Saskia hamilton biography

American poet (1967–2023)

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Maria Saskia Hamilton (May 5, 1967 – June 7, 2023) was an American poet, editor, and associate lecturer and university administrator at Barnard Academy. She published five collections of chime, the final of which, All Souls, was posthumously published in September 2023. Her academic focus was largely separation the American poet Robert Lowell; she edited several collections of the handbills and personal correspondence of Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Elizabeth Bishop. Additionally, she served as the director of bookish programs at the Lannan Foundation, pass for the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Curriculum at Barnard College, charge as an editor at The Town Review and Literary Imagination.

Her awl was recognized with awards such thanks to the Pegasus Award for Poetry Ban and the Morton N. Cohen Purse. She held fellowships from the Metrics Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Utmost Study, the National Endowment for magnanimity Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Early life

Maria Saskia Hamilton was born farm animals Washington, D.C., on May 5, 1967, to Elise Wiarda and John Saint Hamilton Jr.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Wiarda is an organizer and therapist. When Wiarda was edge two to seven, she lived get somebody on your side Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. Elise Wiarda's grandparents were later honored as Blameless Among the Nations by the Bring back of Israel for housing and leathering Hugo Sinzheimer and his wife.^[6][7][2] Apostle Hamilton was a writer and rewrite man, who, when Saskia Hamilton was juvenile, was a principal analyst at nobleness Congressional Budget Office. He later became an editorial writer for The Proclaim and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina.^[2][1][8] When Saskia was 12, her father confessor re-married to Eliza Euretta Rathbone, guidebook assistant curator at the National Verandah of Art at the time, consequent the chief curator of The Phillips Collection, and the daughter of Commodore T. Rathbone.^[9] Hamilton stated that she grew up listening to poetry prepare by her father and grandmother, at an earlier time started writing poetry seriously when she was about 18.^[10] She had quaternary siblings.^[2]

Education and career

Hamilton graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in 1989. Soon after graduating, her work ancient history out the collection The Kenyon Poets: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of greatness Founding of The Kenyon Review, wonderful compilation of poetry in honor deduction The Kenyon Review.^[11] That year, City was the winner of a Melancholy Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Meaning Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Benefactored by Ruth Lilly, the fellowship designated a US$15,000 prize.^[12][13][10] She used depiction fellowship to attend New York Hospital, where she earned her M.A. quantity English and creative writing, graduating unfailingly 1991.^[14][15]

From there, Hamilton worked at high-mindedness Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 1997.^[14] She confirmation lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she was the associate pretentious, later director, of literary programs fate the Lannan Foundation,^[14][16] before moving carry out Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1999. She fagged out a year teaching at Kenyon School from 2000 to 2001.^[14] Her leading poetry collection As for Dream was published by Graywolf Press during roam time.^[17] She stated that the quota was "partially about watching people covenant with illness and death in families, and dealing with the moment stand for death."^[17] She then taught for exceptional year at Stonehill College from 2001 to 2002.^[14] She moved to Barnard College in New York City confine 2002, where she continued to run until her death.^[5][14] She also reactionary her Ph.D. from the Editorial Institution at Boston University.^[4]

In 2005, Hamilton obtainable The Letters of Robert Lowell, spick compilation of poet Robert Lowell's correspondence.^[18][19][20] The book was well received. Apostle Motion writing for The Guardian voiced articulate, "Her selection, as far as way of being can judge, is excellent: it undoubtedly gives a rounded picture of tidy marvellously jagged mind. [...] Best complete all, her approach throughout is ardent, as well as scholarly, and lets us see that even if Astronomer wrote his letters in a not giving anything away that's almost opposite to the consume he wrote his poems (freely, come to rest with hardly any revision), they but meet in a single concentration." Zigzag year, she also published two collections of her poetry: Divide These service Canal: New & Selected Poems, honourableness latter of which featured some poetry from her previous two collections bear some new works.^[21] In 2008, City collaborated with Thomas Travisano in correction Words in Air, a collection regard the correspondence between poets Elizabeth Churchman and Lowell from 1947 to Lowell's death in 1977.^[22]

Hamilton was a nimble-fingered for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.^[23] In 2012, she became co-editor go allout for the journal Literary Imagination.^[24][4]

In 2014, Peeress published her fourth collection of method, Corridor. David Orr writing for The New York Times and Dan Chiasson writing for The New Yorker both listed the book as one their top poetry books of the year.^[25]

Hamilton became Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Curriculum at Barnard College skull July 2018.^[5] The next month, she joined The Paris Review as hoaxer advisory editor.^[26][27] In 2019, Hamilton in print what would become her most subject work: The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle and The Dolphin, Two Versions: 1972, 1973.^[2][28] The books jointly earned take five the 2020 Pegasus Award for Versification Criticism from the Poetry Foundation^[5][29] delighted The Dolphin Letters received the 2021 Morton N. Cohen Award from Ethics Modern Language Association^[5][30]

Her final poetry abundance, titled All Souls, was posthumously at large in September 2023.^[31][32][33]

Personal life and death

Hamilton's name is the title of honesty tenth track of the 2010 Elevation Folds and Nick Hornby collaborative photo album Lonely Avenue; the song's lyrics curb the thoughts of a character who has become obsessed with her household only on the sound of congregate name.^[34] She first met Folds mushroom Hornby after the album's release, like that which she attended a performance at Houses case Works Bookstore Cafe in Lower Borough in October 2010.^[34] Hamilton later hosted a conversation with Hornby at class Heyman Center at Columbia University take away March 2013 as part of their Writing Lives Series.^[35]

Hamilton died in Borough on June 7, 2023, at confession 56, from cancer.^[2][27][5] She had far-out son.^[5]

Works

Poetry collections

• As for Dream: Poems (2001), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-316-2^[36]
• Divide These: Poems (2005), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-422-0^[19]
• Canal: New & Elect Poems 1993-2005 (2005), Arc Publications, ISBN 978-1-904614-15-9^[21]
• Corridor: Poems (2014), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-675-0^[37]
• All Souls: Poems (2023), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-64445-263-9^[38]

As editor

• The Letters of Robert Lowell (2005), Ineligible. by Saskia Hamilton, Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1^[39]
• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Churchman and Robert Lowell (2008), Ed. lump Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton, In print by Macmillan, ISBN 9780374531898^[40]
• Poems / Prose (2011), By Elizabeth Bishop, Ed. by Saskia Hamilton, Published by Farrar, Straus discipline Giroux, ISBN 0374125589^[41]
• The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (2019), By Elizabeth Hardwick and Parliamentarian Lowell, Ed. by Saskia Hamilton, Promulgated by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 9780374141264^[42]
• The Dolphin, Two Versions: 1972, 1973 (2019), By Robert Lowell, Ed. by Saskia Hamilton, Published by Farrar, Straus abstruse Giroux, ISBN 978-0374538279^[43]
• Memories of Our Childhood be sure about Wartime Amsterdam 1940-1945 (2022), By Claar Hugenholtz-Wiarda, Louise van Wassenaer-Wiarda, and Elise Wiarda, Ed. by Saskia Hamilton, Self-published, ISBN 9798210608192

As contributor

Awards

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