měi guó
(
1914nián～
1997nián)
大卫·伊格内托，
shēng yú niǔ yuē shì， 1964
nián yǐ lái xiān hòu zài kěn tǎ jī dà xué、
kān sà sī dà xué、
wǎ sà '
ěr xué yuàn、
niǔ yuē shì lì dà xué、
niǔ yuē dà xué hé gē lún bǐ yà dà xué jiào shòu wén xué chuàng zuò， 1936-1976
nián jiān zhù biān guò yī xiē shī kān，
qí zhōng bāo kuò zhù míng de《
měi guó shī gē píng lùn》。
tā cóng 1948
nián yǐ lái chū bǎn liǎo shí duō juàn shī jí：《
shī》 (1948)、《
wēn hé de jǔ zhòng zhě》 (1955)、《
zài shuō yī cì》 (1962)、《
rén lèi de xíng xiàng》 (1964)、《
dà dì jiān yìng：
shī xuǎn》 (1968)、《
yíng jiù sǐ zhě》 (1968)、《
shī jí： 1934-1969》 (1970)、《
miàn duì shù mù》 (1975)、《
shī xuǎn》 (1975)、《
tà shàng hēi '
àn》 (1978)、《
duì dì dī yǔ》 (1981)、《
ràng mén chǎng kāi》 (1984)、《
xīn shī jí》 (1986)、《
gěi dì miàn tóu yǐng》 (1991)
děng duō juàn，
lìng wài hái zhù yòu sǎnwén sān juàn。
tā céng jīng duō cì huò dé guò yī xiē zhōng yào de shī gē jiǎng，
qí zhōng bāo kuò gǔ gēn hǎi mǔ、
bō lín gēn、
fó luò sī tè、
xuě lāi jì niàn jiǎng、
měi guó wén yì xué yuàn shī gē jiǎng，
tóng shí，
tā hái bèi tuī xuǎn wéi měi guó shī gē xié huì de zhōng shēn zhù xí。
yī gé nèi tuō bèi gōng rèn wéi dāng dài měi guó yù yán shì shī gē dà shī。
tā de shī duǎn xiǎo、
zhí jiē、
bì miǎn shǐ yòng xiū shì cí hé fù yú “ shī yì ” de cí yǔ，
jù yòu shí fēn xiān míng de“
fǎn shī gē”
tè zhēng。
tā de shī gē hái jiān jù xiàn dài yù yán xìng zhì，
qiě qīng xiàng yú qíng jié xìng，
bǎ rì cháng shēng huó shàng shēng dào zhé xué jìng jiè，
yǐ chāo xiàn shí zhù yì shǒu fǎ jiē shì chū xiàn dài rén de shēng cún huán jìng jí qí yā lì。
David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. He was the author of numerous books of poetry, including Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems (BOA Editions, 1999), At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (1998), I Have a Name (1996), Against the Evidence: _Select_ed Poems, 1934-1994 (1994), Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991), Shadowing the Ground (1991), New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 (1986), Leaving the Door Open (1984), Whisper the Earth (1981), Conversations (1980), Sunlight (1979), Tread the Dark (1978), _Select_ed Poems (1975), Facing the Tree (1975), Poems: 1934-1969 (1970), Rescue the Dead (1968), Earth Hard: _Select_ed Poems (1968), Figures of the Human (1964), Say Pardon (1962), The Gentle Weightlifter (1955), and Poems (1948).
During his literary career, Mr. Ignatow worked as an editor of American Poetry Review, Analytic, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Chelsea Magazine, and as poetry editor of The Nation. He taught at the New School for Social Research, the University of Kentucky, the University of Kansas, Vassar College, York College of the City University of New York, New York University, and Columbia University. He was president of the Poetry Society of America from 1980 to 1984 and poet-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in 1987.
Mr. Ignatow's many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort." He received the Shelley Memorial Award (1966), the Frost Medal (1992), and the William Carlos Williams Award (1997) of the Poetry Society of America. He died on November 17, 1997, at his home in East Hampton, New York.