Cynthia Zarin
Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.
Life
She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.
She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.[1] She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997.[2]
She teaches at Yale University.[3] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[4] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[5] Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.[6] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.
Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry
- artist in residence at St. John the Divine.
- Peter I. Lavan Award
- New York Women's Press Award for Writing on the Arts
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry
- 2002, she received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
Poetry
- "Of Lincoln". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- "The Astronomical Hen". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-11-28. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- "Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2009-04-04. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
Books
- Orbit, Alfred A. Knopf 2017. ISBN 978-0451494726 [7]
- The Ada Poems, Alfred A Knopf 2010. ISBN 978-0307272478
- New Age and Other Poems. Columbia University. 1984.
- The Swordfish Tooth. A.A. Knopf. 1989. ISBN 978-0-394-57320-5.
- Fire Lyric. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-42003-3.
- The Watercourse. Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-41366-7.
- An Enlarged Heart, A Personal History, Alfred A. Knopf 2013.[8][9]
Criticism
- "Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson". The New Yorker. November 13, 2006.
- "After Hamlet: A Shakespearian Maverick Comes to Broadway" The New Yorker, May 2008.
- "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and The Perils of Childhood" The New Yorker, April 2006.
- "Teen Queen: Looking For Lady Jane" The New Yorker, October, 2007.
Children
- Rose and Sebastian. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-75920-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - What Do You See when You Shut Your Eyes?. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-395-76507-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Wallace Hoskins, the Boy who Grew Down: The Boy Who Grew Down. Illustrator Martin Matje. DK Ink. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7894-2523-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis. Illustrator Pierre Pratt. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. January 1, 2004. ISBN 978-0-689-84762-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Saints Among the Animals. Illustrator Leonid Gore. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. 2006. ISBN 978-0-689-85031-8.
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Anthologies
- Holly Hughes, ed. (2005). "The Big Cheese". Best Food Writing 2005. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-1-56924-345-9.
- Robert Atwan, Louis Menand, ed. (2004). "An Enlarged Heart". The Best American Essays 2004. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-35706-2.
- Norton Anthology of Poetry ISBN 978-0393969245
“Elegant, interlocking essays . . . [with] an underlying generosity of spirit. Her remembrances, while revealing, are refreshingly devoid of the medical-grade dysfunction we’ve come to expect from memoir. . . . An enlarged heart is surely a marvelous thing.” --San Francisco Chronicle
References
- ^ "Cynthia Zarin, Writer, Weds a Painter on L.I." The New York Times. January 25, 1988.
- ^ "WEDDINGS; Cynthia Zarin and Joseph Goddu". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
- ^ "Welcome | English".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Macaulay, Alastair (Oct 30, 2014). "Leaping From Within, Narratives of a Young Ensemble". Retrieved Aug 9, 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Library Journal". Library Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
Read this new collection by Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, Zarin, and J.M.W. Turner comes to mind. (Or maybe George Inness.) In particular it recalls Turner's late stage work, when issues of craft have been long resolved, and what we see is pure feeling, sublime and urgent...we are thrust into the eye of the storm by a strong hand. Zarin's fifth collection (After "The Ada Poems") is essential reading for those seeking magic on the page.
- ^ Beha, Christopher R. (2013-03-01). "'An Enlarged Heart,' by Cynthia Zarin". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
On "There were moments throughout "An Enlarged Heart" that reminded me of Didion at her elegiac best, which is perhaps the finest compliment I know how to pay an essayist. Here is Zarin traveling in Italy with the man who will soon be her first husband:
"I sat on a flat rock below the house and thought about all the wonderful things I would write if I really was a writer, rather than pretending to be one, when in truth I was a woman who wanted to have a baby. All day my notebook sat idle. It was May then, too, and cold, and I wore a very expensive fawn-colored shearling coat I had bought in Venice, with money I had earned at the magazine where I then worked, writing about clothes — one of the only things, then, that I knew a great deal about, along with passages from 'The Waste Land' and some Yeats poems, which I liked to recite to myself, and a few lines from 'Cymbeline,' which I had decided perversely was my favorite play, not knowing or understanding that it was not a young person's play and that I did not know the least thing about it." - ^ "'An Enlarged Heart' by Cynthia Zarin". BostonGlobe.com. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
External links
Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Harvard University alumni
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Yale University faculty
- American women poets
- American women journalists
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American journalists
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American journalists
- The New Yorker staff writers