Andrew Glaze Explained

Andrew Glaze
Birth Date:21 April 1920
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Death Place:Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Spouse:Dorothy Elliott Shari, Adriana Keathley

Andrew Glaze (April 21, 1920 – February 7, 2016) was an American poet, playwright and novelist. Much of Glaze's poetry reflects his coming of age in the American South, and his eventual return there. He also lived and wrote in New York City for 31 years. In New York City he became part of a circle of poets that included Oscar Williams,[1] Norman Rosten, John Ciardi and William Packard.[2]

Personal history

Andrew Louis Glaze was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Mildred Ezell Glaze and Dr. Andrew Louis Glaze M.D., a dermatologist.[3] [4] He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, with a younger sister and brother,[3] and attended Ramsay High School. He has been called both Andrew L. Glaze III, and Junior. His grandfather, Andrew Lewis Glaze, was a Confederate doctor during the Civil War.[5] [6] After graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Glaze went on to major in English at Harvard College.[7] [8] Immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1942, Glaze enlisted in the United States Air Force to serve during World War II. He sailed to Europe on the, which had been converted into a troop transport ship that could carry 15,000 men. "The American poet Andrew Glaze, then an Air Force lieutenant, stood on the foredeck and looked down on 'a quarter of a mile of human circles shooting craps'."[9] When the war was over, while waiting his turn to be shipped back home, he attended the University of Grenoble.[10] He died on February 7, 2016, in Birmingham, Alabama.[11]

Author

Glaze began to have success with his writing and between May 1950, and February 1956, Poetry magazine published seven of his poems. In 1951, Karl Shapiro, the editor of Poetry at the time, awarded him the magazine's Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize[3] [12] At the same time, The New Yorker accepted one poem in 1950, and a second in 1955.[13] He also had a short fiction piece appear in the 1953 4th Edition of New World Writing,[14] and a poem in the 9th Edition in 1956.[15] [16] By January 19, 1957, The Saturday Review had accepted and published a poem titled Suwanee River.[17]

In 1957, Glaze moved with wife and daughter to Greenwich Village in New York City. Glaze wrote a poem entitled As I walk mornings down Bleecker Street[18] (later retitled, "Alleluia"), and another poem, Village Parade, which appeared in his first book.[19] A son was born, but by 1961 the couple had divorced. The move to Manhattan, and subsequent divorce were later incorporated into Glaze's poem and book titled A City.[20] Glaze's ex-wife later became Dorothy Elliott Shari, and went on to join The Living Theatre, for a six-year tour of Europe.[21] [22]

The move to New York may have been for many reasons, but it was hastened by a fear of reprisal for articles that Glaze had written as a reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald. This was the dawn of the Civil rights movement, when racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were an everyday part of life in Birmingham. Glaze had testified against a deputy sheriff in defence of two black men. He also wrote about police brutality against demonstrators.[3] [23]

In 1962, Glaze married his second wife, dancer and actress, Adriana Keathley.[3] At the time they met, she was in the original Broadway cast of Camelot. She later danced in the original cast of Michael Bennett's Broadway show Ballroom.[24] In Andrew Glaze's Greatest Hits 1964–2004, Glaze notes that his poem Night Walk to a Country Theater (originally in The New Yorker) was written on a visit to Connecticut where his wife was performing.[13] The couple settled into an apartment on the West side of Manhattan, and for many years Glaze bicycled across town to the British Tourist Authority office on 5th Avenue and 54th Street, where he worked as a Press Officer, writing travel stories.[25] [26] [27] His morning bicycle journey to work, heading East along 54th Street, inspired the poem Reality Street which was published in the magazine The Atlantic. The evening trip home, going West on 53rd Street, resulted in the matching poem Fantasy Street, which appeared in The New Yorker.[13] Glaze referred to them as "Two Odes, after the fashion of Milton's L'Allego and Il Penseroso". In 1978, Glaze did a reading and interview on WNYC radio, and stated that before The New Yorker published Fantasy Street, they sent a fact checker out to follow the entire route of the poem and check every location mentioned in it for accuracy.[28] That same year, the reviewer in New York Times described Glaze's poetry as "wonderful company. I would like to just quote and quote."[29]

Glaze's first poetry book, Damned Ugly Children was published in 1966. The book was well received in a review in The New York Times by Richard Eberhart, "...Glaze's poems are refreshing in the intellectual health they show ... He possesses a true richness of psychic perception".[30] [31] That same year the American Library Association named the book, "One of the most notable books of 1966".[32] On the wave of this acclaim, Glaze was invited to participate in the 1967 Morris Gray Lecture Series at Harvard, and to sign their historic Morris Gray Lecture Signature Book.[33] A few months later, in June 1968, Robert Mazzocco reviewed the book, together with one by poet Robert Bly, in The New York Review of Books. The header for the dual review was "Jeremiads at Half-Mast".[34] The following summer of 1969, Glaze returned to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, this time as a guest faculty member.

