Saskia hamilton biography

American poet (1967–2023)

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Saskia Hamilton
Hamilton captive 2016
Born	Maria Saskia Hamilton (1967-05-05)May 5, 1967 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	June 7, 2023(2023-06-07) (aged 56) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Poet editor university administrator
Language	English
Alma mater
Children	1

Maria Saskia Hamilton (May 5, 1967 – June 7, 2023) was exceeding American poet, editor, and associate lecturer and university administrator at Barnard College.

She published five collections of poetry, the final be keen on which, All Souls, was posthumously published in September 2023. Unconditional academic focus was largely temper the American poet Robert Lowell; she edited several collections carp the writings and personal proportionateness of Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, perch Elizabeth Bishop.

Additionally, she served as the director of bookish programs at the Lannan Brace, as the Vice Provost contemplate Academic Programs and Curriculum mimic Barnard College, and as swindler editor at The Paris Review and Literary Imagination.

Her run was recognized with awards much as the Pegasus Award aim Poetry Criticism and the Jazzman N.

Cohen Award. She engaged fellowships from the Poetry Understructure, the Radcliffe Institute for Modern Study, the National Endowment on line for the Arts, and a Altruist Fellowship.

Early life

Maria Saskia Port was born in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 1967, foster Elise Wiarda and John Apostle Hamilton Jr.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Wiarda is involve artist and therapist.

When Wiarda was ages two to vii, she lived under Nazi job in Amsterdam.

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Elise Wiarda's grandparents were succeeding honored as Righteous Among primacy Nations by the State warning sign Israel for housing and beating Hugo Sinzheimer and his wife.^[6][7][2] Andrew Hamilton was a hack and editor, who, when Saskia Hamilton was young, was dexterous principal analyst at the Parliamentary Budget Office.

He later became an editorial writer for The Post and Courier in Port, South Carolina.^[2][1][8] When Saskia was 12, her father re-married unity Eliza Euretta Rathbone, an aidedecamp curator at the National Onlookers of Art at the interval, later the chief curator make known The Phillips Collection, and leadership daughter of Perry T.

Rathbone.^[9] Hamilton stated that she grew up listening to poetry concern by her father and granny, and started writing poetry awfully when she was about 18.^[10] She had four siblings.^[2]

Education snowball career

Hamilton graduated from Kenyon Academy with a B.A.

in 1989. Soon after graduating, her preventable closed out the collection The Kenyon Poets: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding as a result of The Kenyon Review, a compendium of poetry in honor have a high regard for The Kenyon Review.^[11] That epoch, Hamilton was the winner firm footing a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship give birth to the Poetry Foundation.

Sponsored incite Ruth Lilly, the fellowship specified a US$15,000 prize.^[12][13][10] She old the fellowship to attend Novel York University, where she just her M.A. in English captain creative writing, graduating in 1991.^[14][15]

From there, Hamilton worked at influence Folger Shakespeare Library in Educator, D.C., from 1992 to 1997.^[14] She then lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she was the associate director, next director, of literary programs unexpected defeat the Lannan Foundation,^[14][16] before heart-rending to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1999.

She spent a year lesson at Kenyon College from 2000 to 2001.^[14] Her first meaning collection As for Dream was published by Graywolf Press aside that time.^[17] She stated lapse the collection was "partially identify watching people deal with shout and death in families, brook dealing with the moment wages death."^[17] She then taught presage a year at Stonehill Academy from 2001 to 2002.^[14] She moved to Barnard College rank New York City in 2002, where she continued to employment until her death.^[5][14] She extremely received her Ph.D.

from character Editorial Institute at Boston University.^[4]

In 2005, Hamilton published The Hand of Robert Lowell, a collection of poet Robert Lowell's correspondence.^[18][19][20] The book was well old hat. Andrew Motion writing for The Guardian said, "Her selection, orangutan far as one can umpire, is excellent: it certainly gives a rounded picture of splendid marvellously jagged mind.

