Donald Finkel, 1929- . American author
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Finding-Aid for the Finkel Papers [00045]Collection Description
Papers, 1947-1983.
ca. 5580 items
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Donald Finkel, a poet-in-residence at Washington University since 1960, has produced a sizable body of innovative poetry over the past two decades. He was born in New York and received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. Much of his teaching career has been at Washington University where he developed the Writers' Program with his wife, Constance Urdang, but he has also taught at the University of Iowa, Bard College, and Bennington College.
Finkel has written ten volumes of poetry, beginning with The Clothings' New Emperor (1959). His recent work includes A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement (1991). Finkel's work has not received the extensive critical attention often given to the work of other authors; yet, what has been said about his poems is overwhelmingly positive. Finkel is a painstaking researcher and collector of information and his poems reflect this. They are grounded in a thorough understanding and appreciation of their subjects, and often contain "found" texts.
Reflecting Finkel's unique place among American poets, his papers represent one of the more interesting groups in the Washington University manuscript collection. His extensive research materials, journals, notes, and heavily revised manuscripts comprise the bulk of the Finkel Papers. A large collection of editorial matter toward all of his books and a small, yet revealing professional correspondence with editors and literary colleagues completes the Finkel Collection.
Selected Names
Finkel, Donald, 1929- . American author
Adams, Leonie, 1899- . American author
Adams, Phoebe Lou, 1918- . American author
Aldan, Daisy, 1923- . American author & editor L2
Barnes, Jim, 1933- . American author
Bell, Marvin, 1937- . American author
Berge, Carol, 1928- . American author
Bertolino, James, 1942- . American author
Bly, Robert Elwood, 1926- . American author
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970. American author
Booth, Philip E., 1925- . American author
Bourjaily, Vance Nye, 1922- . American author
Browne, Michael Dennis, 1940- . American author
Burford, William, 1927- . American author
Causley, Charles, 1917- . British author
Corman, Cid, 1924- . American author
Curley, Daniel, 1918- . American author
Delbanco, Nicholas, 1942- . American author
Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982. American author
Dickey, James, 1923-1997. American author
Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916- . American author
Eigner, Larry, 1927- . American author
Elliott, George P., 1918-1980. American author
Elman, Richard, 1934- . American author
Engle, Paul, 1908- American author
Feldman, Irving, 1928- . American author
Field, Edward, 1924- . American author
Flaherty, Douglad, 1939- . American author
Fox, Siv Cedering, 1939- . American author
Gardner, John Champlin, 1933-1982. American author
Garrett, George P., 1929- . American author
Gilder, Gary, 1938- . American author
Goedicke, Patricia, 1931- . American author
Gold, Herbert, 1924- . American author
Goldbarth, Albert, 1948- . American author
Griffith, E.V., 1927- . American author
Guenther, Charles, 1920- . American author
Hadas, Pamela White, 1946- . American author
Hall, Donald, 1928- . American author
Halpern, Daniel, 1945- . American author
Harper, Michael, 1938- . American author
Hecht, Anthony, 1923- . American author
Heyen, William, 1940- . American author
Hitchcock, George, 1914- . American author
Hoffman, Daniel, 1923- . American author
Howard, Richard, 1929- . American author L6
Hugo, Richard, 1923-1982. American author
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970. American author
Ignatow, David, 1914-1997. American author
Justice, Donald, 1925- . American author
Kizer, Carolyn, 1925- . American author
Kumin, Maxine, 1925- . American author
Leary Paris, 1931- . American author
Legler, Philip, 1928- . American author
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. American author
Levine, Philip, 1928- . American author
Levis, Larry, 1946- . American author
L'Heureux, John, 1934- . American author
Malamud, Bernard, 1914- . American author
Mariah, Paul, 1937- . American author
Mariani, Paul L., 1940- . American author
McAfee, Tom, 1928- . American author
Merwin, W.S., 1927- . American author
Moss, Howard, 1922- . American author
Nemerov, Howard, 1920-1991. American author
Nims, John Frederick, 1913- . American author
Pack, Robert M., 1929- . American author
Pinsky, Robert, 1940- . American author
Rago, Henry, 1915-1969. American author & editor L7
Ramsey, Paul, 1924- . American author L3
Ray, David, 1932- . American author
Rosenthal, M.L., 1917- . American author
Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913- . American author
Simic, Charles, 1938- . American author
Smith, William Jay, 1918- . American author
Snodgrass, W.D., 1926- . American author
Snyder, Gary, 1930- . American author
Sorrentino, Gilbert, 1929- . American author
Stafford, William Edgar, 1914- . American author
Starbuck, George, 1931- . American author L8
Stout, Rex Todhunter, 1886-1975. American author
Strand, Mark, 1934- . American author
Stryk, Lucien, 1924- . American author
Swann, Brian, 1940- . American author
Sward, Robert, 1933- . American author
Swenson, May, 1919- . American author
Tambimuttu, Thurairajah, 1915-1983. American author
Thurston, Jarvis A., 1914- . American author & editor
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975. American author
Turco, Lewis, 1934- . American author
Urdang, Constance, 1922- . American author
Van Duyn, Mona, 1921- . American author
Wagoner, David, 1926- . American author
Wallace, Ronald, 1945- . American author
Walsh, Chad, 1914- . American author
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905- . American author
Weiss, Theodore, 1916- . American author & editor
Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978. American author &
editor
Whittemore, Reed, 1919- . American author L2
Williams, Jonathan, 1929- . American author
Williams, Miller, 1930- . American author
Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964. American author
Wright, Charles Penzel, 1935- .American author