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Hayden Carruth
(Poet, Writer)
[August 3, 1921 - September 23, 2008]
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Profile created January 28, 2010
Note:
Hayden Carruth was the husband of poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth.
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Letters to Jane (2004)
Jane Kenyon, who was married to the poet Donald
Hall, earned wide acclaim for her clear, vivid, deeply spiritual lyrics,
many of them written in the face of her own -mortality.
During the year of her dying, Carruth’s faithful correspondence, collected
here, is a testament to the depth of their friendship, and a rare window
into the inner life of a major poet as he confronts the loss of a dear
friend. Both Carruth and Kenyon have devoted followings; Letters to
Jane offers unique and personal new insight into their poetry.
Of this book, Francine Prose has written, “Reading these beautiful,
eloquent, moving letters from one poet to another, you keep forgetting (as
you are meant to) even as, paradoxically, it never leaves your mind for a
moment, that this is no casual correspondence. Its occasion is urgent and
extraordinary. The recipient is dying.
“. . . Carruth writes again and again—honest, direct, affectionate
accounts of everyday events: writing and reading, visiting friends,
traveling to give poetry readings, enjoying good moods and good health,
enduring physical and emotional setbacks, feeding the dog and watching bee
balm bloom in the garden.
What’s most mysterious and marvelous about these letters—which end around
the time of Kenyon’s death in 1995—is how they manage to be,
simultaneously, so relaxed and so intense, so concrete and so reflective,
and how every word and every sentence reminds us of the preciousness of
ordinary life, and of the enduring and -sustaining consolations of
friendship.” -
Beside the Shadblow Tree: A Memoir of James Laughlin
(1999)
Memoir. It is impossible to imagine what American
poetry in the twentieth century might look like without the magnanimity of
the late James Laughlin, poet and publisher of New Directions. Among
Laughlin's closest friends was poet Hayden Carruth, who served as author,
editor, clerk, and typist for New Directions and, at a more personal
level, "poetry doctor" for Laughlin himself. Beside the Shadblow Tree
is the meditation of one great old poet upon the death of another, upon
two lives intertwined in various ways for half a century.
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Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems
(2006)
This “portable Carruth” gathers new poems with the
essential works from a major American poet. Included are lyrics, short
narratives, comic, meditative, and erotic poems that engage politics,
music, rural poverty, and the cultural responsibility of artists.
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Collected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991
(2001)
Collected Shorter Poems presents hundreds of
lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poems that
Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period. This is a reissue of
the book, with new cover design. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic
and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth gives his
poems a philosophical resonance. His explorations of rural poverty and
hardship— sometimes grim, sometimes funny—are deeply informed by political
radicalism and cultural responsibility.
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Doctor Jazz: Poems
(2001)
Hayden Carruth, one of the most acclaimed poets of
our age, lives his music -- finding the perfect low tones of terrible loss
and high riffs of family and friendship.
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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995
(1996) -- Winner National Book Award for Poetry
Powerful new poems by one of North
America's premier poets.
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Suicides and Jazzers
(1992)
Musings and revelations about poetry, jazz, and the
rocky course of one poet's life.
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Collected Longer Poems
(1991)
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
(1991)
-- Winner National Book Critics' Circle Award
Collected Shorter Poems
presents hundreds of lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature,
and erotic poems that Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period.
This is a reissue of the book, with new cover design. Noted for the
breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the
blues, Carruth gives his poems a philosophical resonance. His explorations
of rural poverty and hardship— sometimes grim, sometimes funny—are deeply
informed by political radicalism and cultural responsibility.
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The Sleeping Beauty
(1990)
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Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands
(1989)
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From Snow and Rock, from Chaos: Poems 1965-1972
(1973)
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For You
(1970)
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The Norfolk Poems of Hayden Carruth: 1 June to 1 September 1961
(1962)
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The Crow and the Heart
(1959)
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