Zbornik Mednarodnega literarnega srečanja Vilenica 2004 - Ljudmila

Sydney Lea je objavil sedem pesniških zbirk, z zadnjo med njimi Pursuit
of a Wound se je uvrstil med tri finaliste za Pulitzerjevo nagrado 2001. Za
zbirko To the Bone je 1998 prejel prestižno nagrado Poet’s Prize. Razen
tega je objavil tudi roman A Place in Mind (1988) ter zbirko esejev o naravi
Hunting the Whole Way Home (1994). Njegova druga tovrstna zbirka bo
izšla jeseni, osma pesniška zbirka Ghost Pain pa prihodnje leto. Kratke
zgodbe, eseje in kritike objavlja v časopisih in revijah The New Yorker,
The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated in
v mnogih drugih, njegovo delo se pojavlja v več kot štiridesetih različnih
antologijah. 1977 je ustanovil ugledno The New Enland Review in jo urejal
do leta 1989. Sydney Lea je bil štipendist Rockfellerjevega, Guggenhaimovega
in Fulbrightovega sklada, poučeval je na kolidžih in univerzah
Yale in Wesleyan, ter na kolidžih Dartmouth, Vermont in Middlebury v
ZDA ter na Franklin College v Švici in na Madžarski univerzi v Budimpešti.
Živi v Newburyju v Vermontu in je dejaven na področjih pismenosti in
varstva okolja.
Sydney Lea has published seven poetry collections, the most recent of
which, Pursuit of a Wound, was one of three finalists for the 2001 Pulitzer
Prize for poetry. The preceding volume, To the Bone: New and Selected
Poems, was co-winner of the 1998 Poets’ Prize. He also published the novel
A Place in Mind (1989) as well as a collection of naturalist essays, Hunting
the Whole Way Home (1994). Lea’s.second nonfiction volume, A Little
Wildness: Some Notes On Rambling, will be published this autumn and
his eighth collection of poems, Ghost Pain, will come out in 2005. His
stories, poems, essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker,
The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated
and many other periodicals, and in more than forty anthologies. He
founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it till 1989. Lea has received
fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations,
and has taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, Vermont and
Middlebury Colleges, as well as at Franklin College in Switzerland and
the National Hungarian University in Budapest. He lives in Newbury, Vermont,
where he is active in statewide literacy and conservation efforts.
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