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Max Wickert

April 12, 2024

Max Wickert (born May 26, 1938, Augsburg, Germany) is a German-American teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He is Professor of English Emeritus at the University at Buffalo.[1]

Max Wickert
Born
Maxalbrecht Wickert

(1938-05-26) May 26, 1938 (age 85)
Augsburg, Germany
Academic background
Alma materSt. Bonaventure University (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish Literature
Poetry
InstitutionsNazareth College (1962–1965)
University at Buffalo (since 1966)

Early life and education edit

Max Wickert was born Maxalbrecht Wickert in Augsburg, Germany, the oldest child of Stephan Phillip Wickert, an artist and art teacher (later industrial designer), and Thilde (Kellner) Wickert. Four younger children, all sisters, were born between 1940 and 1946. In 1943, he was evacuated to Langenneufnach, a small farming village after the Augsburg raid. He received his early education in Langenneufnach, Passau, and Augsburg. In 1952, his family immigrated to Rochester, New York, where he completed high school at the Aquinas Institute.

After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Bonaventure University and completed graduate work in English at Yale University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, studying under Cleanth Brooks, E. Talbot Donaldson, Davis P. Harding, Frederick W. Hilles, John C. Pope, Eugene Waith, W.K. Wimsatt, and Alexander Witherspoon. He completed a dissertation on William Morris under the direction of William Clyde DeVane and received his Ph.D. in 1965. At Yale, while working as a reader for Penny Poems under Al Shavzin and Don Mull,[2] he began writing poetry and briefly met Gregory Corso and Amiri Baraka (then Leroi Jones).

Career edit

His first teaching appointment was at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York (1962–1965).

Upon arrival in Buffalo, Max Wickert formed close friendships with a number of writers who were then students or fellow teachers, including Dan Murray, Shreela Ray, Robert Hass and

John Logan. Other significant colleagues at Buffalo were poets Robert Creeley, Irving Feldman, Mac Hammond and Bill Sylvester; novelists John Barth, J. M. Coetzee (his office mate for a year), and Carlene Polite; and critics Albert Spaulding Cook, Leslie Fiedler, Lionel Abel, and Dwight Macdonald.

For the English department, he has served as director of undergraduate studies and as chair of the Charles D. Abbott Poetry Readings Committee. He also helped to establish and frequently judged the university's annual Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize Competition. With Dan Murray and Doug Eichhorn, he founded the Outriders Poetry Project in 1968 and has been its director ever since. (Outriders, originally a sponsor of poetry readings in Buffalo bistros, became a small press in 2009.)[3]

Between 1968 and 1972, he published verse translations from the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl, and from various German poets. In collaboration with Hubert Kulterer, he also translated 1001 Ways to Live Without Working, by the American Beat poet Tuli Kupferberg, into German.

During the early 1970s, he wrote essays on early opera and briefly worked as a radio station host for WBFO's "The World of Opera." His short story, The Scythe of Saturn was a prize-winner in the 1983 Stand Magazine (Newcastle upon Tyne) Fiction Competition.[citation needed] Over the years, over 100 of Max Wickert’s poems and translation have appeared in journals, including American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography,[4] The Lyric,[5] Malahat Review, Michigan Review, Pequod,[6] Poetry (magazine), Chicago Review, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah (magazine) and Xanadu,[7] as well as in several anthologies.

As a scholar, Max Wickert produced a handful of articles and conference papers on Spenser, Shakespeare and early opera, but was principally known as a teacher of a lower-division course on Dante’s Divine Comedy and of an Intensive Survey of English Literature, a seminar of his own design for specially motivated majors. Among his students were Neil Baldwin,[8] Michael Basinski, Charles Baxter, and Patricia Gill.[9]

In 1985, he received an NEH Summer Fellowship to the Dartmouth Dante Institute, and for several summers thereafter pursued intensive study of Italian at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. He has since turned increasingly to translation from Italian. He published The Liberation of Jerusalem,[10] a verse translation of Torquato Tasso’s epic, Gerusalemme liberata, in 2008, and a year later completed translations of a medieval prose romance, Andrea da Barberino’s Reali di Francia (The Royal House of France) and of Università per Stranieri (University for Aliens) by the contemporary Italian poet, Daniela Margheriti. His edition and verse translation of Tasso's early love poems (Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio) appeared in 2011, followed in 2017 by his version of Tasso’s first epic, Rinaldo, both published by Italica Press.

