Lynn Sukenick

Lynn Luria Sukenick (September 11, 1937, New York, New York – March 14, 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts)[1] was an American poet. She is also credited with coining the terms, "daughter centric", and "matrophobic".[2]

Life

She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University. She received a doctorate in English from City University of New York.

She taught at San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Cruz,[3] Cornell University, Cleveland State University, the New College of California.[4]

She married Ronald Sukenick, but divorced in 1984.[5] He collaborated with her in his story "Roast Beef: A Slice of Life" in The Death of the Novel and Other Stories.

Her work appeared in Ironwood,[6] Quarry List,[7] Five Finders Review,[8] California Quarterly,[9]

She coined the term Matrophobia, the fear of becoming one's mother, (in her work on Doris Lessing).[10][11]

Awards

Work

Poetry Books
  • Water astonishing: poems. Ragnarok Press. 1974.
  • Houdini. Capra Press. 1973. ISBN 978-0-912264-81-3.
  • Problems & Characteristics. Serendipity Books. 1975.
  • Houdini Houdini. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 1982.
  • The Hue Everyone Living Knows: Poems. Small Press Distribution. 1993. ISBN 978-1-879342-05-7.

Short Stories

Criticism
  • Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards, ed. (1988). "On Women and Fiction". The Authority of experience. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-622-8.
  • "Feeling and Reason in Doris Lessings's Fiction". Contemporary Literature. 14: 515–535. 1973.
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References
  1. Social Security Death Index: Lynn L Sukenick
  2. Kruk, Laurie. "Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. http://www.publicartinla.com/womens_salons/newsletters/apr1976.html
  4. "Memorial rite for L. Luria-Sukenick". The Boston Globe. June 2, 1995.
  5. John Calder (22 September 2004). "Ronald Sukenick: US novelist building on the Beat generation". The Guardian.
  6. Cuddihy, Michael (1986). "Ironwood". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. University Of California, Santa Cruz. College V; Porter College (University Of California, Santa Cruz) (1978). "Quarry west". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Five fingers review". 1984. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. University Of California, Davis (1985-01-01). "California quarterly (Davis)". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (1997). Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory. Taylor & Francis. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-8153-0824-9.
  11. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tMla3qn5nVEJ:www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/feminism/mother_daughter/rich_motherhood.doc+Lynn+Sukenick&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
  12. http://www.amylowell.org/past_recipients.htm
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