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David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator. He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Photo by Mark Christal.
David Wevill. Canadian poet and translator, Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962). In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill's published works include, but not limited to: Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Penguin, 1963); Birth ...
A biography and poems by David Wevill, a Canadian-born poet who lived in Japan, England, Burma, and Texas. His poetry explores personal and cultural myths, legends, and landscapes.
The poet Nathaniel Tarn, a friend of Wevill, said she was unsettled by its characterization of her as an “icy, barren woman” and of David as “contemptible.” “Sylvia had a million times the talent, 1000 times the will, 100 times the Greed and passion that I have,” Wevill wrote just months after Plath’s death.
His main publications are: Birth of a Shark (1964), A Christ of the Ice-floes (1966), Firebreak (1971), Where. David Wevill was born a Canadian in Japan in 1935, and was educated in both Canada and England. He has lived in Burma and in Spain but has made his home in Austin, Texas for the past thirty years.
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22. Sept. 2022 · Review - The Collected Works of David Wevill. Andrew Duncan. Meditation on a Pine-Cone : David Wevill, Works (Shearsman, 2022. In 5 volumes: as Collected Earlier Poems; Collected Later Poems; CasualTies; Translations; Translations from Ferenc Juhasz) First, an inventory. The set consists of five parts including two of translations ...
Summary This collection showcases the creative range and essential writing of David Wevill, an elusive and enigmatic poetic figure. His work shines among a generation of postwar poets known for their literary invention, dissemination of poetry in translation, political witness, and obsession with the image. Wevill is a careful observer of the ...
