Ellen Hinsey
Author of Cities of Memory (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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Ellen Hinsey teaches writing and literature at Skidmore College's program in Paris and the French graduate school, the Ecole Polytechnique. Her first book, Cities of Memory, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 1996. Among other honors, she has received the Union League Civic and Arts show more Poetry Prize from Poetry, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from The American Academy in Berlin. Her poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker and Poetry show less
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The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations (2007) — Translator, some editions — 165 copies
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributor — 12 copies
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Cities of memory by Ellen Hinsey
These poems didn't work for me. They are descriptive lyrics with obscure metaphors that didn't call up anything from me. The introduction says that Hinsey has a distinct sense of place, which I would agree with. So if you like poems that are very evocative of place but don't necessarily say anything coherent about the place, you might want to give these a try. Hinsey has a degree in fine art so many of her poems are related to art work as well.
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