James Scully

OCEANIA a sheaf of poems
2008
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DONATELLO'S VERSION
2007

LINE BREAK: poetry as social practice, 1988/2005

Santiago Poems, 1975

Raging Beauty, 1994

Apollo Helmet, 1983

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1975

Roque Dalton, Poetry & Militancy in Latin America, 1981

Quechua Peoples Poetry, 1976

Biblio / Bio


James Scully was born 23 February 1937 in New Haven, CT. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Arlene. They've been married since 1960 and have a son, John, and a daughter, Deirdre.

For detailed narrative, see: CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES (Gale Research, 1999) vol. 30, pp. 201-235.

Books (poetry): The Marches (1967); Communications (with Grandin Conover, 1970); Avenue of the Americas (1971); Santiago Poems (1975); Scrap Book (1977); May Day (1980); Apollo Helmet (1983); Raging Beauty: Selected Poems (1994); Words Without Music (2004); Boxcars (2006); Donatello's Version (2007)

Books (critical): Modern Poetics, a.k.a. Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (1965, 1966); Line Break: poetry as social practice (1988, 2005)

Co-translations: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (with C. John Herington, 1975, 1989); Quechua Peoples Poetry (with Maria A. Proser, 1977); Teresa de Jesus, De Repente / All Of A Sudden (with Maria A. Proser and Arlene Scully, 1979)

Founding editor of ART ON THE LINE series (1981-1986): Roque Dalton; Cesar Vallejo [2x]; Vladimir Mayakovsky; George Grosz, Weiland Herzfelde, John Heartfield.

Awards: National Defense Fellowship 1959-1962; Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (Rome, Italy 1962-63); Lamont Poetry Award 1967 (for The Marches); Jenny Taine Memorial Award 1971 (for translation); Guggenheim Fellowship (Santiago, Chile 1973-74); NEA Fellowship 1976-77; Islands & Continents Translation Award 1980; Bookbuilders of Boston Award 1983 (for book cover design); NEA Fellowship 1990

Selected Works

Essays
Line Break: poetry as social practice
"a major radical artist-intellectual at the peak of his power...a lucid, intransigent work."
--Fred Pfeil, Village Voice
Poetry
Donatello's Version
“James Scully’s fierce moral intelligence, poetic craft and grim humor are all alive and well in this long-awaited collection.”—Adrienne Rich
Santiago Poems
“A rich, vivid, and eloquent chronicle of life...relevant well into the future.” -- The Minnesota Review
Apollo Helmet
“These poems offer a fresh image or perspective to startle and illuminate.”
--Publishers Weekly
Raging Beauty
Selected Poems Unreviewed
Translation
Prometheus Bound
"No one who troubles to read Scully and Herington out loud can doubt it is a milestone in the translation of Prometheus Bound."
--Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English

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