Arthur Gregor’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American poet
Was Poet 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender male
Birth 1923, Vienna
Death 3 August 2013, Châtillon-sur-Loire
(aged 90 years)

Arthur Gregor est un poète américain né à Vienne (Autriche) en 1923 et mort à Châtillon-sur-Loire, Loiret (France) le 3 août 2013.

Biographie

Arthur Gregor a fui avec sa famille Vienne en 1939 pour les États-Unis. Il a étudié à l’Université de Newark. Essentiellement poète, il a collaboré notamment à la revue Poetry et fut l’auteur d’une dizaine de recueils. Il a reçu le prix de la revue Poetry en 1948 et fut directeur littéraire chez Macmillan. Son œuvre a subi la double influence de Rainer Maria Rilke et de Wallace Stevens. Il fut proche aussi de Jean Garrigue (en). Il vécut à New York mais aussi à Paris et a fini ses jours dans le Loiret.

Bibliographie

Poésie

  • Octavian Shooting Targets, New York, Dodd Mead, 1954
  • Declensions of a Refrain, Poetry London/New York Books, 1957
  • Short Poem, New York, Gyre, 1965
  • Basic Movements, New York, Gyre, 1966
  • Figure in the Door, New York, Doubleday, 1968
  • A Bed by the Sea, New York, Doubleday, 1970
  • Selected Poems, New York, Doubleday, 1971
  • The Past Now, New York, Doubleday, 1975
  • Embodiment, New York, Sheep Meadow, 1982
  • Secret Citizen: Poems, New York, Sheep Meadow, 1989
  • The River Serpent and Other Poems, New York, Sheep Meadow, 1995
  • That Other Side of Things, New York, Sheep Meadow, 2001
  • The Hand upon His Head: Selected Poems, 1947-2003, University Press of New England, 2004

Mémoires

  • A Longing in the Land: Memoir of a Quest, New York, Schocken, 1983

Traductions françaises

Des traductions d’Arthur Gregor ont paru dans différents collectifs.

  • Europe n° 828/829, août-septembre 2006 (Traductions d’Emmanuel Moses)
  • Hanna Axmann-Rezzori, une vie, Villa Tamaris/La Nerthe, 2015 (Traductions de Philippe Blanchon)

Liens externes

  • Arthur Gregor in The Poetry Foundation
  • Entretien en anglais avec Arthur Gregor

Notes et références

  • Portail de la poésie
  • Portail des États-Unis
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