Deborah Landau

Deborah Landau (born 1973) is an American poet, essayist, and critic.

Deborah Landau
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Website
www.deborahlandau.com

Landau's "taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions" have been described as "confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg." Her meditations upon yearning and selfhood are said to remind us "of the nuanced beauty of language." [1] Jennifer Michael Hecht has praised her poems as "Terrificly smart, witty, and slightly terrifying."[2] Nick DePascal asserts that Landau's work "accurately matches form to content" and "leads the reader down a particular path through style as much as the meaning of the actual words on the page...."[3] Publishers Weekly has described her work as "haunting," "stunning," "dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful." [4]

Landau's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Erotic Poems, The Wall Street Journal, Poetry Daily, The New York Times, and The Harvard Review, among other publications.[5] Landau grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduated with distinction from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Brown University, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in English and American Literature. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Landau's most recent book, The Uses of the Body,[6][7] was published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press and was a Lannan Literary Selection.[8]

Deborah Landau is currently director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.[9]

Bibliography
  • Orchidelirium, Anhinga Press, 2003 (winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry)
  • The Last Usable Hour, Copper Canyon Press, 2011.
  • The Uses of the Body, Copper Canyon Press, 2015.
  • Soft Targets, Copper Canyon Press, 2019. (winner of the 2019 Believer Book Award)
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gollark: The magic economy goblins.
gollark: Ah, but if we move the UK there, people can *work* in Switzerland and *shop* in the UK!
gollark: Well, I guess we'd better move the UK to Switzerland.
gollark: Meanwhile, I don't know what the UK's mean or median wages are.

References
  1. "Last Usable Hour, by Deborah Landau". Booklist Online. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  2. Michael Hecht, Jennifer (October 19, 2011). "Book Review Post - Deborah Landau's The Last Usable Hour". Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  3. DePascal, Nick (Fall 2011). "The Last Usable Hour". Rain Taxi. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  4. "The Last Usable Hour starred review". Publishers Weekly. June 20, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  5. "Deborah Landau, Faculty of CWP | NYU". Cwp.fas.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  6. "The Uses of the Body, poetry by Deborah Landau". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  7. "Sense of Self". The New Yorker. 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  8. "Lannan Literary Program - Lannan Foundation". Lannan.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
  9. "NYU Names Poet Deborah Landau Director of Its Creative Writing Project". Nyu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-27.


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