John Wilkinson

CAJOLING

Язык: английский

Переводы: немецкий (UMSCHMEICHELN)

CAJOLING

If I let myself
freely to spill,
here is a wolf
amidst forest petals

carrying a small
grey harbinger,
here is a blue woollen
empty. Its shelf.

Either it freezes
or coagulates
or sets firm.
Every sweet piece

picked up, melts.
Never think.
Never feel.
I won't give leave.

John Wilkinson

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* 20.04.1953, London, Великобритания
Место жительства: Chicago, США

John Wilkinson was born in London in 1953 and grew up in Cornwall and Devon. He gained a B.A. in English from the University of Cambridge in 1975 and passed a year at Harvard working on the poetry of John Wieners. Thereafter he trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked over twenty years in mental health services in England, being the Head of Mental Health and Assistant Director of Public Health at East London & The City Health Authority. From 2005-2010 Wilkinson was Writer in Residence and thereafter Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Since 2010 he is a Professor of Practice of the Arts at the University of Chicago.

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Wilkinson is an important representative of British experimental and avant-garde poetry who has published seven major collections of verse as well as critical articles on British and American poetry, some of which were collected in The Lyric Touch (2007). His wife is the literary critic Maud Ellmann.

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