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Cynthia Zarin

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Cynthia Zarin
Born1959 (age 64–65)
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University
Columbia University (MFA)
Occupations
  • Poet
  • journalist
Spouses
Michael Seccareccia
(m. 1988, divorced)
Joseph Goddu
(m. 1997, divorced)

Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.

Life

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She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.

She teaches at Yale University.[1] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[2] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[3] Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York-based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.[4] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.

She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.[5] She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.[6]

Awards

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  • National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry
  • artist in residence at St. John the Divine.
  • Peter I. Lavan Award
  • New York Women's Press Award for Writing on the Arts
  • Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry
  • 2002, she received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  • 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship

Bibliography

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Poetry

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Collections
  • New Age and other poems. Columbia University. 1984.
  • The swordfish tooth : poems. New York: Knopf. 1989.
  • Fire Lyric. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-42003-3.
  • The Watercourse. Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-41366-7.
  • The Ada Poems, Alfred A Knopf 2010. ISBN 978-0307272478
  • Orbit, Alfred A. Knopf 2017. ISBN 978-0451494726 [7]
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
April 2020 Zarin, Cynthia (December 21, 2020). "April". The New Yorker. 96 (41): 62–63.
Anthologies

Non-fiction

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Children's books

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References

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  1. ^ "Welcome | English".
  2. ^ "Search Results: 1 - 10 of 10". Architectural Digest. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  3. ^ "Cynthia zarin: Contributors : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  4. ^ Macaulay, Alastair (Oct 30, 2014). "Leaping From Within, Narratives of a Young Ensemble". The New York Times. Retrieved Aug 9, 2020.
  5. ^ "Cynthia Zarin, Writer, Weds a Painter on L.I." The New York Times. January 25, 1988.
  6. ^ "WEDDINGS; Cynthia Zarin and Joseph Goddu". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
  7. ^ "Library Journal". Library Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-22. Read this new collection by Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, Zarin, and J.M.W. Turner comes to mind. (Or maybe George Inness.) In particular it recalls Turner's late stage work, when issues of craft have been long resolved, and what we see is pure feeling, sublime and urgent...we are thrust into the eye of the storm by a strong hand. Zarin's fifth collection (After "The Ada Poems") is essential reading for those seeking magic on the page.
  8. ^ Beha, Christopher R. (2013-03-01). "'An Enlarged Heart,' by Cynthia Zarin". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  9. ^ "'An Enlarged Heart' by Cynthia Zarin". BostonGlobe.com. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
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