essays more as a social and political commentator, with topics of: social justice, human rights abuses, economic inequities, and the major role he feels U.S. domestic and foreign policy plays in these. His defense of Constitutional and international human and civil rights is non-wavering. He is an outspoken critic of political repression
Political repression
Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take political life of society....
, international war criminal
War crime
War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility...
s (Chile's Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
, Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt
Efraín Ríos Montt
José Efraín Ríos Montt is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general, and former president of Congress. In the 2003 presidential elections, he unsuccessfully ran as the candidate of the ruling Guatemalan Republican Front .Huehuetenango-born Ríos Montt remains one of the most...
, Nicaragua's Somoza
Somoza
The Somoza family was an influential political dynasty who ruled Nicaragua as an hereditary dictatorship. Their influence exceeded their combined 43 years in the de facto presidency, as they were the power behind the other presidents of the time through their control of the National Guard...
, Panama's Manuel Noriega
Manuel Noriega
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, etc.), the United States' "School of the Americas" (the Department of Defense's Spanish-speaking training facility), the U.S. military engagements in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
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, the current torture and imprisonment practices the U.S. is claimed to participate in (including "extraordinary rendition" and "dark cells") and the policies of the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
, George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
, Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
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, and George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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.
Gutierrez has written six books, more than 100 essays, papers and book reviews. He has contributed numerous essays to journals, newspapers, universities, and online publishers, including the El Dorado Sun, the North Dakota Quarterly, Progressive San Francisco Latino newspaper, El Tecolote, the D. H. Lawrence Review,
the Malahat Review, the University of California's "California Alumni Association", Mosaic, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Texas Quarterly, Twentieth Century Literature, and Studies in Short Fiction. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, with his wife Marlene Zander-Gutierrez, a New Mexico artist. They have two sons, Hector and Trajan Gutierrez. Gutierrez is an avid sports fan and has written an occasional essay on the economic aspect of professional sports.
Books by Gutierrez
- "The Holiness of the Real": The Short Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth; 1966; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN 978-0-83-863651-0;
- Lapsing Out: Embodiments of Death and Rebirth in the Last Writings of D. H. Lawrence; 1980; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ISBN 978-0-83-862293-3
- The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature; 1985; Whitston Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-87-875293-5
- The Dark and Light Gods: Essays on the Self in Modern Literature; 1987; Whitston Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-87-875339-0
- Subject-object relations in Wordsworth and Lawrence (Studies in modern literature); 1987; UMI Research Press ISBN 978-0-83-571781-6
- Breaking Through to the Other Side: Essays on Realization in Modern Literature; 1994; Whitston Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-87-875435-9
Essays and articles by Gutierrez
- Maker, Worker, Profit-Maker http://libxml.unm.edu/oanm/nmu/nmu1mss651bc.html 1977; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper)
- T. V. Sports Commentary and the Corruption of Language http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss651bc/nmu1%23mss651bc_m14.html 1978; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper)
- The Rites of Passage and Adolescence in Modern Society http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss651bc/nmu1%23mss651bc_m14.html 1978; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records; (Scholar's paper)
- Girlie Magazines http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss651bc/nmu1%23mss651bc_m14.html 1979; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper)
- The Hylozoistic Vision of Lady Chatterley's Lover; 1981
- Maker versus profit-maker: B. Traven’s "Assembly line http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0; 1980
- The ideas of place : D. H. Lawrence’s travel books http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0; 1981
- Poetry can make even tough concepts endurable and enduring http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0; 1982
- Quick, now, here, now, always : the flaming rose of Lawrence and Eliot http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0; 1982
- Toughness is an overrated term being used among Americans http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0; 1984
- Incarceration and torture : the self in extremity http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0http://www.law.uc.edu/morgan/indexsubject25.pdf 1985; Human Rights Quarterly; Johns Hopkins University
- A Life of Kenneth Rexroth - R Book Reviews http://www.zinkle.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_n1_v37/ai_14766065http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_n1_v37/ai_14766065 1993; The Literary Review Magazine
- American Presidents and Business Versus Community http://www.nd.edu/~com_sens/issues/old/v11/v11_n3.html#business 1996; "Common Sense;" Univ. of Notre Dame
- On Rexroth's Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rexroth/gutierrez.htm; 1999; "Modern American Poetry;" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Bohemian Berkeley http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/Cal_Monthly/April_2002/Bohemian_Berkeley.asp; 2002; UC "California Alumni Association"
- “Where Is the Humanity?” America's Use of Excessive Force Over There; 2002
- Systemic Greed: Kozlowski and Beyond http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=39d3a70495573dac58ac75a19ab943ea 2003; El Tecolote
- Patriotism and Country Versus State http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=aff6e18f6b58a71e737590b15ec3b7dd 2003; El Tecolote
- The Preposterously Expensive Military of America http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=27c342c0493cabec659915fb91d88e24 2004; El Tecolote
- Making Politicians Accountable http://www.eldoradosun.com/Archives/08_04_issue/#Anchor-19847; 2004; El Dorado Sun Guest Editorial
- Leveling the Hierarchy http://www.eldoradosun.com/Archives/04-05_issue/GE-Donald%20Gutierrez.htm; 2005; El Dorado Sun Guest Editorial
- On State Political Torture http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/statetorture/base_view; 2005; Tikkun
- The Extraordinary Cruelty of "Extraordinary Rendition http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/JanFeb06.html; http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/Gutierrez.JanFeb06.pdf (PDF); 2006; Amer. Humanist Society; http://www.eldoradosun.com/Archives/12-05_issue/Gutierrez%20%20.htm 2005; El Dorado Sun
- Poetry Review: Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow; Robert Duncan; http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/duncan/meadow.htm; Modern American Poetry (Co-authors: Carey Nelson, Norman M. Finklestein, Christopher Beach)
- Doctoral dissertation: study of A Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim...
