James Scully

Poet

San Francisco, CA

California US

Email:

james.scully8@gmail.com

Website:

poevotes.com

Author's Bio

Poet, editor, essayist, and translator James Scully was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the author of more than ten volumes of poetry, including The Marches (1967), which won the Lamont Poetry Award (now the James Laughlin Award); Santiago Poems (1975), about his experience as a Guggenheim fellow in Chile during Pinochet’s coup; and Angel in Flames: Selected Poems and Translations 1967–2011 (2011). He was a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut before his death in late 2020.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Donatello's Version (Curbstone Press, 2006)

LINE BREAK: POETRY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE (Curbstone Press, 2005)

RAGING BEAUTY: SELECTED POEMS (Azul Editions, 1994)

APOLLO HELMET (Curbstone Press, 1983)

MAY DAY (Minnesota Review Press, 1980)

PROMETHEUS BOUND, Aeschylus translation (Oxford University Press, 1975)

Avenue of the Americas (University of Massachusetts Press, 1971)

THE MARCHES (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967)

Chapbooks:

OCEANIA (Azul Editions, 2008)

SANTIAGO POEMS (Curbstone Press, 1975)

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Last update: Feb 18, 2021