In 1974, with the assistance of producer Joseph Papp,[35] Glaze had a play, Kleinhoff Demonstrates tonight,[36] produced at the Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis. Seven theatre groups performed the play between 1971—1988, and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival did a production with the rock star, Meat Loaf, in a leading role. A second play, The Man-Tree, had a staged reading in 1974 by Joseph Papp's The Public Theater. Two years later, The American Repertory Company of London, performed Glaze's play The Man-Tree in London.[37]

Glaze's book I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse appeared in 1981 and was published and chosen by Library Journal as one of the best small press titles of that year.[3] In the title poem, Glaze describes a busy Southern courthouse of the 1950s; and compares the Prosecutor to a bull frog on a lillypad, addressing a pond of "obedient" followers who wait for a signal "to sing".

Two of his plays were produced in 1983, Love is Nothing to Laugh At and Uneasy Lies.[38] [39] The latter was reviewed in the New York Post by William A. Raidy.

Between 1988–2002, Glaze prepared four new books of poetry for publication.[3] The first to be published, in 1991, was Reality Street. In 1997, the second, a collection of Glaze's poems titled Carnal Blessings was a finalist for the T.S. Eliot poetry prize.[40] A third book of poems went to print in 1998 with the title, Someone Will Go On Owing, selected poems, 1966–1992, and won the SIBA Award.[41] [42]

In 2002, the fourth book, Remembering Thunder was released, after which Glaze and his wife moved to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. This time Maxine Kumin commented, "His original and unsettling voice makes these poems a real triumph".[43] Once he'd resettled in Birmingham, Glaze continued to write, and in 2004 his book Andrew Glaze: Greatest Hits 1964–2004 was published.

In 2012 the Alabama Writers' Conclave announced Glaze's appointment as the 11th Poet Laureate of Alabama, beginning in 2013.[44] On November 5, 2012, he was officially commissioned by the Governor of Alabama in a ceremony at the State Capitol building in Montgomery.

On June 8, 2015, Glaze was an inaugural inductee into the Alabama Writer's Hall of Fame, along with Helen Keller, Harper Lee, and nine other writers with roots in Alabama.[45]

In August 2015, his ninth book of poetry, a collection of previously unpublished poems titled Overheard in a Drugstore and other poems was released by NewSouth Books.

