Christopher Bakken
Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, and professor at Allegheny College.[1]
He graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. and from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. He was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008.[2] He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos.[3]
His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Western Humanities Review.[4] His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize.
His burger recipe won a Food & Wine contest. [5]
Contents
Works
- "Confession" The Missouri Review 2012
- "Some Things Along Strada C.A. Rosetti", Parnassus: Poetry in Review via Poetry Daily. 2009.
- "Portrait Detail, with Pear", AGNI 2006
Books
- Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 0520275098
- Goat Funeral Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-931357-38-8
- After Greece Truman State University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-931112-00-0
Influences/Like Voices
- Constantine Cavafy
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- James Merrill
- Yannis Ritsos
- Walt Whitman
- Phil Collins
Translations
- The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, Translated Christopher Bakken, Roula Konsolaki, Truman State University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-931112-64-2
Anthologies
- Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, Truman State University Press, 2004. ISBN 1-931112-37-1
- "Ohio Elegy", Poets against the War, Editors Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0
- "Home Thoughts, from Abroad", Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977, Editor William J. Walsh, Mercer University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6
Review
If Bakken can, in the future, stay put in his resplendent Hellenic-inflected imagination for a good while, and avoid the art museum and his personal library, he may just write a book with the smell, taste, and texture of ambrosia. Goat Funeral isn’t quite that, but it’s not chopped liver, either.[6]
Awards
- 2005 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
- 2006 Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters
- 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for After Greece.
References
- ↑ http://www.allegheny.edu/academics/faculty_details.php?id=392&department=English
- ↑ http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/633
- ↑ http://www.writingworkshopsingreece.com
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/christopher_bakken
- ↑ http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/greek-island-lamb-burgers-with-grilled-feta
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Review of HONEY, OLIVES, OCTOPUS in Wall Street Journal
- Hunting for Octopus and Cooking for Michael Pollan
- "#3 - Christopher Bakken", First Book Interviews, October 13, 2008
