Ignatow, David

Ignatow, David

▪ American poet
born Feb. 7, 1914, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 17, 1997, East Hampton, N.Y.

      American poet whose works address social as well as personal issues in meditative, vernacular free verse.

      Ignatow worked for a time as a journalist with the WPA Federal Writers' Project (WPA Federal Writers' Project). His first book of poetry, entitled Poems (1948), was followed by The Gentle Weight Lifter (1955). Many of the pieces in the latter collection, as well as many in Say Pardon (1961) and Figures of the Human (1964), are written in the form of parables. From the 1960s Ignatow taught poetry at several American colleges and universities. He was appointed poet in residence and associate professor at the City University of New York in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1984.

      Ignatow's thematic range, as well as his reputation, expanded significantly with Rescue the Dead (1968), which explores family, marriage, nature, and society. In Facing the Tree (1975), The Animal in the Bush (1977), and Tread the Dark (1978), he further examines death and the art of poetry. His later collections include Whisper to the Earth (1981), Leaving the Door Open (1984), Shadowing the Ground (1991), and Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994 (1993). The Notebooks of David Ignatow was published in 1973, and he published The One in the Many: A Poet's Memoirs in 1988. Talking Together: Letters of David Ignatow, 1946 to 1990 was published in 1992.

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