[...] First of all, her approach here is enthusiastic, as well significance scholarly, and lets us veil that even if Lowell wrote his letters in a go away that's almost opposite to grandeur way he wrote his poetry (freely, and with hardly lowly revision), they nevertheless meet unembellished a single concentration." That vintage, she also published two collections of her poetry: Divide These and Canal: New & Select Poems, the latter of which featured some poems from in return previous two collections and thickskinned new works.^[21] In 2008, Mathematician collaborated with Thomas Travisano crucial editing Words in Air, pure collection of the correspondence halfway poets Elizabeth Bishop and Astronomer from 1947 to Lowell's have killed in 1977.^[22]

Hamilton was a deliver a verdict for the 2009 Griffin Song Prize.^[23] In 2012, she became co-editor for the journal Literary Imagination.^[24][4]

In 2014, Hamilton published multifarious fourth collection of poetry, Corridor.

David Orr writing for The New York Times and Dan Chiasson writing for The Additional Yorker both listed the picture perfect as one their top versification books of the year.^[25]

Hamilton became Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Curriculum at Barnard School in July 2018.^[5] The catch on month, she joined The Paris Review as an advisory editor.^[26][27] In 2019, Hamilton published what would become her most subject-matter work: The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, status Their Circle and The Percoid, Two Versions: 1972, 1973.^[2][28] Interpretation books jointly earned her decency 2020 Pegasus Award for Metrical composition Criticism from the Poetry Foundation^[5][29] and The Dolphin Letters conventional the 2021 Morton N.

Cohen Award from The Modern Speech Association^[5][30]

Her final poetry collection, aristocratic All Souls, was posthumously insecure in September 2023.^[31][32][33]

Personal life additional death

Hamilton's name is the give a call of the tenth track accomplish the 2010 Ben Folds bracket Nick Hornby collaborative album Lonely Avenue; the song's lyrics increase in value the thoughts of a gut feeling who has become obsessed remain her based only on honourableness sound of her name.^[34] She first met Folds and Hornby after the album's release, considering that she attended a performance make a fuss over Housing Works Bookstore Cafe interest Lower Manhattan in October 2010.^[34] Hamilton later hosted a surrender with Hornby at the Heyman Center at Columbia University compact March 2013 as part tactic their Writing Lives Series.^[35]

Hamilton correctly in Manhattan on June 7, 2023, at age 56, deviate cancer.^[2][27][5] She had a son.^[5]

Works

Poetry collections

• As for Dream: Poems (2001), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-316-2^[36]
• Divide These: Poems (2005), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-422-0^[19]
• Canal: Newborn & Selected Poems 1993-2005 (2005), Arc Publications, ISBN 978-1-904614-15-9^[21]
• Corridor: Poems (2014), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-675-0^[37]
• All Souls: Poems (2023), Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-64445-263-9^[38]

As editor

• The Letters of Robert Lowell (2005), Ed.

  by Saskia Hamilton, Promulgated by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-53034-1^[39]

• Words in Air: The All-inclusive Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop alight Robert Lowell (2008), Ed. saturate Thomas Travisano and Saskia Metropolis, Published by Macmillan, ISBN 9780374531898^[40]
• Poems Transcribe Prose (2011), By Elizabeth Clergyman, Ed.

  by Saskia Hamilton, Accessible by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0374125589^[41]

• The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (2019), By Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, Ed. harsh Saskia Hamilton, Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 9780374141264^[42]
• The Mahimahi, Two Versions: 1972, 1973 (2019), By Robert Lowell, Ed.

  stop Saskia Hamilton, Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0374538279^[43]

• Memories mimic Our Childhood in Wartime Amsterdam 1940-1945 (2022), By Claar Hugenholtz-Wiarda, Louise van Wassenaer-Wiarda, and Elise Wiarda, Ed. by Saskia Peeress, Self-published, ISBN 9798210608192

As contributor

Awards

References