David Rivard

David Rivard (born 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American poet. He is the author of six books including Wise Poison, winner the 1996 James Laughlin Award, and Standoff, winner the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry.[1] He is also a Professor of English Creative Writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of New Hampshire.[2]

David Rivard
BornFall River, Massachusetts, United States
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenrePoetry
Notable worksWise Poison
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly.

Awards

Works
  • "Bewitched Playground". Poetry.
  • "Fall River". Poetry.
  • "Late?". Poetry.
  • "Question for the Bride". Poetry.
  • "Going". Poetry.
  • "Zeus and Apollo". Poetry.
  • "Torque". Poetry.

Ploughshares

Books
  • Standoff, (Graywolf Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-55597-745-0
  • Otherwise Elsewhere, (Graywolf Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-55597-573-9
  • Sugartown, (Graywolf Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-55597-435-0
  • Bewitched Playground, (Graywolf Press, 2000) ISBN 978-1-55597-302-5
  • Wise Poison, (Graywolf Press, 1996) ISBN 978-1-55597-247-9
  • Torque (1987), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series.

Criticism

Reviews

To the extent that poems are all, implicitly or explicitly, narrations of a lyric impulse, they are untoward. They are about something, to paraphrase Allen Grossman, the way a cat is about a house. Each poem in Wise Poison passes through so many shifts of narrative direction that no usual sense of destination survives; rather, directional moves are replaced by an accumulation of patterns of change (changes in tense, changes in figuration, changes in overlay of image, curves of memory in cloverleaf). The very notion of passage (temporal, spatial, literary) is redirected by the mind into mind, the outgoing waves traced back to an in-house organ.[4]

References
  1. "David Rivard". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  2. "David Rivard". University of New Hampshire. University of New Hampshire. 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  3. "404". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  4. Heather McHugh (1997). "In Other Words: The Poetry of David Rivard". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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