Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an
American poet and professor of English. Irving Feldman
Born September 22, 1928
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New
Academic career York, U.S.
Occupation(s) Poet and Professor of English
Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York,
Children Fernando Feldman
Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand,
and factory worker through his university
education.[1] After an undergraduate education at the City College of New York (B.A., 1950), Feldman
completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953.[1] His first academic appointments
were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental
United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of
English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually
appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004.
Published works
Works and Days (1961), Little, Brown Book Group.
The Pripet Marshes (1965), Viking.
Magic Papers and Other Poems (1970), Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0030914645
Lost Originals (1972) Holf, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0030914645
Leaping Clear and Other Poems (1976), Viking.
New and Selected Poems (1979), Viking. ISBN 978-0030914638
Teach Me, Dear Sister (1983), Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0802136572
All of Us Here and Other Poems (1986), Penguin Books.
The Life and Letters (1994), University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226240671
Beautiful False Things: Poems (2000), Grove Press. ISBN 978-0802136572
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 (2004), Shocken. ISBN 978-0805242294
Usable Truths: Aphorisms & Observations (2019), Waywiser Press. ISBN 978-1-904130-99-
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Awards and honors
Irving Feldman has received a number of accolades for his poetry which include the Guggenheim
Fellowship, the National Institute of Arts & Letters award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship,[2]
Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts grant.[3] In 1992, he
was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[4]
He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for Works and Days
and Other Poems.[5]
References
1. Wheatcroft, John (March 1991). Our other voices: Nine poets speaking. Bucknell University
Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8387-5196-1.
2. "Irving Feldman" (http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/irving-feldman). Retrieved October 12,
2014.
3. "Irving Feldman" (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/irving-feldman). Retrieved
October 12, 2014.
4. "MacArthur Fellows - July 1992" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110116042327/http://www.
macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142707/k.296C/Fellows_List__July_1992.htm). John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Archived from the original (http://www.macfound.
org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142707/k.296C/Fellows_List__July_1992.htm) on January 16,
2011. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
5. "Past Winners" (https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/pas
t-winners?year=1962). Jewish Book Council. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
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