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J.D. McClatchy

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born

January 01, 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

gender

male

website

http://jdmcclatchy.com/

genre

Poetry

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McClatchy is an adjunct professor at Yale University and editor of the Yale Review. He also edits the "Voice of the Poet" series for Random House AudioBooks.

His book Hazmat (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. He has written texts for musical settings, including eight opera libretti, for such composers as Elliot Goldenthal, Daron Hagen, Lowell Liebermann, Lorin Maazel, Tobias Picker, Ned Rorem, Bruce Saylor, and William Schuman. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1991). He has also been one of the New York Public Literary Lions, and received the 2000 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award.

In 1999, he was elected into the membership of The American Academy of Arts...more

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Books by J.D. McClatchy

Average rating: 4.07 · 1,271 ratings · 147 reviews · 58 distinct works

	The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry 3.91 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings by J.D. McClatchy (Editor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4.02 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry 4.19 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poems of the Sea 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Poets on Painters 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hazmat 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	American Writers at Home by J.D. McClatchy, Erica Lennard (Photographs) 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.”
― J.D. McClatchy

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