Personal life edit

As a professor at Nazareth College, Wickert married one of his students. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969. A daughter, now a psychologist working in Massachusetts, was born in 1965. He remarried in 2006, and lives with his wife Katka Hammond in downtown Buffalo. His youngest sister, Gabriele Wickert, a college professor of German literature, taught at Manhattanville College until her retirement in 2019.

Published books edit

  • All the Weight of the Still Midnight[11] (Buffalo, NY: Outriders Poetry Project, 1972; poems)
  • Pat Sonnets[11] (Sound Beach, NY: Street Press, 2000; poems)
  • The Liberation of Jerusalem ([[[12]]]: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008; verse translation of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata)
  • (with Hubert Kulterer), 1001 Wege ohne Arbeit zu leben (Vienna [Austria]: Eröffnungen, 1972) and Wenzendorf [Germany]: Stadtlichter Presse,[13] 2009, 2nd. ed. 2015; translation of Tuli Kupferberg’s 1001 Ways to Live Without Working
  • No Cartoons (Buffalo, NY: Outriders Poetry Project, 2011; poems)
  • Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio (New York, NY: Italica Press, 2011; edition and verse translation from Torquato Tasso's Rime d'Amore)
  • Rinaldo by Torquato Tasso (New York, NY: Italica Press, 2017; A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text, Critical Introduction and Notes)

Selected publications edit

Articles edit

  • "Structure and Ceremony in Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion'", ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, XXXV:2 (June, 1968), 135-5.
  • "Karl Mickel: A Voice from East Germany, Books Abroad, XLIII:2 (Spring, 1969), 211-12.
  • "Librettos and Academies: Some Speculations and an Example", Opera Journal, VII:4 (1974), 6-16.
  • "Bellini’s Orpheus", Opera Journal, IX:4 (1976), 11-18.
  • "Orpheus Dismembered: Operatic Myth Goes Underground", Salmagundi (magazine), XXVIII/XXXIX (Summer/Fall, 1977), 118-136.
  • "Che Farò Senza Euridyce: Myth and Meaning in Early Opera", Opera Journal, XI: 1 (1978), 18-35.

Verse and fiction (selection) edit

  • "Dawn Scene", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #6 (1970), p. 46.
  • "Three Poems", Descant, XIV (Winter, 1970), pp.13–15.
  • "Warning", "For Esther", "He is the Mother" and "The Months", Michigan Quarterly Review, X:3 (Summer, 1971), pp. 195–99.
  • "Nocturne" and "Aubade", Poetry (magazine), CXIX:4 (January, 1972), pp. 218–19.
  • "Two Polemics of Departure", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #7/8 (1972), pp. 310–11.
  • "Is This Typical?" Street, II:2 (1976), p. 58.
  • "Born Lucky", American Poetry Review VIIL:4 (July/August, 1978), p. 22.
  • "Goodbye" and "More Slowly", Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography, #10 (1978), pp. 256–7.
  • from the "Pat Sonnets", Poetry (magazine), LXXXVII:1 (October, 1980), pp. 18–21.
  • "Dawn Song", Pequod (Winter, 1980), p. 8.
  • "A Little Satori Take", Berkeley Poetry Review, #13 (Spring, 1980), p. 22.
  • "Parallax, Twenty-two-hundred Hours" and "Letters to Your Grandfather", Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review, VIII:2 (Fall, 1980), pp. 43, 58.
  • "Slugabed", Xanadu, #8 (1982), p. 34.
  • "Two Poems", Pembroke Magazine, #14 (1983), pp. 42–43.
  • from the "Pat Sonnets", Poetry (magazine), CXL:1 (April,1982), pp. 8–11.
  • "Two Poems", Shenandoah (magazine), XXXIII:2 (Winter, 1983), pp. 53–54.
  • "Pastoral", The Lyric, LXIII:1 (Winter, 1983), p. 14.
  • "Three Sonnets from The Unholy Weeks", Shenandoah (magazine), XXXV:1 (1983-4), pp. 52–53.
  • "Parsifal", Sewanee Review, XCII:4 (Fall,1984), pp. 541–42.
  • "The Scythe of Saturn" (fiction) in: Michael Blackburn, Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy (ed.), Stand One (London: Victor Gollancz, 1984), pp. 93–115.

