Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn.

Life

Nurkse is the son of the eminent Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He graduated from Harvard College.[1] He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and Columbia University, and is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.[2][3] He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems and has written about the Spanish pastoral poems by contemporary Giannina Braschi. His work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, The Paris Review. His subjects have included mental health, trauma, and the September 11 terrorist attacks.[4]

Honors and awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Staggered Lights, Owl Creek Press, (July 1990), ISBN 978-0-937669-42-6
  • Voices Over Water, Graywolf Press (July 1993), ISBN 978-1-55597-188-5
  • Leaving Xaia, Four Way Books
  • The Rules of Paradise, Four Way books
  • The Fall, Knopf
  • Burnt Island. Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4000-4350-7.
  • The Border Kingdom, Alfred A. Knopf, August 8, 2008
  • A Night in Brooklyn, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The body 2020 Nurkse, D. (January 13, 2020). "The body". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 44. pp. 50–51.
Letter from Pico 2007
Novel to be read with closed eyes 2007
Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ "Writing Faculty".
  2. ↑ "Writing Faculty".
  3. ↑ "Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing | Visiting Writers | Dennis Nurkse". Archived from the original on 2010-05-24. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  4. ↑ "Mina Loy", Surrealist Painters and Poets, The MIT Press, 2001, doi:10.7551/mitpress/6565.003.0051, ISBN 978-0-262-27007-6, S2CID 258873378
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