Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin (born 1959 ) is an American poet, and magazine editor.

Life

She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.

She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.^[1] She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997.^[2]

She teaches at Yale University.^[3] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,^[4] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker.^[5]

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry
• artist in residence at St. John the Divine.
• 2002, she received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
• 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry

• "Of Lincoln". Poetry Foundation.
• "The Astronomical Hen". Poetry Foundation.
• "Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day". poets.org.
• New Age and Other Poems. Columbia University. 1984.
• The Swordfish Tooth. A.A. Knopf. 1989. ISBN 978-0-394-57320-5.
• Fire Lyric. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-42003-3.
• The Watercourse. Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-41366-7.

Criticism

• "Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson.". The New Yorker. November 13, 2006.

Children

• Rose and Sebastian. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-75920-2.
• What Do You See when You Shut Your Eyes?. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-395-76507-4.
• Wallace Hoskins, the Boy who Grew Down: The Boy Who Grew Down. Illustrator Martin Matje. DK Ink. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7894-2523-2.
• Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis. Illustrator Pierre Pratt. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. January 1, 2004. ISBN 978-0-689-84762-2.
• Saints Among the Animals. Illustrator Leonid Gore. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. 2006. ISBN 978-0-689-85031-8.

Anthologies

• Holly Hughes, ed. (2005). "The Big Cheese". Best Food Writing 2005. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-1-56924-345-9.
• Robert Atwan, Louis Menand, ed. (2004). "An Enlarged Heart". The Best American Essays 2004. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-35706-2.

Reviews

Cynthia Zarin's second collection, Fire Lyric, has no image so arresting it sears its way into the brain, no one poem so visually striking that it stands in stark, memorable relief once the book has been closed. And that seems curious for a poet to whom seeing matters so very much; indeed, one of the collection's finest poems, "The Venetian Optician," presents a metaphysics of vision that informs nearly every poem in Fire Lyric.^[6]

References

1. "Cynthia Zarin, Writer, Weds a Painter on L.I.". The New York Times. January 25, 1988.
2. "WEDDINGS; Cynthia Zarin and Joseph Goddu". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
3. http://www.yale.edu/english/profiles/zarin.html
4. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/search/query?query=zarin&queryType=nonparsed&sort=score%20desc
5. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/cynthia_zarin/search?contributorName=cynthia%20zarin
6. Robert Hosmer (Summer 1994). New and Selected Poems. The Southern Review.

External links

• "conversation with Cynthia Zarin", Boldtype
• " Cynthia Zarin", February 12, 2009, Poetry Series, News Hour, PBS