Fellowships and awards edit

  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1957–58
  • NYS Research Foundation Grant-in-Aid, 1968 (for Trakl translations)
  • Co-Winner, New Poets Prize, Chowan University, 1980
  • Co-Winner, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Poets-on-Paintings Competition, 1982
  • Co-Winner, Mason Sonnet Award, World Order of Narrative Poets, 1983
  • Co-Winner, Burchfield Penney Art Center Poetry Competition, Buffalo, NY 1983
  • Honorable Mention, Stand Short Story Competition, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1983
  • NEH Summer Fellowship, Dartmouth Dante Institute, Summer 1986

References edit

  1. ^ "Emeritus Faculty". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  2. ^ Grover Amen and John Updike, The Talk of the Town, “Pomes Pennyeach,” The New Yorker, October 24, 1959, p. 36 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1959/10/24/1959_10_24_036_TNY_CARDS_000264094
  3. ^ Outriders website: http://outriderspoetryproject.com/
  4. ^ Choice:6: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography. Choice Magazine.
  5. ^ "Home". thelyricmagazine.com.
  6. ^ "Small Press Detail: Pequod Press Inc (DELETED) - the NYSCA Literary Map of New York State and the NYSCA Literary Tree".
  7. ^ "Home". lccc.edu.
  8. ^ "Home". neilbaldwinbooks.com.
  9. ^ "Patricia Gill | Department of Gender & Women Studies at Illinois".
  10. ^ http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/WorldLiterature/Italy/?view=usa&ci=9780199535354 [dead link]
  11. ^ a b "Department of English".[dead link]
  12. ^ Oxford University Press
  13. ^ . www.stadtlichter-presse.de. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.

