Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde ( b. 1945 in Boston, United States) is an American writer who works primarily as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.

Life

Lewis Hyde was born in 1945 in Boston. He studied literature and sociology at universities in Minnesota and Iowa. In order to fulfill his career aspirations as a writer, he worked among others as teachers, electricians and carpenters.

His first book was published in 1975. For six years he taught creative writing at Harvard University.

He was editor of works by Allen Ginsberg and Henry D. Thoreau and translator of poems by Vicente Aleixandre.

In 1991 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Lewis Hyde is married.

Work (selection)

  • Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the booze talking, 1975, Essays.
  • This error is the sign of love, 1988, lyric.
  • Common as air: revolution, art, and ownership, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-22313-7
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