Peter Wild

Peter Wild
Born	Peter T. Wild April 25, 1940 Northampton, Massachusetts
Died	February 23, 2009 (aged 68) 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

• Poetry
  • The Afternoon in Dismay. Cincinnati, OH: Art Association of Cincinnati. 1968. p. 87. OCLC 678909.
  • Cochise. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1973. p. 107. ISBN 978-0385057929. OCLC 707537.
  • New and Selected Poems. (with Matthews, William (introduction); Eddy, Deborah (illustrations)). New York, NY: New Rivers Press (distributor: Serendipity Books). 1973. p. 175. ISBN 978-0912284408. OCLC 749520 and 806553940 (print and on-line)
  • The Cloning. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1974. p. 103. ISBN 978-0385075916. OCLC 934541, 581527653 and 297449896 (print and on-line)^[9]
  • New Poetry of the American West. Durango, CO: Logbridge-Rhodes. 1982. p. 104. ISBN 978-0937406199. OCLC 8589531, 655452420 and 610178960 (Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line)^[10]
• University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City, Utah (as editor)
  • The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. 1991. p. 263. ISBN 978-0874803662. OCLC 22491262.^[11][12]
    • Republished as: The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. 2006. p. 324. ISBN 978-0874808711. OCLC 266084402.^[13]
  • The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931. 1993. p. 324. ISBN 0-87480-392-6. OCLC 28025404.^[14]
  • Into the Wilderness Dream: Explorations Narratives of the American West, 1500–1805. with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.). 1994. p. 416. ISBN 0-87480-443-4. OCLC 29221605.
  • A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805–1850. with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.). 1997. p. 348. ISBN 978-0874805390. OCLC 36726740 and 44964200 (print and on-line)
  • The Grumbling Gods: a Palm Springs Reader. 2007. p. 251. ISBN 978-0874808995. OCLC 122974473, 608203796 and 608020250 (print and on-line)^[15]
• Boise State University Western Writers Series (BSUWWS #) – Boise, Idaho
  • Alberto Ríos (#131). 1998. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301301. OCLC 40252765 and 246369356
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (#101). 1991. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301004. OCLC 24515951 and 656314379 (print and on-line)
  • Ann Zwinger (#111). 1993. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301103. OCLC 28516925
  • Barry Lopez (#94). 1984. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884300380. OCLC 10984800
  • Clarence King (#48). 1981. pp. 46. ISBN 978-0884300724. OCLC 7628120
  • Desert Literature: The Early Period (#146). 2001. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301455. OCLC 46683491
  • Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle (#138). 1999. pp. 53. ISBN 978-0884301370. OCLC 42076940
  • Desert Literature: The Modern Period (#144). 2000. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884301431. OCLC 44641313
  • 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
  • J. Ross Browne (#157). 2003. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884301578. OCLC 50722235
  • James Welch (#57). 1983. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884300311. OCLC 10086364
  • 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
  • Desert Magazine: The Henderson Years. 2004. p. 112. OCLC 56193617.
  • J. Smeaton Chase. 2005. p. 211. OCLC 62232191.
  • Marshal South, of Yaquitepec. 2005. p. 157. OCLC 58796769.^[16]
  • News from Palm Springs: The Letters of Carl Eytel, Edmund C. Jaeger, J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Francis Saunders, and Others of the Creative Brotherhood and Its Background. Vol. I and II. 2007. OCLC 163456618.
  • Tipping the Dream: A Brief History of Palm Springs. 2007. p. 228. OCLC 152590848.
  • William Pester: The Hermit of Palm Springs. 2008. p. 161. OCLC 234084689.
• Other publishers:
  • Pioneer Conservations of Western America. Abbey, Edward (introduction). Missoula, MN: Mountain Press Pub. Co. 1979. p. 247. ISBN 978-0878421077. OCLC 4114529 and 752883606 (print and on-line)
  • The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke: Selected Letters. Western Literature Series. Teague, David W. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 1997. p. 165. ISBN 978-0874172942. OCLC 35928275 and 605037003 (print and on-line)^[17]
  • 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]
  • The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 1999. p. 219. ISBN 978-0292791299. OCLC 40762502 and 649978425 (print and on-line)
  • Different Travellers, Different Eyes: Artists' Narratives of the American West, 1820–1920. edited with Barclay, Donald A. and Maquire, James H. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University. 2001. p. 270. ISBN 978-0875652429. OCLC 46858598.
  • Paradise of Desire: Eleven Palm Springs Novels. Tucson, AZ: Estate of Peter Wild. 2011. p. 281. OCLC 748584112.
  • Heiress of Doom: Lois Kellogg of Palm Springs. Tucson, AZ: Estate of Peter Wild. 2011. p. 449. OCLC 748583736.

Notes

1. Butscher, Edward (1992). Peter Wild. Boise, ID: Boise State University (Western Writers Series #106). p. 53. ISBN 978-0884301059. OCLC 26252302.
2. "Peter T. Wild, professor, poet". The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 11, 2009
3. 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)
4. Wakoski, Diane (January 1, 2001). "Wild, Peter." Contemporary Poets. Gale. Retrieved January 07, 2013 from HighBeam Research
5. "In Memoriam: Peter Wild 1940–2009". University of Arizona Poetry Center. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
6. 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
7. "Cochise by Peter Wild". Kirkus Reviews.
8. University of Nevada Press: About Peter Wild
9. Reviewed at: "The Cloning by Peter Wild". Kirkus Reviews.
10. Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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.
17. 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
18. 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