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fiction selection 6 Fellowships and awards 7 ReferencesEarly life and education editMax Wickert was born Maxalbrecht Wickert in Augsburg Germany the oldest child of Stephan Phillip Wickert an artist and art teacher later industrial designer and Thilde Kellner Wickert Four younger children all sisters were born between 1940 and 1946 In 1943 he was evacuated to Langenneufnach a small farming village after the Augsburg raid He received his early education in Langenneufnach Passau and Augsburg In 1952 his family immigrated to Rochester New York where he completed high school at the Aquinas Institute After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from St Bonaventure University and completed graduate work in English at Yale University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship studying under Cleanth Brooks E Talbot Donaldson Davis P Harding Frederick W Hilles John C Pope Eugene Waith W K Wimsatt and Alexander Witherspoon He completed a dissertation on William Morris under the direction of William Clyde DeVane and received his Ph D in 1965 At Yale while working as a reader for Penny Poems under Al Shavzin and Don Mull 2 he began writing poetry and briefly met Gregory Corso and Amiri Baraka then Leroi Jones Career editHis first teaching appointment was at Nazareth College in Rochester New York 1962 1965 Upon arrival in Buffalo Max Wickert formed close friendships with a number of writers who were then students or fellow teachers including Dan Murray Shreela Ray Robert Hass andJohn Logan Other significant colleagues at Buffalo were poets Robert Creeley Irving Feldman Mac Hammond and Bill Sylvester novelists John Barth J M Coetzee his office mate for a year and Carlene Polite and critics Albert Spaulding Cook Leslie Fiedler Lionel Abel and Dwight Macdonald For the English department he has served as director of undergraduate studies and as chair of the Charles D Abbott Poetry Readings Committee He also helped to establish and frequently judged the university s annual Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize Competition With Dan Murray and Doug Eichhorn he founded the Outriders Poetry Project in 1968 and has been its director ever since Outriders originally a sponsor of poetry readings in Buffalo bistros became a small press in 2009 3 Between 1968 and 1972 he published verse translations from the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl and from various German poets In collaboration with Hubert Kulterer he also translated 1001 Ways to Live Without Working by the American Beat poet Tuli Kupferberg into German During the early 1970s he wrote essays on early opera and briefly worked as a radio station host for WBFO s The World of Opera His short story The Scythe of Saturn was a prize winner in the 1983 Stand Magazine Newcastle upon Tyne Fiction Competition citation needed Over the years over 100 of Max Wickert s poems and translation have appeared in journals including American Poetry Review Chicago Review Choice A Magazine of Poetry and Photography 4 The Lyric 5 Malahat Review Michigan Review Pequod 6 Poetry magazine Chicago Review Sewanee Review Shenandoah magazine and Xanadu 7 as well as in several anthologies As a scholar Max Wickert produced a handful of articles and conference papers on Spenser Shakespeare and early opera but was principally known as a teacher of a lower division course on Dante s Divine Comedy and of an Intensive Survey of English Literature a seminar of his own design for specially motivated majors Among his students were Neil Baldwin 8 Michael Basinski Charles Baxter and Patricia Gill 9 In 1985 he received an NEH Summer Fellowship to the Dartmouth Dante Institute and for several summers thereafter pursued intensive study of Italian at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia Italy He has since turned increasingly to translation from Italian He published The Liberation of Jerusalem 10 a verse translation of Torquato Tasso s epic Gerusalemme liberata in 2008 and a year later completed translations of a medieval prose romance Andrea da Barberino s Reali di Francia The Royal House of France and of Universita per Stranieri University for Aliens by the contemporary Italian poet Daniela Margheriti His edition and verse translation of Tasso s early love poems Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio appeared in 2011 followed in 2017 by his version of Tasso s first epic Rinaldo both published by Italica Press Personal life editAs a professor at Nazareth College Wickert married one of his students The marriage ended in divorce in 1969 A daughter now a psychologist working in Massachusetts was born in 1965 He