David Young

David Young
Emeritus Donald R. Longman Professor (1961)

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(440) 775-8576

David.Young@oberlin.edu

B.A., Carleton College, 1958
M.A., Yale University, 1959
Ph.D., Yale University, 1965

Modern poets; creative writing; translation; magical realist fiction; Renaissance drama; issues pertaining to ecology and bioregionalism.

David Young is the author of nine poetry collections, four critical studies, numerous translations and several anthologies. His latest collection of poems is At the White Window (Ohio State, 2000) and his book about living in Oberlin, with recipes, is Seasoning: A Poet's Year (Ohio State, 1999). On leave for the academic year 2001-02, he completed a translation of the 14th-century poet Petrarch and a critical book on modernist poetry, Six Modernist Moments. He is also an editor of FIELD magazine and the Oberlin College Press.


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	David Young Emeritus Donald R. Longman Professor (1961) Home page
	Peters G04
	(440) 775-8576
	David.Young@oberlin.edu
	B.A., Carleton College, 1958 M.A., Yale University, 1959 Ph.D., Yale University, 1965
	Modern poets; creative writing; translation; magical realist fiction; Renaissance drama; issues pertaining to ecology and bioregionalism. David Young is the author of nine poetry collections, four critical studies, numerous translations and several anthologies. His latest collection of poems is At the White Window (Ohio State, 2000) and his book about living in Oberlin, with recipes, is Seasoning: A Poet's Year (Ohio State, 1999). On leave for the academic year 2001-02, he completed a translation of the 14th-century poet Petrarch and a critical book on modernist poetry, Six Modernist Moments. He is also an editor of FIELD magazine and the Oberlin College Press.