Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born August 27, 1953 Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.[1][2]
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[edit] Life
Schnackenberg studied at Mount Holyoke College and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1979-80. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in 1997.[3]
The Throne of Labdacus, one of Schnackenberg's five books of poetry, focuses on the myth of Oedipus and the stories of ancient Greece. In A Gilded Lapse of Time she devotes a section to the life, poetry, and death of Dante. As a young poet, Schnackenberg would often read Dante's works when she experienced writer's block.
Schnackenberg has been awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the Rome Prize in Creative Literature from the American Academy in Rome, as well as fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute, and The Guggenheim Foundation.[4] Today, she travels around the world reading her poetry in public, university, and conference settings.
Her first marriage, to poet Paul Smyth, ended in divorce. She was then married to the American philosopher Robert Nozick until his death in 2002.
[edit] Awards and honors
- 2001: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
- 2000: The Throne of Labdacus named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
- 1998: American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards, Rome Prize in Literature
- 1984–1985: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- 1974 and 1975: Glascock Prize from Mount Holyoke College [5]
[edit] Works
- The Throne of Labdacus, (2000)
- Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992, (2000) ISBN 0-374-52754-7
- A Gilded Lapse of Time, (1992)
- The Lamplit Answer, (1985)
- Portraits and Elegies, (1982)
[edit] Poetry Magazine
- The Boboli Gardens, Volume 124, June 1974, Page 125
- Signs, Volume 124, June 1974, Page 125
- Kandinsky's Night, Volume 124, June 1974, Page 125
- From Laughing with One Eye, Volume 132, June 1978, Page 161 [1]
[edit] Reviews
According to the August 14, 2000 Publishers Weekly, "Schnackenberg's elegant rhymes and ornate constructions made her a leading light of the 1980s movement called New Formalism, which emphasized rhyme, meter and story line."
