Joseph Stroud
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Joseph Stroud, (born 1943, Glendale, California) is an American poet.[1]
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[edit] Life
He was educated at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. He teaches at Cabrillo College.[2]
He has published five collections of poetry, most recently Of This World; New and Selected Poems[3] (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). His work earned a Pushcart Prize in 2000 and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award in 2005 and a year later was selected for a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.[4]
Varied in subject and form, Stroud’s poems include six-line lyrics, narrative prose poems, odes, homages, sustained contemplations, suites, and brief epigrammatic offerings. However it is substance, whatever form it takes, that interests him.[5] His poetry articulates a voyage through places and times and voices, often sifting through the details of daily life, searching for miracles (“Inside the pear there’s a paradise we will never know, our only hint the sweetness of its taste.” - Comice, Below Cold Mountain).
He divides his time between his home in Santa Cruz, California, and a cabin in the Sierra Nevada.[6]
[edit] Awards
- 2000 Pushcart Prize
- 2005 finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award
- 2006 Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.
[edit] Works
- In the Sleep of Rivers. Capra Press. 1974. ISBN 9780912264981.
- Signatures. BOA. 1982. ISBN 9780918526380.
- Below Cold Mountain. Copper Canyon Press. 1998. ISBN 9781556590849.
- Country of Light. Copper Canyon Press. 2004. ISBN 9781556592058.
- Of This World: New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. ISBN 9781556592850.
[edit] Anthologies
- Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks, ed. (2004). "Missing; Hear that Phone Ringing? Sounds Like Long Distance; Manna". California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Heyday Books. ISBN 9781890771720. http://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&pg=PA248&dq=Joseph+Stroud+(poet)&ei=6CoNS4bcJY-cMq_M9YQB#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Stroud%20(poet)&f=false.
- Patrice Vecchione, ed. (2007). "Bible". Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems. Illustrator Patrice Vecchione. Macmillan. ISBN 9780805082135. http://books.google.com/books?id=Uidu1Reua3sC&pg=PA50&dq=Joseph+Stroud+(poet)&ei=6CoNS4bcJY-cMq_M9YQB#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Stroud%20(poet)&f=false.
[edit] References
- ^ "Joseph Stroud",BOA Editions
- ^ Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks, ed. (2004). California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Heyday Books. ISBN 9781890771720. http://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&pg=PA248&dq=Joseph+Stroud+(poet)&ei=6CoNS4bcJY-cMq_M9YQB#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Stroud%20(poet)&f=false.
- ^ http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/index.cfm?action=displayBook&book_ID=1335
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html Poet and the Poem Webcasts, Library of Congress
- ^ CHRIS WATSON (December 5, 2008). Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11145401.
- ^ "Joseph Stroud", Good Times Weekly, 31 December 2008
