John Malcolm Brinnin

John Malcolm Brinnin (* September 13 1916 in Halifax, Canada, † 25 June 1998, Key West ) was a Canadian- American writer.

Life

Brinnins parents moved with him to Detroit in 1921 in the U.S., where he later attended the University of Michigan. He moonlighted as a bookseller in Ann Arbor and gave the magazine 1936-1938 Signatures out. At Harvard University, he received his M. A. Between 1949 to 1956 was Brinnin director of the " Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Poetry Center". He took Dylan Thomas 1949-1953 several times from Wales to reading tours in the U.S. and accompanied him on his readings, but he could not curb alcoholism and physical deterioration Thomas '. Brinnin wrote a monograph on Thomas, also on TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote and William Carlos Williams.

Brinnin has published seven volumes of own poetry until 1970, but then wrote, so his friend Richard Wilbur, dear books about traveling, he crossed the Atlantic sixty times. He compiled three anthologies of modern American and British poetry and was invited as a lecturer at various universities, so at Vassar College, Boston University, the University of Connecticut and Harvard University.

Works (selection)

  • Dylan Thomas in America: The slow death of a poet. From the Amerikan. speak. Hanns Krammer. Bremen: Schünemann, 1962
  • The third rose: Gertrude Stein and her world. From the Amerikan. speak. by Maria Wolff. Stuttgart: Goverts, 1960
  • The Garden is Political. New York, The Macmillan company, 1942
  • The Lincoln Lyrics. Norfolk, Conn.. : New Directions, 1942
  • No Arch, No triumph. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1945
  • The Sorrows of Cold Stone. Westport, Conn. , Greenwood Press 1951
  • Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin. Boston, Little, Brown 1963
  • Anthology The modern poets, an American - British: Bill Read ( eds.). With photos by Rollie McKenna. New York, McGraw-Hill 1963
  • Skin Diving in the Virgins and Other Poems. New York, Delacorte Press 1970
  • The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic. 1971 with Kenneth Gaulin: Grand Hotels in the oceans: The golden era of luxury liners. German by Marcus Wuermli. Editing by Peter Pedersen. Heyne, München 1988
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