Jack Marshall (author)
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Born | 1936 |
Jack Marshall (born 1936 in Brooklyn, United States) is an American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.[1]
Upbringing[]
He was raised speaking Arabic in a Mizrahi Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture.[2] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighbourhood.
Career and accolades[]
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn.[3] He is the recipient of two Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Personal life[]
Jack discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he used to attend night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[4] He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he is interested in.
He has lived in El Cerrito, California since the early 2000s.[5]
Works[]
- The Darkest Continent, For Now Press, (1967)
- Bearings, Harper & Row, (1970)
- Floats, Cedar Creek Press, (1971).
- Bits of Thirst, Blue Wind Press, (1976)
- Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise, Jazz Press, (1983)
- Arabian Nights, Coffee House Press, (1987)
- Sesame, Coffee House Press, (1993)
- Millennium Fever, Coffee House Press, (1996)
- Chaos Comics, Pennywhistle Press, (1994)
- Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, (2002)
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn Coffee House Press, (October 1, 2005) ISBN 978-1-56689-174-5
References[]
- ^ Coming attractions for fall 2006: Page 2
- ^ Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall
- ^ What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall
- ^ 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup, Kathleen Maclay, UCBerkleyNews
- ^ Radin, Rick (20 April 2016). "El Cerrito: City kicks off search for poet laureate". East Bay Times. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
External links[]
- Sesame, review.
Videos[]
- Living people
- 1936 births
- American male poets
- American writers of Iraqi descent
- American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
- American people of Syrian-Jewish descent
- Jewish American writers
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
- American poets
- American Arabic-language poets