Literature an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Second Edition

Author: X. J. Kennedy was born in Dover, New Jersey, in 1929. After teaching English at the University of Michigan, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC-Greensboro), and Tufts University, he became a full-time writer in 1978. He has published six other collections of poetry, including Nude Descending a Staircase, which won the 1961 Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize; Cross Ties, awarded the 1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Dark Horses, which was published by Johns Hopkins in 1992. He has also written eighteen children's books, including Exploding Gravy (2002), and has coauthored several textbooks, including An Introduction to Poetry with Dana Gioia, now in its eleventh edition. His numerous honors include the Aiken Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement in Modern American Poetry, Guggenheim and National Arts Council fellowships, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club, the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (ldquo;Actually, I was pretty eighth classrdquo;). His poems, some published in theNew Yorker, were first collected inNude Descending a Staircase(1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited inBartlettrsquo;s Familiar Quotationsand reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, aLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English., ISBN13: B001RYE39C ISBN10: B001RYE39C Material Type: hardcover