John Ciardi
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John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean?, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind. At the peak of his popularity in the early 1960s, Ciardi also had a network television program on CBS, Accent. Ciardi's impact on poetry is perhaps best measured through the younger poets whom he influenced as a teacher and as editor of the Saturday Review.
Bibliography
- Homeward to America, 1940. Poems.
- Other Skies, 1947. Poems.
- Live Another Day, 1949. Poems.
- Mid-Century American Poems, 1950. Anthology edited by Ciardi.
- From Time to Time, 1951. Poems.
- "The Hypnoglyph", 1953. Short story in Fantasy & Science Fiction, using the pseudonym "John Anthony."
- The Inferno. 1954. Translation.
- As If: Poems New and Selected, 1955.
- I Marry You, 1958. Poems.
- 39 Poems, 1959.
- The Reason for the Pelican, 1959. Children's poems.
- How Does a Poem Mean? 1959. Poetry textbook.
- Scrappy the Pup, 1960. Children's poems.
- In the Stoneworks, 1961. Poems.
- The Purgatorio, 1961. Translation.
- I Met a Man, 1961. Children's poems.
- The Man Who Sang the Sillies, 1961. Children's poems.
- In Fact, 1962. Poems.
- The Wish-Tree, 1962. Children's story.
- You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, 1962. Children's poems.
- Dialogue with an Audience, 1963. Saturday Review controversies and other selected essays.
- John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan, 1963. Children's poems.
- Person to Person, 1964. Poems.
- You Know Who, 1964. Children's poems.
- The King Who Saved Himself from Being Saved, 1966. Children's story in verse.
- This Strangest Everything, 1966. Poems.
- The Monster Den, 1966. Children's poems.
- An Alphabestiary, 1967. Poems.
- The Paradiso, 1970. Translation.
- Someone Could Win a Polar Bear, 1970. Children's poems.
- Lives of X, 1971. Verse autobiography.
- Manner of Speaking, 1972. Saturday Review columns.
- The Little That Is All, 1974. Poems.
- Fast & Slow, 1975. Children's poems.
- The Divine Comedy, 1977. All three sections published together.
- Limericks: Too Gross or Two Dozen Dirty Dozen Stanzas, 1978. With Isaac Asimov.
- For Instance, 1979. Poems.
- A Browser's Dictionary, 1980. Etymology.
- A Grossery of Limericks, 1981. With Isaac Asimov.
- A Second Browser's Dictionary, 1983. Etymology.
- Selected Poems, 1984.
- The Birds of Pompeii, 1985. Poems.
- Doodle Soup, 1985. Children's poems.
- Good Words to You, 1987. Etymology.
- Poems of Love and Marriage, 1988.
- Saipan: The War Diary of John Ciardi, 1988.
- Blabberhead, Bobble-Bud & Spade, 1988. Collection of children's poems.
- Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry, 1989.
- Echoes: Poems Left Behind, 1989.
- The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks, 1989. Children's poems.
- Mummy Took Lessons and Other Poems, 1990. Children's poems.
- Stations of the Air, 1993. Poems.
- The Collected Poems of John Ciardi, 1997. Edited by Edward M. Cifelli.
- Someone Could Win a Polar Bear
