| Jack Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1936-02-25) February 25, 1936 (age 88) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, writer |
Jack Marshall (born 1936) is an American poet and author. He was born to an Iraqi father, and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.
Early life
Jack Marshall was born in February 25, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised speaking Arabic in a Mizrahi Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture. His father worked in the fabric industry. He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighborhood.
Marshall attended Brooklyn College, where he studied literature. The Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) is where he attended night classes in poetry in 1960 with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.
Career and accolades
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn.
He is the recipient of two Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Personal life
He has lived in El Cerrito, California since the early 2000s.
Works
- The Darkest Continent, For Now Press, (1967)
- Bearings, Harper & Row, (1970)
- Floats, Cedar Creek Press, (1971).
- Bits of Thirst, Blue Wind Press, (1976)
- Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise, Jazz Press, (1983)
- Arabian Nights, Coffee House Press, (1987)
- Sesame, Coffee House Press, (1993)
- Millennium Fever, Coffee House Press, (1996)
- Chaos Comics, Pennywhistle Press, (1994)
- Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, (2002)
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn Coffee House Press, (October 1, 2005) ISBN 978-1-56689-174-5
References
- ^ "Marshall, Jack 1936-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Coming attractions for fall 2006: Page 2
- Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall
- ^ Matza, Diane (1998). Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy. UPNE. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-87451-890-0.
- 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup, Kathleen Maclay, UCBerkleyNews
- What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall
- Radin, Rick (20 April 2016). "El Cerrito: City kicks off search for poet laureate". East Bay Times. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
- "Fiction Book Review: Sesame by Jack Marshall, Author". PublishersWeekly.com. 1993-01-04. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
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Categories:- Living people
- 1936 births
- American male poets
- American writers of Iraqi descent
- American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
- American people of Syrian-Jewish descent
- American writers of Syrian descent
- American people of Syrian descent
- American people of Iraqi descent
- Iraqi Jews
- Jewish American poets
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
- American poets
- American Arabic-language poets
- 21st-century American Jews