Barbara Jordan (poet)

Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet and academic.

For persons of a similar name, see Barbara Jordan (disambiguation).

Life

She is a professor of English at University of Rochester, and Plutzik Memorial Series director.[1][2]

Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[3] Sulfur, The Atlantic, The New Yorker,[4] Harvard Review.

Awards

Works
  • Tutelary poems. Radio Cologne.
  • Channel. Beacon Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8070-6809-0.
  • Trace elements. Penguin Books. 1998.

Essays

Reviews

Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:

"Consciousness as landscape, /
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"

The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.[5]

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References
  1. "Rochester Review V61 N3--Class Notes". www.rochester.edu.
  2. "Currents--March 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-07-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2020-02-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. DAVID YEZZI (June 1, 1999). "Trace Elements.(Review)". Poetry.
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