Cynthia zarin poems
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Poetry and Painting: Visualizing Verse on the Page and the Canvas
On the occasion of the publication of her new poetry collection, Next Day: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf) the poet Cynthia Zarin sat down with her daughter, Rose Seccareccia, to talk about using her painting “Pamet River” for the cover of the book, and keeping art in the family
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Cynthia Zarin: Rose, my first two collections of poetry had paintings on their jackets by your father, Michael Seccareccia. Mike and I worked closely beside each other in our early days together and choosing his paintings for Fire Lyric and The Swordfish Tooth were important moments in that life. I thought it would be wonderful to make a kind of full circle—especially since this book, Next Day, is a “new and selected” volume and so the poems span a time from before you were born, to now—and have your work on the cover this time around. Do you think that we influenced you to become a painter?
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Cynthia Zarin
American journalist
Cynthia Zarin | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 65–66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University Columbia University (MFA) |
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| Spouses | Michael Seccareccia (m. 1988, divorced)Joseph Goddu (m. 1997, divorced) |
Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.
Life
She graduated from Harvard Universitymagna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.
She teaches at Yale University.[1] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[2] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[3] Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York-based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.[4] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Str On the Shelf Inverno By Cynthia Zarin Cynthia Zarin has been hiding in plain sight. Or maybe it’s more appropriate to say the culture hasn’t pigeonholed her. At 64, she’s had a career as gloriously peripatetic as any I’ve encountered: a longtime New Yorker staff writer; the author of five volumes of poetry, two books of nonfiction and several works for children; a Guggenheim fellow who has seen two of her poems staged as ballets; and for some time a poet in residence at Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she was given an office up a “very, very windy stairway” overlooking its vaulted Gothic Revival interior. Now Zarin has made another exhilarating pivot, publishing her first novel. The spare and impressionistic “Inverno,” out this week, functions in a lot of ways like a poem. Opening in February “near the north ball fields in
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