David Ignatow

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David Ignatow
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Place of Birth and Death

• David was born in Brooklyn, New York on February
  7, 1914.
• He spent most of his life in New York City area.
• He died at the age of 83 on November 17, 1997.

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Family background

• David married the artist Rose Graubart and
  together they had a son David and a daughter
  Yaedi.
• Davids son was a schizophrenic and never
  recovered.
• Ignatow's parents were immigrants.
• His mother, Yetta Reinbach, from Austria-Hungary,
  was the illiterate daughter of a forest warden
• His father was born a Jew in the Czarist Ukraine

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Education

• David graduated from high school in 1932 and did
  not go on for further studies.
• He was employed as a writer in research by the
  Federal Government.
• Ignatow was office manager at his father's
  bookbindery before establishing his literary
  career.

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Contribution to American Literature

• In his academic and literary career, Ignatow was
  Instructor at the New School for Social Research
  in New York
• He participated in mass demonstrations and read
  at political poetry readings.
• He also supported the Berkeley free speech
  movement and the Afro-American struggle for
  equality.

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Davids Poetry Work

• The first book that Ignatow published was Poems.
• Later he published The Gentle Weight Lifter, Say
  Pardon, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

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Award and Recognitions

• Ignatow has been given two Guggenheim
  Fellowships.
• He has received the Award from the National
  Institute of Arts and Letters and the Poetry
  Society's Shelley Memorial Award.
• He also has been given the Bollingen Prize

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Works Cited Page

• http//webdelsol.com/ignatow/di-4.htm
• http//www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/trib
  utes/ignatow.html
• http//www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0762317.html
• http//www.poets.org
• http//poetry.about.com