Donald Kenneth Gutierrez (March 10, 1932 – October 29, 2013) was an American writer and professor

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Biography

The eldest son of Latin-American immigrants, he was born in Oakland, California, in 1932. He taught at the University of Notre Dame and the

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in Silver City, New Mexico. He studied English literature at University of California, Berkeley in the early 1950s. Gutierrez left Berkeley in 1958 to pursue a career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library in New York, and wound up at book publisher

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. He returned to California to receive a PhD from UCLA in 1964 and later joined the Notre Dame English department. Gutierrez returned to Notre Dame on a research scholarship, shortly before finishing a book on

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that renowned former Notre Dame president and head, Reverend ("Father")

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, placed in Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library (Special Collection).

Career

Gutierrez was a scholar of

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, and wrote about the last period (late 1920s) of Lawrence, whom Gutierrez describes as having dealt with death and symbolic renewal in an " ontological" manner, a lens through which Lawrence offered keen insights into humankind and society. An erstwhile Berkeley student who observed the "

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" world in the 1950s, Gutierrez has also written memoirs and commentaries on the " Beat" scenes of

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and San Francisco. Gutierrez also produced many works on

and other writers of that time. Gutierrez' post-2000 work and writings moved away from an academic focus of literature and fine arts, and he latterly wrote articles and essays more as a social and political commentator, with topics of: social justice, human rights abuses, economic inequities, and the major role he feels U.S. domestic and foreign policy plays in these. He was an outspoken critic of

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, international war criminals (Chile's Augusto Pinochet, Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt, Nicaragua's Somoza, Panama's Manuel Noriega, etc.), the United States' " School of the Americas" (the Department of Defense's Spanish-speaking training facility), the U.S. military engagements in Iraq,

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, Vietnam, the current torture and imprisonment practices the U.S. is claimed to participate in (including "extraordinary rendition" and "dark cells") and the policies of the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon,

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, Bill Clinton, and

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. Gutierrez wrote six books, more than 100 essays, papers and book reviews. He contributed numerous essays to journals, newspapers, universities, and online publishers, including the El Dorado Sun, the North Dakota Quarterly, Progressive San Francisco Latino newspaper, El Tecolote, the D. H. Lawrence Review,Contents, D. H. Lawrence in the Southwest, Volume 25, nos. 1-3, 1993 and 1994
the Malahat Review, the University of California's "California Alumni Association", Mosaic, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Texas Quarterly, Twentieth Century Literature, and Studies in Short Fiction.

Works

Books by Gutierrez

* ''Feeling the Unthinkable: Essays on Social Justice''; 2012; Amador Publishers, LLC * ''"The Holiness of the Real": The Short Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth''; 1st Edition 1966; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (out of print). 2nd Edition 2014; Amador Publishers, LLC * ''Lapsing Out: Embodiments of Death and Rebirth in the Last Writings of D. H. Lawrence''; 1980; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press * ''The Maze in the Mind and the World: Labyrinths in Modern Literature''; 1985; Whitston Publishing Co. * ''The Dark and Light Gods: Essays on the Self in Modern Literature''; 1987; Whitston Publishing Co. * ''Subject-object relations in Wordsworth and Lawrence (Studies in modern literature)''; 1987; UMI Research Press * ''Breaking Through to the Other Side: Essays on Realization in Modern Literature''; 1994; Whitston Publishing Co. * ''Feeling the Unthinkable: Essays on Social Justice''; 2012; Amador Publishers, LLC

Essays and articles by Gutierrez

* ''Maker, Worker, Profit-Maker'

1977; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper) * ''T. V. Sports Commentary and the Corruption of Language'

1978; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper) * ''The Rites of Passage and Adolescence in Modern Society'

1978; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records; (Scholar's paper) * ''Girlie Magazines'

1979; WNMU Dept. of Language and Literature; New Mexico Endowment for Humanities Records (Scholar's paper) * ''The Hylozoistic Vision of Lady Chatterley's Lover''; 1981 * ''Maker versus profit-maker: B. Traven’s "Assembly line'

1980 * ''The ideas of place : D. H. Lawrence’s travel books'

1981 * ''Poetry can make even tough concepts endurable and enduring '

1982 * ''Quick, now, here, now, always : the flaming rose of Lawrence and Eliot'

1982 * '' Toughness is an overrated term being used among Americans'

1984 * ''Incarceration and torture : the self in extremity'

1985; Human Rights Quarterly; Johns Hopkins University * ''A Life of Kenneth Rexroth - R Book Reviews'

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_n1_v37/ai_14766065] 1993; The Literary Review Magazine * ''American Presidents and Business Versus Community'

1996; "Common Sense;" Univ. of Notre Dame * ''On Rexroth's Poetry'

1999; "Modern American Poetry;" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * ''Bohemian Berkeley'

; 2002; UC "California Alumni Association" * ''“Where Is the Humanity?” America's Use of Excessive Force Over There''; 2002 * ''Systemic Greed: Kozlowski and Beyond'

2003; El Tecolote * ''Patriotism and Country Versus State'

2003; El Tecolote * ''The Preposterously Expensive Military of America'

2004; El Tecolote * ''Making Politicians Accountable'

2004; El Dorado Sun Guest Editorial * ''Leveling the Hierarchy'

2005; El Dorado Sun Guest Editorial * ''On State Political Torture'

2005; Tikkun * ''The Extraordinary Cruelty of "Extraordinary Rendition'

(PDF); 2006; Amer. Humanist Society

2005; El Dorado Sun * Poetry Review: ''Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow''; Robert Duncan

Modern American Poetry (Co-authors: Carey Nelson, Norman M. Finklestein, Christopher Beach) * Doctoral dissertation: study of '' A Dance to the Music of Time''; Anthony Powell

Book reviews by Gutierrez

Dates are review dates

* ''Rogue State'' by William Blum; 2001; Review

* ''The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex'' by Dr. Helen Caldicott; 2002 * ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'' by Chris Hedges; 2003; Review

* ''The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth'' by Dianna Ortiz; 2003; Z-Magazine; Review

* ''State Terrorism and the United States'' by Frederick H. Gareau; 2004

Papers by Gutierrez in Spanish

* ''El costo del ejército militar estadounidense'

2004; El Tecolote * ''Avaricia en el Sistema: Kozlowski y el futuro'

2003; El Tecolote * ''Patriotismo y nación versus estado'

2003; El Tecolote

Lectures, readings by Gutierrez

* Harwood Museum of Art ''Poetry and Passion, Three Major Early Modern British Poets

( Taos, New Mexico) 10 Nov. 2005 * National Poetry Month Events (Cannon, New Mexico

* New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; University of New Mexico; Speakers/Programs; 1986; 1988; 1991-199

Honors, awards

* Western New Mexico University Department of Humanities Professor Emeritu

References

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