# David Ignatow

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{{Short description|American poet and editor (1914–1977)}}
{{for|the Yiddish novelist|David Ignatoff}}

{{Infobox writer
| name             = David Ignatow
| image            = David Ignatow 1973.jpg
| caption          = From the 1973 York College/CUNY Yearbook
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1914|02|07}}
| birth_place      = New York City, U.S.
| death_date       = {{Death date|1997|11|17}} (age 83 years)
| death_place      = [East Hampton](/source/East_Hampton_(town)%2C_New_York), [New York](/source/New_York_(State)), U.S.
| occupation       = Poet
| education      =
| genre            =Poetry
}}

'''David Ignatow''' (February 7, 1914 &ndash; November 17, 1997) was an American poet and editor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-ignatow|title = David Ignatow biography|date = September 6, 2021}}</ref>

==Life==
David Ignatow was born in [Brooklyn, New York](/source/Brooklyn) on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. His parents were [Jewish](/source/Jews) immigrants from Austria-Hungary and Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ignatow (David) Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2b69n86k/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref> He died on November 17, 1997, aged 83, at his home in [East Hampton, New York](/source/East_Hampton_(town)%2C_New_York). His papers are held at [University of California, San Diego](/source/University_of_California%2C_San_Diego).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2b69n86k/|title = Ignatow (David) Papers}}</ref>

Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the ''[American Poetry Review](/source/American_Poetry_Review)'' and the ''[Beloit Poetry Journal](/source/Beloit_Poetry_Journal)'', and as poetry editor of ''[The Nation](/source/The_Nation)''.

He taught at the [New School for Social Research](/source/New_School_for_Social_Research), the [University of Kentucky](/source/University_of_Kentucky), the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas), [Vassar College](/source/Vassar_College), [York College (CUNY)](/source/York_College%2C_City_University_of_New_York), [New York University](/source/New_York_University), and [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/ignatow/|title=David Ignatow, Poet}}</ref>  He was president of the [Poetry Society of America](/source/Poetry_Society_of_America) from 1980 to 1984 and poet-in-residence at the [Walt Whitman Birthplace Association](/source/Walt_Whitman_Birthplace_Association) in 1987.

==Awards==
Ignatow's many honors include a [Bollingen Prize](/source/Bollingen_Prize), two [Guggenheim fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_fellowship)s, the [John Steinbeck Award](/source/John_Steinbeck_Award), and a [National Institute of Arts and Letters](/source/National_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters) award "for a lifetime of creative effort." He received the [Shelley Memorial Award](/source/Shelley_Memorial_Award) (1966), the [Frost Medal](/source/Frost_Medal) (1992), and the [William Carlos Williams Award](/source/William_Carlos_Williams_Award) (1997) of the Poetry Society of America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/777|title = About David Ignatow &#124; Academy of American Poets}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

*''Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems'' (BOA Editions, 1999)
*''At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties'' (1998)
*''I Have a Name'' (1996)
*''The End Game and Other Stories'' (1996)
*''Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994'' (1994)
*''Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems'' (1991)
*''Shadowing the Ground'' (1991)
*''If We Knew'' (Polymorph Editions, 1991)
*''New and Collected Poems, 1970–1985'' (1986)
*''Leaving the Door Open'' (1984)
*''Whisper to the Earth'' (1981)
*''Conversations'' (1980)
*''Sunlight'' (1979)
*''Tread the Dark'' (1978)
*''Selected Poems'' (1975)
*''Facing the Tree'' (1975)
*''Poems: 1934–1969'' (1970)
*''Rescue the Dead'' (1968)
*''Earth Hard: Selected Poems'' (1968)
*''Figures of the Human'' (1964)
*''Say Pardon'' (1962)
*''The Gentle Weightlifter'' (1955)
*''Poems'' ([Decker Press](/source/Decker_Press), 1948)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.webdelsol.com/ignatow/ Links to Ignatow's work]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051018155333/http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/tributes/ignatow.html A tribute] by Harvey Shapiro
*{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3378/the-art-of-poetry-no-23-david-ignatow| journal=The Paris Review| title=David Ignatow, The Art of Poetry No. 23| date=| author=Gerard Malanga | volume=Fall 1979| issue=76}}
*[http://www.york.cuny.edu/library/about-the-library/resolveuid/f9ce8f850bb1fe8dd228788981fd515c ''On David Ignatow's Portrait''], by Alan Cooper, in the Spring 2010 York College Library newsletter, p. 7.
*[http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0002.html David Ignatow Papers] MSS 2. [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/ Special Collections & Archives], UC San Diego Library.
*[https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zgqj David Ignatow collection]
* [https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/finding-aids/D324 Ignatow Graubart Papers], Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, [University of Rochester](/source/University_of_Rochester)

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