remarried in 2006 and lives with his wife Katka Hammond in downtown Buffalo His youngest sister Gabriele Wickert a college professor of German literature taught at Manhattanville College until her retirement in 2019 Published books editAll the Weight of the Still Midnight 11 Buffalo NY Outriders Poetry Project 1972 poems Pat Sonnets 11 Sound Beach NY Street Press 2000 poems The Liberation of Jerusalem 12 Oxford World s Classics 2008 verse translation of Torquato Tasso s Gerusalemme liberata with Hubert Kulterer 1001 Wege ohne Arbeit zu leben Vienna Austria Eroffnungen 1972 and Wenzendorf Germany Stadtlichter Presse 13 2009 2nd ed 2015 translation of Tuli Kupferberg s 1001 Ways to Live Without Working No Cartoons Buffalo NY Outriders Poetry Project 2011 poems Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio New York NY Italica Press 2011 edition and verse translation from Torquato Tasso s Rime d Amore Rinaldo by Torquato Tasso New York NY Italica Press 2017 A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text Critical Introduction and Notes Selected publications editArticles edit Structure and Ceremony in Spenser s Epithalamion ELH A Journal of English Literary History XXXV 2 June 1968 135 5 Karl Mickel A Voice from East Germany Books Abroad XLIII 2 Spring 1969 211 12 Librettos and Academies Some Speculations and an Example Opera Journal VII 4 1974 6 16 Bellini s Orpheus Opera Journal IX 4 1976 11 18 Orpheus Dismembered Operatic Myth Goes Underground Salmagundi magazine XXVIII XXXIX Summer Fall 1977 118 136 Che Faro Senza Euridyce Myth and Meaning in Early Opera Opera Journal XI 1 1978 18 35 Verse and fiction selection edit Dawn Scene Choice A Magazine of Poetry and Photography 6 1970 p 46 Three Poems Descant XIV Winter 1970 pp 13 15 Warning For Esther He is the Mother and The Months Michigan Quarterly Review X 3 Summer 1971 pp 195 99 Nocturne and Aubade Poetry magazine CXIX 4 January 1972 pp 218 19 Two Polemics of Departure Choice A Magazine of Poetry and Photography 7 8 1972 pp 310 11 Is This Typical Street II 2 1976 p 58 Born Lucky American Poetry Review VIIL 4 July August 1978 p 22 Goodbye and More Slowly Choice A Magazine of Poetry and Photography 10 1978 pp 256 7 from the Pat Sonnets Poetry magazine LXXXVII 1 October 1980 pp 18 21 Dawn Song Pequod Winter 1980 p 8 A Little Satori Take Berkeley Poetry Review 13 Spring 1980 p 22 Parallax Twenty two hundred Hours and Letters to Your Grandfather Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review VIII 2 Fall 1980 pp 43 58 Slugabed Xanadu 8 1982 p 34 Two Poems Pembroke Magazine 14 1983 pp 42 43 from the Pat Sonnets Poetry magazine CXL 1 April 1982 pp 8 11 Two Poems Shenandoah magazine XXXIII 2 Winter 1983 pp 53 54 Pastoral The Lyric LXIII 1 Winter 1983 p 14 Three Sonnets from The Unholy Weeks Shenandoah magazine XXXV 1 1983 4 pp 52 53 Parsifal Sewanee Review XCII 4 Fall 1984 pp 541 42 The Scythe of Saturn fiction in Michael Blackburn Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy ed Stand One London Victor Gollancz 1984 pp 93 115 Fellowships and awards editWoodrow Wilson Fellowship 1957 58 NYS Research Foundation Grant in Aid 1968 for Trakl translations Co Winner New Poets Prize Chowan University 1980 Co Winner Albright Knox Gallery Buffalo NY Poets on Paintings Competition 1982 Co Winner Mason Sonnet Award World Order of Narrative Poets 1983 Co Winner Burchfield Penney Art Center Poetry Competition Buffalo NY 1983 Honorable Mention Stand Short Story Competition Newcastle upon Tyne England 1983 NEH Summer Fellowship Dartmouth Dante Institute Summer 1986References edit Emeritus Faculty www buffalo edu Retrieved 2020 06 01 Grover Amen and John Updike The Talk of the Town Pomes Pennyeach The New Yorker October 24 1959 p 36 http www newyorker com archive 1959 10 24 1959 10 24 036 TNY CARDS 000264094 Outriders website http outriderspoetryproject com Choice 6 A Magazine of Poetry and Photography Choice Magazine Home thelyricmagazine com Small Press Detail Pequod Press Inc DELETED the NYSCA Literary Map of New York State and the NYSCA Literary Tree Home lccc edu Home neilbaldwinbooks com Patricia Gill Department of Gender amp Women Studies at Illinois http www us oup com us catalog general subject LiteratureEnglish WorldLiterature Italy view usa amp ci 9780199535354 dead link a b Department of English dead link Oxford University Press Stadtlichter presse Infos www stadtlichter presse de www stadtlichter presse de Archived from the original on 2011 07 19 http outriderspoetryproject com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Max Wickert amp oldid 1197800195, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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