Wendy Barker

Poetry

Eating San Gimignano

Perennial

Biographical Information

Wendy Barker has published four collections of poetry. Her latest book, Way of Whiteness, won the Writers League of Texas Violet Crown Award for Poetry in 2000 and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (see Wings Press website).

Individual poems and translations have appeared in such journals as Poetry, The American Scholar, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Nimrod, to name a few. She has received NEA and Rockefeller Bellagio fellowships. She is a professor of English at The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Books

• Way of Whiteness, Wings Press, 2000
• Winter Chickens, Corona Publishing Company, 1990
• Let the Ice Speak, Greenfield Review Press, 1991
• Eve Remembers, Aark Arts Press, London, 1996
• Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, reprint 1991, translation Japanese 1991
• The House is Made of Poetry: The Art of Ruth Stone, Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, (a collection of essays co-edited with Sandra M. Gilbert)

Influences Cited in the Interview

• H.D. (Hilda Dolittle)
• Ruth Stone
• John Keats
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• William Shakespeare
• John Donne
• Robert Browning
• William Carlos Williams
• T.S. Eliot
• Emily Dickinson

Interviewer

Jenny Browne

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