Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea. Courtesy Four Way Books.

Sydney Lea (born 1942) is an American poet and novelist. He has served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont..

Life

Lea has taught for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, as well as at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Vermont College, Middlebury College, Franklin CollegeTemplate:Disambiguation needed, and the National Hungarian University.

He founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it till 1989. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including the New Yorker , The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Newbury, Vermont.

Recognition

• 2011 appointed Poet Laureate of Vermont
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Pursuit of a Wound
• 1998 Poets' Prize, for To the Bone: New and selected poems
• 1992 Fulbright Scholarship
• 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1985 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Publications

Poetry

• Searching the Drowned Man: Poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1980.
• The Floating Candles: Poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-252-00976-1
• No Sign: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
• Prayer for the Little City: Poems. New York: Scribner, 1990. ISBN 978-0-684-19129-4
• The Blainville Testament. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-934257-80-0
• To the Bone: New and selected poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-252-06519-4
• Pursuit of a Wound: Poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 978-0-252-06817-1
• Ghost Pain: Poems. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2005. ISBN 978-1-932511-14-7
• Young of the Year. New York: Four Way Books, 2011.
• Mahayana in Vermont: Poems. Milford, VA: Sow's Ear Poetry Review, 2012.
• Six Sundays Toward a Seventh. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012.
• I Was Thinking of Beauty. New York: Four Way Books, 2013.

Novel

• A Place in Mind. New York: Scribner, 1989. ISBN 978-1-885266-39-2

Non-fiction

• Gothic to Fantastic: Readings in supernatural fiction. New York: Arno Press, 1973, 1980. ISBN 978-0-405-12653-6
• Hunting the Whole Way Home (essays). Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
• A Little Wildness: Some notes on rambling. Ashland, OR: Story LIne Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-58654-046-3
• A Hundred Himalyas: Essays on life and literature. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012.
• A North Country Life: Tales of woodsmen, waters, and wildlife. New York: Skyhorse Publications, 2013.

Edited

• Richard Eberhart: A celebration (edited with Jay Parini & M. Robin Brown). Hanover, NH: New England Review / Kenyon Hill Publications, 1980.
• The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American poetry (edited with Robert Pack & Jay Parini). Hanover, NH: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference / University Press of New England, 1985. ISBN 978-0-87451-350-9
• The Burdens of Formality: The poetry of Anthony Hecht. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
• The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place, Volume 2. Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9678856-8-1

Poet Sydney Lea reads his poem "How About Some Quiet In This Place" in 2005

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "Children, Singing", The Atlantic, December 2003
• Two poems in the Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1995): "Mudtime In the County", "Canary Weather"
• Sydney Lea b. 1942 at the Poetry Foundation

Prose

• Essay: "The Death Of A Hunting Dog", Sports Illustrated, December 02, 1991

Books

• Sydney Lea at Amazon.com

About

• The Books and the Poetry of Sydney Lea - Official website
• Sydney Lea's Blog
• "Interview With Poet Sydney Lea", Writer's Digest, August 11, 2009