Authors: Nicholas Delbanco (Editor), Michael Barrett (Editor), Andrea Beauchamp
ISBN-13: 9780472069262, ISBN-10: 0472069268
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."
-Arthur Miller
The Hopwood Awards claim a gallery of prizewinners who rose to become the Who's Who of writers of the last three generations: Max Apple, John Ciardi, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Laura Kasischke, Jane Kenyon, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Ronald Wallace, and Nancy Willard, among many others.
Since they first began in 1931, funded by a bequest from the will of playwright Avery Hopwood, University of Michigan Class of 1905, the Hopwood Awards have grown in profile and stature to become one of the most sought after and celebrated writing prizes for students.
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing collects-for the first time in one volume-poetry and prose by writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan and who went on to achieve fame as writers.
Nicholas Delbanco is Professor of English and Director of the Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Anywhere Out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, Death; The Sincerest Form; and The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures.
Andrea Beauchamp is Program Associate at the Hopwood Program, and Michael Barrett is Associate Editor at the Hopwood Program, University of Michigan.
75, and counting | 1 | |
Where does your music come from? | 7 | |
The rabbi | 24 | |
The year of the child (for my grandson) | 25 | |
Aunt Jemima of the ocean waves | 26 | |
Aunt Mary | 29 | |
The catalpa | 30 | |
The gift | 30 | |
Horror movie | 32 | |
The lost photograph | 34 | |
The poppy | 36 | |
Choices | 37 | |
Animals | 39 | |
A Byzantine place | 39 | |
Poem | 40 | |
Arioso Dolente | 41 | |
John Keats, 1821-1950 | 43 | |
Photograph of my mother sitting on the steps | 44 | |
Colors passing through us | 45 | |
Summer masquerades | 47 | |
Carib's leap | 63 | |
The ladybugs | 67 | |
Swimming lessons | 68 | |
Transparent like the air | 70 | |
To Dorothy on her exclusion from the Guinness Book of World Records | 72 | |
Old men pitching horseshoes | 72 | |
At Paestum | 73 | |
In the backyard | 74 | |
Narcissus | 75 | |
Bridging | 76 | |
Hazard response | 85 | |
November of the plague year | 85 | |
Leonardo as anatomist, repeatedly | 87 | |
Unyieldingly present | 88 | |
The needle | 90 | |
Happiness | 90 | |
Three small oranges | 91 | |
Redundancies | 92 | |
SmackDown! | 93 | |
On the origin of Blind-boy Lilikoi | 94 | |
"Nelson in Nighttown" | 96 | |
Punishment | 108 | |
Terra form | 119 | |
Black dress | 130 | |
Clown | 131 | |
Sharking | 133 | |
Diorama notebook | 143 | |
The cousin in the backyard | 145 | |
Givers and takers | 157 | |
The evening concert | 159 | |
My government | 159 | |
Starting with that time | 161 | |
The old woman and her thief | 163 | |
Lie big | 178 | |
A lovely night | 186 | |
Balance | 190 | |
A rock a fish | 190 | |
Priscilla the Cambodian | 192 |