; Anthony Powell
Dates are review dates
- Rogue State by Noam Chomsky; 2001; Review: http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/01-09%20FALL/rouguestate.html
- The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex by Dr. Helen Caldicott; 2002
- War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges; 2003; Review: http://www.nd.edu/~com_sens/issues/old/v17/v17_n6.html#gutierrez
- The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz; 2003; Z-Magazine; Review: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Nov2003/review11103.html
- State Terrorism and the United States by Frederick H. Gareau; 2004
Papers by Gutierrez in Spanish
- El costo del ejército militar estadounidense http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=1494f13a700d5a645bbf6443caa58352 2004; El Tecolote
- Avaricia en el Sistema: Kozlowski y el futuro http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7ca3a0b3854a7067381aa36fe5c1955a; 2003; El Tecolote
- Patriotismo y nación versus estado http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=15d22575345f7b5a5981c2dd498e1eb2; 2003; El Tecolote
Lectures, readings by Gutierrez
- Harwood Museum of Art Poetry and Passion, Three Major Early Modern British Poetshttp://harwoodmuseum.org/gallery7.php?tag=exhibitshttp://www.horseflyonline.com/index.php?fuseaction=home.viewarticle&article_id=1055 (Taos, New MexicoTaos, New MexicoTaos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,700. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, and El Prado. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American...
) 10 Nov. 2005
- National Poetry Month Events (Cannon, New Mexico) http://www.cannonlibrary.org/
- New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; University of New Mexico; Speakers/Programs; 1986; 1988; 1991-1992 http://libxml.unm.edu/oanm/nmu/nmu1mss651bc.html
Honors, awards
- Western New Mexico University Department of Humanities Professor Emeritus http://www.wnmu.edu/catalog-2000_2001/boraf.htm
Related links
- Catalog of Works by Donald Gutierrez in University of Notre Dame Library http://lib5.nd.edu:8991/F/EA2XTCLQSBMGP1LUY997EV1ETT1C4PX9AC9SHGCPUKQD4I6ATL-06741?func=find-c&ccl_term=WRD+%3D+%28++Gutierrez%2C+Donald+%29&x=0&y=0 (14 works)
- Bilingual Essays by Donald Gutierrez http://news.eltecolote.org/news/search.html (English and Spanish); El Tecolote; cerca 2003-2004
- Richard Brautigan Collection; Bibliographic reference http://www.nouspace.net/brautigan/rivers.html; Berkeley Review; 1957
- ‘Ghosts Benefic and Malign: The Influence of the “Noh” Theatre on the Three Dance Plays of Yeats’. http://themargins.net/bib/B/BL/bl154.html; Forum (Houston) 9/2; 1971: pp. 42–48; Donald Gutierrez
- The Ancient Imagination of D. H. Lawrence http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-462X(198122)27%3A2%3C178%3ATAIODH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U; Twentieth Century Literature; Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 178–196; 1981; Donald Gutierrez
- Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems by Kenneth Rexroth; Linda Hamalian (Ed.); http://www.usu.edu/westlit/oldtocs.htm 1992 (Western Literature Association; Utah State University)
- Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East West Wisdom http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/rexroth/rex-09.htm(Morgan Gibson)
- Rexroth, Kenneth http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/Rexroth.asp (Bibliographic reference—Rexroth biography study)
- The Relevance of Rexroth http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/rexroth4.htm; 2004 (Bibliography)
- Reviews of Bohemian Berkeley http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/Cal_Monthly/June_2002/Letters.asp 2002
- Poetry and Therapy (Louise Cowan, PhD) 2004 http://www.dallasinstitute.org/Programs/Spring%202004/talks/lcowanpoetryandtherapy.htm
- Breaking through to the other side Brief synospis; ISBNdb.com http://isbndb.com/d/book/breaking_through_to_the_other_side.html
- Place and Space Bibliographic reference http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/literature.htm