# Gary Miranda

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'''Gary Miranda''' (born 1939 in [Bremerton, Washington](/source/Bremerton%2C_Washington)<ref name=Lawrence>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MoMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4938,3316778&dq=gary-miranda&hl=en "House links poet, spirit of Robert Frost," Lawrence Journal-World, July 14, 1979]</ref>) is an American [poet](/source/poet).

==Life==

Miranda was raised in the [Pacific Northwest](/source/Pacific_Northwest). He spent six years in a [Jesuit](/source/Society_of_Jesus) seminary, then did graduate work at [San Jose State College](/source/San_Jose_State_College) and the [University of California, Irvine](/source/University_of_California%2C_Irvine).<ref>[http://www.pacificu.edu/news/detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=1648&CATEGORY_ID=39 "Noted Poet, Gary Miranda, to be featured during Reunion Weekend," Pacific University]</ref><ref name=Gary>[http://garymiranda.com/ Gary Miranda homepage]</ref> He has published poems in numerous magazines, including [The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker), The [Atlantic Monthly](/source/Atlantic_Monthly), [Poetry](/source/Poetry_(magazine)), The [American Poetry Review](/source/American_Poetry_Review), and elsewhere.

His 1978 collection ''Listeners at the Breathing Place'' was nominated for the [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize). He has won nine awards from the [Poetry Society of America](/source/Poetry_Society_of_America), and in July 1979, Miranda was chosen by the editors of the Atlantic Monthly to be the third poet-in-residence at [The Frost Place](/source/The_Frost_Place), [Robert Frost's](/source/Robert_Frost) house in Franconia, New Hampshire, after [Katha Pollitt](/source/Katha_Pollitt) and [Robert Hass](/source/Robert_Hass).<ref name=Lawrence/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.frostplace.org/html/residentpoets-past.html |title=Frost Place resident poets |access-date=2010-07-28 |archive-date=2010-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625062909/http://www.frostplace.org/html/residentpoets-past.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
From 1970 to 1973, he was a [Fulbright Lecturer](/source/Fulbright_Program) at the [University of Athens](/source/National_and_Kapodistrian_University_of_Athens) in Greece<ref>[http://www.fulbright.gr/documents/60yearsPublication.pdf "60 Years in Greece," The Fulbright Foundation]</ref> He has taught writing and literature at various colleges and universities, most recently as writer-in-residence at [Reed College](/source/Reed_College) in [Portland, Oregon](/source/Portland%2C_Oregon).<ref name=Gary/>

==Reviews and criticism==

Miranda's poetry has been well received.  His first collection, ''Listeners at the Breathing Place'', chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, was described as "inviting and impressive" in the [Library Journal](/source/Library_Journal)<ref>Joseph Garrison, Library Journal; 10/15/78, Vol. 103 Issue 18, p2117, 1/9p</ref>  [Maxine Kumin](/source/Maxine_Kumin) called it "a first book to be proud of," and Miranda "a versatile and sensitive poet."<ref>Gary Miranda, Listeners at the Breathing Place, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 1978, back cover</ref> Writing in ''Poetry'', Michael Heffernan called the book "breathtaking."<ref>Gary Miranda, Grace Period, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 1983, back cover</ref>

The Library Journal review of Miranda's second collection, ''Grace Period'', said it was "written with a sure hand," and that Miranda "bears witness" and "surprises us."<ref>Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Library Journal; 08/01/83, Vol. 108 Issue 14, p1486, 1/9p</ref> In a review of ''Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology'', edited by Deborah DeNicola, David Garza calls the opening to Miranda's poem on Narcissus "insightful and seductive."<ref>[http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A73632 Austin Books, September 3, 1999]</ref>

Miranda's translation of [Rilke](/source/Rainer_Maria_Rilke)'s ''[Duino Elegies](/source/Duino_Elegies)'' received wide praise.  [Robin Skelton](/source/Robin_Skelton), in [The Malahat Review](/source/The_Malahat_Review), said it "retains the brilliance of the original;" Robert Boyers, in [Salmagundi](/source/Salmagundi_(magazine)), said, "Nowhere does it read like a translation." Rilke Scholar John Mood called it "the nearest to a definitive Elegies we're apt ever to get in the English language." Jan Freeman, director of Paris Press, said, "No other translation compares to this one."<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1885214073/ editorial reviews on Amazon]</ref> Less effusive, the review in the [Virginia Quarterly Review](/source/Virginia_Quarterly_Review) called the translation "admirable," "clear and readable," and "faithful" to Rilke's meaning, but found Miranda's translation "prosaic," and prefers the translation by [Harry Behn](/source/Harry_Behn).<ref>Notes on current books: Poetry. Virginia Quarterly Review, 0042675X, Summer97, Vol. 73, Issue 3</ref>

Miranda has not been identified strongly with a single school of poetry; although three of his poems were included in the [New Formalist](/source/New_Formalism) collection ''Strong Measures'', he does not limit himself to traditional forms - in fact, most of his work is free verse.<ref>Strong Measures, Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms, Philip Dacey and David Jauss, ed., Harper and Row, 1986</ref>

==Selected works==

===Poetry collections===
*''Turning Sixty'', Zoland Books, 2003
*''Grace Period'', [Princeton University Press](/source/Princeton_University_Press), 1983.
*''Duino Elegies'', by [Rainer Maria Rilke](/source/Rainer_Maria_Rilke),  Azul, 1996. Tavern Books, 2013.
*''Listeners at the Breathing Place'', Princeton University Press, 1979.
*''The Seed That Dies: Twelve Elegies'', Kedros Press (Athens, Greece), 1973.

===Prose books===
*''Splendid Audacity: The Story of [Pacific University](/source/Pacific_University)'', 2000.
*''Following A River:  Portland's Congregation'' [Neveh Shalom](/source/Neveh_Shalom_Synagogue_(Portland%2C_Oregon)), 1869-1989. Jewish Historical Society of Oregon, 1989.
*''Health Care Research in an HMO: Two Decades of Discovery''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. (Editor-in-chief)
*''A Heaven in the Eye'', by Clyde Rice, editor.  Breitenbush Books, 1984.   Winner, [Western States Book Award](/source/Western_States_Book_Award), judged by Robert Penn Warren.<ref name=garybooks>[http://garymiranda.com/ "Books" tab on Gary Miranda page]</ref>

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