Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.

Academic career

Born and raised in

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, Brooklyn,

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, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education. After an undergraduate education at the

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(B.A., 1950), Feldman completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953. His first academic appointments were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004.

Published works

* ''Works and Days'' (1961), Little, Brown Book Group. * ''The Pripet Marshes'' (1965), Viking. * ''Magic Papers'' and Other Poems (1970), Harper & Row. * ''Lost Originals'' (1972) Holf, Rinehart and Winston. * ''Leaping Clear'' and Other Poems (1976), Viking. * ''New and Selected Poems'' (1979), Viking. * ''Teach Me, Dear Sister'' (1983), Penguin Books. * ''All of Us Here'' and Other Poems (1986), Penguin Books. * ''The Life and Letters'' (1994), University of Chicago Press. * ''Beautiful False Things: Poems'' (2000),

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. * ''Collected Poems, 1954-2004'' (2004), Shocken. * ''Usable Truths: Aphorisms & Observations'' (2019), Waywiser Press.

Awards and honors

Irving Feldman has received a number of accolades for his poetry which include the

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, the National Institute of Arts & Letters award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts grant. In 1992 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for ''Works and Days and Other Poems''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Irving 1928 births Writers from Brooklyn City College of New York alumni Columbia University alumni American male poets Kenyon College faculty Living people American academics of English literature MacArthur Fellows American male non-fiction writers People from Coney Island American expatriates in France