
A Slant of Light
Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published on 8. November 2018
Book
Hardback
158 pages
978-1-61148-874-6 (ISBN)
Description
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft's life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
8 BW Photos
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-874-6 (9781611488746)
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Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
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Persons
Peter Balakian is an author and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry He teaches at Colgate University.
Bruce Smith is an author, and finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and the winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize.
Bruce Smith is an author, and finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award, and the winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize.
Editor
Contributions
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith
1 Jack Wheatcroft
Philip Roth
2 Jack Wheatcroft, In Memoriam
Betsy Sholl
3 "History Became the Words": Trans/Scribing Conscience
in John Wheatcroft's Answering Fire
Cynthia Hogue
4 Collections of Stories, Years Later
John Ramsay
5 Remembering John Wheatcroft
Matthew Stevenson
6 Sundays
Tom Gardner
Images of Jack, Figures 1-4
7 Dear Katherine
Jane Maas
8 Remembering Jack
Gary Sojka
9 Memories of Jack Wheatcroft
Jan Balakian
10 Jack Wheatcroft
Dennis O'Brien
11 Marginalia
Teresa Leo
12 Bucknell's Boy of Summer
Kurt Landefeld
Images of Jack, Figures 5-8
13 Jack
Philip Brady
14 Rhyming Forward and Back
Dierdre O'Connor
15 Jack Wheatcroft and The Stadler Center for Poetry
Anne Rogers Poliakoff
16 Jack, Some Scenes
Peter Balakian
17 Jack Wheatcroft: Recreant at Lewisburg
Bruce Smith
18 Late Afternoon, Bucknell Hall
Shara McCallum
Published Works of John Wheatcroft
About the Contributors
Foreword
Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith
1 Jack Wheatcroft
Philip Roth
2 Jack Wheatcroft, In Memoriam
Betsy Sholl
3 "History Became the Words": Trans/Scribing Conscience
in John Wheatcroft's Answering Fire
Cynthia Hogue
4 Collections of Stories, Years Later
John Ramsay
5 Remembering John Wheatcroft
Matthew Stevenson
6 Sundays
Tom Gardner
Images of Jack, Figures 1-4
7 Dear Katherine
Jane Maas
8 Remembering Jack
Gary Sojka
9 Memories of Jack Wheatcroft
Jan Balakian
10 Jack Wheatcroft
Dennis O'Brien
11 Marginalia
Teresa Leo
12 Bucknell's Boy of Summer
Kurt Landefeld
Images of Jack, Figures 5-8
13 Jack
Philip Brady
14 Rhyming Forward and Back
Dierdre O'Connor
15 Jack Wheatcroft and The Stadler Center for Poetry
Anne Rogers Poliakoff
16 Jack, Some Scenes
Peter Balakian
17 Jack Wheatcroft: Recreant at Lewisburg
Bruce Smith
18 Late Afternoon, Bucknell Hall
Shara McCallum
Published Works of John Wheatcroft
About the Contributors