Jonathan Aaron is an American poet, the author of the poetry collection ''Journey to the Lost City.''
Life
He graduated from the
University of Chicago and
Yale University Ph.D.
His work has been published in ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The New Yorker'', ''
The New York Review of Books
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'', ''The London Review of books'', ''The Boston Globe (as guest reviewer), and ''The Times Literary Supplement''.
Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He currently lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...
. Since 1988, Mr. Aaron has been an Associate Professor at
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as ...
in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. In Fall of 2007, Mr. Aaron was visiting poet-in-residence at
Williams College.
Awards
He received the 1975-1976
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work.
When poet Amy Lowell died in 1925, her will established ...
.
His work has received many honors, including Fellowships from
Yaddo,
MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Endowment for the Arts.
His poems have appeared in ''Best American Poetry'' five times.
Works
"The End of Out of the Past", ''pō’ĭ-trē''*
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Poetry books
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Translation
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Anthology
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Reviews
“Dreaming is after all a kind of thinking,” Jonathan Aaron writes in this new volume, his third in almost 25 years, and it’s hard to imagine a more succinct statement of his poetic method. Aaron has always used the peculiar instability of poems to his advantage: he builds tension from a poem’s ability to slip on no more than a phrase from the real to the symbolic, from the hypothetical to the unalterable.
References
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Living people
University of Chicago alumni
Emerson College faculty
Poets from Massachusetts
1941 births
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni