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Wendy Barker has published four full-length collections of poetry,
including Poems from Paradise (2005), Way of Whiteness
(2000), Let the Ice Speak (1991), and Winter Chickens
(1990), as well as two chapbooks, Eve Remembers (1996) and
Between Frames (2006). A selection of poems accompanied by
autobiographical essays, Poems’ Progress, appeared in 2002,
and her translations (with Saranindranath Tagore) from the Bengali
of India’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore: Final
Poems (2001), received the Sourette Diehl Fraser Award from the
Texas Institute of Letters. Individual poems and translations have
appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry, The American
Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Stand, Partisan Review, and
Antioch. Barker has read her poetry at dozens of universities,
bookstores, festivals, and conferences in the United States, Europe,
and in India, and her work is frequently anthologized. As a scholar,
she is the author of Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the
Experience of Metaphor (1987) as well as co-editor (with Sandra
M. Gilbert) of The House is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth Stone
(1996). Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships as well as
other awards in poetry, including the Violet Crown Book Award (which
she has received twice, for Way of Whiteness in 2000, and for
Between Frames in 2007) and the
Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar,
her work has been translated into Hindi, Japanese, and Bulgarian. A
Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria during the fall of 2000, she
is Poet in Residence and professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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