JEWISH
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OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY
(20% of
recipients)
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- Marya Zaturenska 1(1938),
Cold Morning Sky
- Karl Shapiro (1945), V-Letter and Other Poems
- Stanley Kunitz (1959), Selected Poems, 1928-1958
- Louis Simpson 2(1964), At the End of the Open Road
- Anthony Hecht (1968), The Hard Hours
- George Oppen (1969), Of Being Numerous
- Richard Howard (1970), Untitled Subjects
- Maxine Kumin (1973), Up Country
- Howard Nemerov (1978), Collected
Poems
- Louise Glück (1993), The Wild Iris
- Philip Levine (1995), The Simple Truth
- Jorie Graham (1996), The Dream of the Unified Field
- Lisel Mueller 3 (1997), Alive Together: New and Selected
Poems
- Mark Strand (1999), Blizzard of One
- C. K. Williams (2000), Repair
- Carl Dennis (2002), Practical Gods
- Philip Schultz (2008), Failure
NOTES
1. Not widely
known to have been Jewish, but according to her son Patrick Gregory's
introduction to The Diaries of Marya
Zaturenska, edited by Mary Beth Hinton (Syracuse University
Press, Syracuse, NY, 2002, p. xvii), "her parents were Jewish."
See also The Tenement Saga: The
Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers, by Sanford
Sternlicht (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2004, p. 122).
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish
father; see The King My Father's
Wreck: A Memoir,
by Louis Simpson (Story Line Press, 1995, p. 46). Works by Louis
Simpson, Anthony Hecht, Richard Howard, Philip Levine, Jorie Graham,
and C. K Williams were among those included in a special edition of the
Princeton University Library Chronicle
(Vol. LXIII, 1-2, Autumn 2001 - Winter 2002) that was devoted to the
work of American Jewish writers.
3. Jewish
father (Prof. Fritz Neumann).
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