Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and academic. She is a professor of English at

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

, and Plutzik Memorial Series director. Her work has appeared in ''Paris Review'', ''Sulfur'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Harvard Review''.

Awards

* 1989

Barnard Women Poets Prize The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published und ...

Works

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Essays

Reviews

Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method:
"Consciousness as landscape, /
Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns of memory,' /
he wrote, /
`the mountains and hills of my high imagination.'"
The consciousness that permeates Jordan's landscapes, however, is of a decidedly more modern, Poundian variety.

References

External links

"What Poems", ''The Writer's Almanac''
1949 births Living people University of Rochester faculty American women poets American women academics 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1940s-stub