Jack Marshall (author)
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Early life
Jack Marshall was born in February 25, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He was raised speaking Arabic in a Mizrahi Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture.[3] His father worked in the fabric industry.[4] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighborhood.
Marshall attended Brooklyn College, where he studied literature.[4] The Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) is where he attended night classes in poetry in 1960 with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[4][5]
Career and accolades
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn.[6]
He is the recipient of two Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Personal life
He has lived in El Cerrito, California since the early 2000s.[7]
Works
- The Darkest Continent, For Now Press, (1967)
- Bearings, Harper & Row, (1970)
- Floats, Cedar Creek Press, (1971).
- Bits of Thirst, Blue Wind Press, (1976)
- Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise, Jazz Press, (1983)
- Arabian Nights, Coffee House Press, (1987)
- Sesame, Coffee House Press, (1993)[8]
- Millennium Fever, Coffee House Press, (1996)
- Chaos Comics, Pennywhistle Press, (1994)
- Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, (2002)
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn Coffee House Press, (October 1, 2005) Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall
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- ↑ 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup, Kathleen Maclay, UCBerkleyNews
- ↑ What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall
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External links
- From Baghdad to BrooklynTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- Living people
- 1936 births
- American male poets
- American writers of Iraqi descent
- American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
- American people of Syrian-Jewish descent
- American writers of Syrian descent
- American people of Syrian descent
- American people of Iraqi descent
- Iraqi Jews
- Jewish American poets
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
- American poets
- American Arabic-language poets
- 21st-century American Jews