Peter Wild
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| Peter Wild | |
|---|---|
| Born | Peter T. Wild April 25, 1940 Northampton, Massachusetts |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Tucson, Arizona |
| Occupation | Professor of English, poet, writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | B.A. (1962), M.A. (1967), M.F.A. (1969) |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.) |
| Period | 1969–2009 |
| Genre | poetry, American history |
| Subject | American Southwest |
| Notable works | Cochise (1973) |
| Notable awards | Writer's Digest prize, 1964 Ark River Review prize, 1972 nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973 |
| Spouse | Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?) |
Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.[1]:5 Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.[2] Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.[3][4] He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.[5][6] His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise,[7] was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[8]
Bibliography
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- University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City, Utah (as editor)
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- Enos Mills (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. ISBN 978-0884300601. OCLC 6006498
- George Wharton James (#93). 1990. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300922. OCLC 22357424 and 754890912
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- John C. Van Dyke: The Desert (#82). 1988. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300816. OCLC 18596618
- John Haines (#68). 1985. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884300427. OCLC 12672075
- John Nichols (#75). 1986. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300496. OCLC 14712741
- Theodore Strong Van Dyke (#121). 1995. pp. 54. ISBN 978-0884301202. OCLC 33054151
- The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California
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- Other publishers:
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- Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. ISBN 978-0801856259. OCLC 36178998, 605563047 and 658057160 (print and on-line)[18]
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Notes
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- ↑ "Peter T. Wild, professor, poet". The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 11, 2009
- ↑ Freed, Walter; Greiner, Donald J. (ed.) (1980). "Peter Wild". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 5, American Poets since World War II, First Series Part 2: L–Z. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. p. 390 ff. ISBN 978-0810309241. OCLC 59250237; also available from BookRags at Dictionary of Literary Biography on Peter Wild (subscription required)
- ↑ Wakoski, Diane (January 1, 2001). "Wild, Peter." Contemporary Poets. Gale. Retrieved January 07, 2013 from HighBeam Research
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- ↑ He became the leading authority on John Charles Van Dyke and the high desert. University of Arizona, University Libraries: Papers of Peter Wild Regarding Research on John C. Van Dyke
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- ↑ University of Nevada Press: About Peter Wild
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- ↑ Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.
- ↑ Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Clarence E. Dutton, John G. Bourke, John C. Van Dyke, D. H. Lawrence, J. Frank Dobie, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Peter Reyner Banham. Edited with Dean Saxton and Lucille Saxton
- ↑ Cofone, Albin J. (March 22, 1994). "The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". The American Indian Quarterly. University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved January 10, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- ↑ Reviewed in: "The New Desert Reader." (Brief article)(Book review). Internet Bookwatch. Midwest Book Review. 2006. and "The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2006. Both retrieved February 03, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- ↑ Reviewed by: Ingham, Zita (March 22, 1995). "The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931". Nineteenth-Century Prose. Retrieved January 08, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- ↑ Reviewed in: "'The grumbling gods; a Palm Springs reader'". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2007. Retrieved February 05, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- ↑ A biography of South, who wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) in Desert Magazine about his primitive life on the desert.
- ↑ Reviewed in: "The Secret Life of John C Van Dyke: Selected Letters." Virginia Quarterly Review January 1, 1998. Retrieved February 03, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- ↑ Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. OCLC 4894630759 and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave". The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. Both retrieved February 03, 2013 from HighBeam Research
- Peters, Robert (October–November 1974). "Mud Men Mud Women". Margins. Vol. 14. pp. 57 ff.
- Republished in Robert Peters (1979). The Great American Poetry Bake-off. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 274. ISBN 978-0810812314. OCLC 5101106 and 643676039 (print and on-line)
- Seavey, Ormond (Spring 1975). "Peter Wild: An Introduction". New York: Little Magazine. Vol. 9, pp. 4–10. (Available in the Little Magazine archive, 1965–1988, at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC): University of Texas at Austin, OCLC 78144730.)
External links
- University of Arizona Archives: Papers of Peter Wild 1919–2004 – an index of Wild's research regarding John C. Van Dyke, OCLC 57378322
- Peter Wild at Find a Grave
- Peter Wild at Goodreads
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- American male poets
- Historians of the American West
- Literary historians
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- United States Army officers
- University of Arizona faculty
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- Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts
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