1957 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

Events
  • January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, almost 40 years his junior, in a private church ceremony.
  • March 15 – Élet és Irodalom first published in Hungary as a literary magazine.
  • March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity.[1] On October 3, in People v. Ferlinghetti, a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene.[2] The trial brings significant attention to the participants and other poets of the Beat Generation.
  • Ginsberg surprises the literary world by abandoning San Francisco. After a spell in Morocco, he and Peter Orlovsky move to Paris, France, at the suggestion of Gregory Corso, who introduces them to a shabby lodging house above a bar at 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur kept by Mme Rachou, where they are soon joined by William S. Burroughs and others, including young painters, writers and black jazz musicians. The building becomes known as the "Beat Hotel". The writers' time here is a productive, creative period for many of them. Here, Ginsberg finishes his poem "Kaddish", Corso composes "Bomb" and "Marriage", and Burroughs (with Ginsberg and Corso's help) puts together the novel Naked Lunch from previous writings. Corso returns to New York in 1958; the "hotel" closes in 1963; and Ginsberg and Orlovsky leave for travels to India in 1967.
  • Autumn – Black Mountain Review literary magazine folds.[3]
  • Shi'r ("Poetry") magazine is founded in Beirut by Syrian-born poets Yusuf al-Khal and 'Adunis'.[4] The journal is a showcase for experimental Arabic poetry as well as translations of poetry from European languages.[5]

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada

India, in English

New Zealand
Main article: Literature of New Zealand
  • James K. Baxter, The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing, a parody of 17 New Zealand poets, which some of his fellow poets greeted with acrimony
  • James K. Baxter, Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman, The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love, Wellington: Capricorn Press
  • Charles Brasch: The Estate, and Other Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press[15]
  • Allen Curnow, Poems 1949–57 [16]
  • Louis Johnson, New Worlds for Old[17]
  • W. H. Oliver, Fire Without Phoenix: Poems 1946–1954, Christchurch: Caxton Press

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
  • Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound, the first guide to Pound's Cantos
  • William Carlos Williams, The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirwall
  • William Butler Yeats, Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats, edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, New York: Macmillan (posthumous)[23]

Other in English
  • D. Stewart and N. Keesing, editors, Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times, anthology (Australia)[24]

Works in other languages

Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada, in French
  • Claude Fournier, Le Ciel fermé
  • Pierre Trotier, Poèmes de Russie
  • Reginald Boisvert, Le Temps de vivre
  • Maurice Beaulieu, À glaise fendre
  • Jean-Guy Pilon, L'homme et le jour, Montréal: l'Hexagone[25]
  • Rina Lasnier, Présence de l'absence

France

Germany
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Verteidigung der Wölfe (his debut work)
  • Peter Gan, Schachbrett
  • Doris Mühringer, Gedichte I
  • Margot Scharpenberg, Gefährliche Uebung
  • Benno von Weise, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik: Form und Geschichte. Interpretationen ("German poetry: Form and history. Interpretations"), two volumes, Düsseldorf (criticism)[30]

Hebrew
  • N. Alterman, Ir ha-Yona ("City of the Dove")
  • Moses ibn Ezra, Shirai ha-Kodesh le-Moshe Ibn Ezra ("The Sacred Poems of Moses Ibn Ezra"), edited by Simon Bernstein, the first comprehensive collection
  • Ephraim Lisitzky, Negohot ma-Arafel ("Light through the Mist")
  • Yaakov Schteinberg, Kol Kitvai Yaakov Schteinberg ("Complete Works")
  • Aaron Zeitlin, Ben ha-Esh ve-Hayesha ("Between Fire and Redemption")

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Portugal

Brazil
Main article: Literature of Brazil

Chile

Latin America

Spain
Main article: Spanish literature
Spanish anthologies
  • R. Menendez Pidal, editor, Espana y su historia
  • J.M. Blecua, Floresta lírica espanola

Yiddish
  • Yankev Glatshteyn, Fun mayn gantser mi ("Of All My Labor, Selected Poems, 1919-1956")
  • A. Leyeles, Baym fus fun barg ("At the Foot of the Mountain")
  • Khos Kliger, Peyzazhn fun Yisroel ("Israel Landscapes")

Other languages

Awards and honors

Canada
  • Governor General's Awards: Robert A.D. Ford, A Window on the North
  • President's Medal for a single poem: Jay Macpherson, The Fisherman — A Book of Riddles

United Kingdom

United States

Poetry Magazine awards
  • Levinson Prize: Thom Gunn
  • Oscar Blumenthal Prize: William Carlos Williams
  • Eunice Tietjens Prize: James Wright
  • Bess Hokin Prize: Philip Booth
  • Union League Civic and Arts Foundation prize: Anne Ridler
  • Vachel Lindsay Prize:
  • Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize: John Ciardi

Poetry Society of America awards

Other
  • Fastenrath Prize (Spain) for the best poetry published in the past four years: J. García Nieto, La red

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

Notes
  1. Rehlaender, Jamie L. (2015-04-28). "A Howl of Free Expression: the 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation". Young Historians Conference. Portland State University. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  2. King, Lydia Hailman (2007-10-03). "'Howl' obscenity prosecution still echoes 50 years later". Nashville: First Amendment Center. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  3. Everett, Nicholas. "Robert Creeley's Life and Career". Modern American Poetry. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
  4. Irwin, Robert (2005-01-03). "An Arab Surrealist". The Nation. pp. 23–24, 37–38.
  5. Shatz, Adam (2002-07-13). "An Arab Poet Who Dares to Differ". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  6. Gustafson, Ralph (1967). The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse (revised ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books.
  7. "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
  8. "Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922: Works," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 6, 2011
  9. "F. R. Scott: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  10. Preminger, Alex; T.V.F. Brogan; et al., eds. (1993). "Canadian Poetry: English "Anthologies"". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press and MJF Books. p. 164.
  11. Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1970). The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) (2006 reprint ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 313. ISBN 81-260-1196-3. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
  12. Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1970). The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) (2006 reprint ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 323. ISBN 81-260-1196-3. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
  13. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, ed. (2003). A History of Indian literature in English. Columbia University Press. p. 250. ISBN 0-231-12810-X. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
  14. Naik, M. K. (1984). Perspectives on Indian poetry in English. Abhinav Publications. p. 230. ISBN 0-391-03286-0. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
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  26. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
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