David Ignatow
David Ignatow · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1914, Brooklyn, New York, USA — 1997, East Hampton, New York, USA
United States
David Ignatow is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
David Ignatow was an American poet whose spare, plain-spoken free verse drew on daily urban and working life, earning him the Bollingen Prize, a Wallace Stevens Award, and the Robert Frost Medal over a long career. He also taught and edited influential literary magazines. He was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn.
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Poet / lyricist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
