Gabriel Gudding

Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

Life

Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English Studies Department at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois where he was hired to teach experimental poetry writing and poetics. His work has been translated into French, Danish, Portuguese, Vietnamese and Spanish.

Gudding is the author of the books, ' (Ahsahta Press, 2015),
Rhode Island Notebook
' (Dalkey Archive, 2007), and
A Defense of Poetry
' (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.

He has given hundreds of poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America. He has published poems and essays in periodicals such as ''Harper’s Magazine'', ''The Nation'', and ''The Journal of the History of Ideas''. His poetry appears dozens of anthologies, including ''Best American Experimental Writing'' (Wesleyan, 2016), ''&Now: Best Innovative Writing'' (2010), ''Best American Poetry'' (Scribner, 2010) and ''Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present'' (Scribner).

His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as ''The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry'' (Oxford UP), ''Poems for the Millennium'' (University of California Press), and ''The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry'' (University of California Press)

Gudding has a daughter named Clio. Gudding practices vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin (as taught by S. N. Goenka).''Gabriel Gudding'', Here Comes Everybody, June 18, 2005.
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Books

A recipient of The Nation Discovery Award, Gudding received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Pitt Poetry Series for his first book ''A Defense of Poetry''.

Gudding's second book of poetry, ''Rhode Island Notebook'', was published in November 2007 by Dalkey Archive Press. ''Rhode Island Notebook'' is a 436-page poem interlarded with essays. It was written in Gudding's car on the highways between Normal, Illinois, and Providence, Rhode Island, during 26 roundtrip journeys, and has been called by the polymathic writer and artist Alan Sondheim, "the first 21st Century classic."

Ahsahta Press published Gudding's third book, ''Literature for Nonhumans'', in 2015.

Selected online publications

"Praise to the Swiss Federation"
''Harper's'', August 2008

"Ecopoetry, Speculative Ontology, and the Disavowal of the Slaughterhouse: Some Notes on Ethics and Capital"
''Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary'', May 2013


''Myopies'', #1, translated by Guillaume Fayard, January 2009


''Journal of the History of Ideas''. July 1996.


''Wild Honey Press'',


''Maximum Post-Avant''

"The Tuning Fork of St. Louis"
''St. Louis Magazine''


''Seven Corners'', 5 April 2006
* ttp://www.actionyes.org/issue6/gudding/gudding-road.html "And What, Friends, is Called a Road"''Action Yes.''

"Congratulations on Being Here"
''Eoagh''. Issue 5.


''Octopus Magazine'', Issue 9
*

''Jacket'' #7
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080821111257/http://www.aprweb.org/issues/mar01/gudding.html "How I Caught My Cold"''The American Poetry Review'' (APR), March/April 2001, Vol. 30, No. 2

"Praise to the Swiss Federation," and "To the Sun at Anchor"
''GutCult''

Online interviews

*"The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry" - George Bowering, Maxine Chernoff, Katie Degentesh, Gabriel Gudding, Rachel Loden, Ange Mlinko, K. Silem Mohammad, D. A. Powell, Ron Silliman, Gary Sulliva
''Jacket'' 33 (July 2007).
*"Prison Education
(radio interview with Danny Hajek on teaching in prisons).
*Interview on Creative Writing Pedagogy

*''Here Comes Everybody''
, Andy Zeigert, "Face to Face: Gabriel Gudding", ''The Ball State Daily News Online'', 7 February 2005.

Audio files

*Gabriel Gudding

*Series A Reading with Tony Barnstone and Tony Trigilio
March 25, 2008.

Selected online reviews

*Peter O'Leary. "On Gabriel Gudding's Rhode Island Notebook

*Jasper Bernes. "Revulsion as Revolt." Review of Lara Glenum and Gabriel Gudding's first books

*Levi Stahl. "The Five Minute Muse: George Oppen, Gabriel Gudding, and Campbell McGrath - The Off-The-Cuff Art of the Poet's Notebook.

*Dorothy Barresi. "Playing in the Dark: Black Humor in Poetry.

*Stephen Burt. "New Poets on the Block: Gabriel Gudding.

*Giles Goodland, "Short Reviews of Recent Titles: Gabriel Gudding, ''Rhode Island Notebook''"

*Ray McDaniel. "''A Defense of Poetry.'' Gabriel Gudding. U Pitt Press, 2002.
''The Constant Critic.''
*Fred Muratori. "Gabriel Gudding. ''Rhode Island Notebook''"
''Library Journal.''
*Rob Telfer, "Gabriel Gudding. ''Rhode Island Notebook''. Dalkey Archive, 2007"

*Josh Corey. "Gudding, Bolaño, and the Limits of Literature.

*Erin McNellis, "A Sea Sewn to a Spine: Gabriel Gudding's ''Rhode Island Notebook''"
''uncomplicatedly''.
*Ray Bianchi, "Why The ''Rhode Island Notebook'' by Gabriel Gudding Matters

External links

Dalkey Archive PressUniversity of Pittsburgh Pitt Poetry Seriesh o l z w e g e (Gabriel Gudding's blog)''Rhode Island Notebook'' Blog (a collection of reviews, interview, blurbs and excerpts).

References

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Cornell University alumni
American academics of English literature
Purdue University alumni
1966 births
Living people
American people of Norwegian descent
Illinois State University faculty
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners