| Jack Marshall | |
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| Born | 1936 Brooklyn, United States |
Jack Marshall (born 1936 in Brooklyn, United States) is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage, [1] who had an arranged marriage. He grew up speaking Arabic in a Sephardic Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arabic and Jewish culture.[2] While growing up as well as attending public school he also attended Hebrew school in his neighbourhood. He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage, Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America along with Millennium Fever:Poems proved very successful. He was awarded winner of the PEN West Award and also a finalist nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn. [3] Jack had discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he used to attend night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[4]He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he was interested in. He currently resides in Bay Area.
Works
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn (2005)
- Gorgeous Chaos: New and Selected Poems (1965-2001)
- Sesame (1993)
- Millennium Fever: Poems
References
- ^ http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/09/06_eventspreview2.shtml
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Brooklyn-Jewish-Arabic-Midcentury-America/dp/1566891744
- ^ http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/whats-new.php/2006/12/01/lunch_poems_reading_by_jack_marshall
- ^ http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/08/31_lunchpoems.shtml