Works

Poetry books

Poetry booklets

Artisan oversized folio

Recordings, audio tape, videotape

Interviews with, quotes from, and discussions of, Andrew Glaze

Play productions and readings

External links

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Williams, Oscar mss., 1920–1966 . Lilly Library Manuscript Collection at Indiana University . 1959–1968 . Index to Correspondents "Glaze, Andrew", Index to Photographs "Glaze, Andrew" and "Glaze, Adriana" . July 30, 2010.
  2. Book: Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosady and Poetic Devices . Packard, William . 1994 . Harper Collins . Montgomery, Alabama . 0-06-016130-2 . Xiii, Preface=Paragraph 13 "Helen Adam was a constant source of friendship and encouragement, as were ... Andrew Glaze, Stephen Stepanchev,..." . registration .
  3. Web site: Andrew Glaze . Haddin . Theodore . University of Auburn . October 5, 2008 . May 8, 2011.
  4. Web site: Birmingham Dermatological Society . American Medical Association Dermatological Archives . Archives of Dermatology . Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(6):1049., volume 21 no.6 . June 1930. July 26, 2010.
  5. Web site: Biographic appendix, Giles County, Tennessee . Rootsweb, Ancestry.com . Glaze M.D. . Andrew L. . paragraph #30 . n.d. . May 8, 2011.
  6. Web site: Giles County, 11th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, 6th (1st) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . Rootsweb, Ancestry.com . Section heading "Some Giles Countians who served in this regiment". Glaze, Andrew L. . n.d. . July 29, 2010.
  7. Web site: Harvard University – Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA) – Class of 1942 . Harvard University . page 100 of 320 . April 29, 2011.
  8. Web site: The Harvard Crimson- Leverett, Robert Frost Guest of Honor . The Harvard Crimson . March 24, 1936 . October 5, 2011.
  9. Web site: When Does This Place Get To New York? The Queen Mary in Peace and War . Bocca, Geoffrey . American Heritage Magazine . June–July 1979 . Magazine Article Archives . Volume 30, Issue 4, paragraph 18 . 4 . July 26, 2010.
  10. Web site: AlabamaBound . Birmingham Public Library . 14 March 2003 . April 14, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723170734/http://www.alabamabound.org/AuthorPages/GlazeAndrew.htm . July 23, 2011 . dead . mdy-all .
  11. Web site: Alabama poet laureate Andrew Glaze dead at 95 . AL.com . 2016-02-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160209092834/http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/alabama_poet_laureate_andrew_g.html . February 9, 2016 .
  12. Web site: Poetry Magazine . The Poetry Foundation . 2011 . October 3, 2011.
  13. Web site: The New Yorker . Conde Nast . August 26, 1950 – January 25, 1982 . April 14, 2011.
  14. Book: New World Writing: fourth mentor selection MS96 . Glaze, Andrew . a fictional short story . 1953 . New American Library of World Literature, Inc. . New York, New York . 55–66.
  15. Book: New World Writing: ninth mentor selection MD170 . Glaze, Andrew . a poem . 1956 . New American Library of World Literature, Inc. . New York, New York.
  16. Web site: Guide to the New World Writing Records . Andrea Benefiel . Jennifer Meehan . Yale University Library Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale Collection of American Literature . 2010 . Collection Contents Series I. Correspondence, New World Writing records YCAL MSS 388 – Page 11, Box 7, Folder 176, Glaze, Andrew (Issues #4 and #9) circa 1953–1956 . October 11, 2011 . July 21, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100721114301/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/beinecke:newworld/PDF . dead .
  17. Suwanee River. Glaze, Andrew . The Saturday Review . January 19, 1957 . 44.
  18. Web site: Poems and related papers . Glaze, Andrew . Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard . June 30, 2010 . call no. MS Am 1822 . July 28, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100708054920/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01302 . July 8, 2010 . dead .
  19. Book: Damned Ugly Children . registration . Glaze, Andrew . 1966 . Trident Press (Simon & Schuster) . New York, New York . 66-24829 . 17.
  20. Book: Someone Will Go On Owing selected poems, 1966–1992 . Glaze, Andrew . 1998 . Black Belt Press . Montgomery, Alabama . 1-881320-91-X . pages 131—139, "A City" . registration .
  21. News: Obituary for Dorothy E. Shari . New York Times . June 30, 2007 . July 26, 2010.
  22. 1144460 . Paradise Now: Notes, the Living Theatre . Julian. Beck . The Drama Review. 1969 . 13 . 90–107. 10.2307/1144460 .
  23. Book: Dorsey, Mignette Y. Patrick . Speak Truth to Power: The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer . October 2010 . University of Alabama Press . 978-0-8173-5556-2 . Tuscaloosa . 26, 66, 120, 121, 127 . "Andrew Glaze Jr., "Chief Reclaims Badges – Two 'beating case' Policemen Fired" . January 30, 2023 . registration.
  24. Web site: Adriana Keathley . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . July 26, 2010.
  25. News: Sheriff Wants Robin Hood . Glaze, Andrew . St. Petersburg Times . June 15, 1970 . Google News Archive Search . 43 . July 26, 2010 .
  26. News: Hay: a Town, Bookstore, and Good Food source . Glaze, Andrew . Sarasota Herald Tribune . June 20, 1982 . Google News Archive Search . 33 . October 26, 2011.
  27. News: Buxton Sets Summer Art Fete . Glaze, Andrew . Sarasota Herald Tribune . March 4, 1979 . Google News Archive Search . 62 . October 26, 2011.
  28. Web site: Andrew Glaze interview by Walter James Miller . WNYC Radio . June 2, 1978 . June 4, 2013.
  29. Schjeldahl, Peter. Three Poets. The Week in Review. New York Times. 17 December 1978
  30. Web site: Shock or Shut Up . Eberhart, Richard . The New York Times, archives . November 13, 1966 . a review of Damned Ugly Children, by Andrew Glaze . April 30, 2011.
  31. Book: Richard Eberhart: a descriptive bibliography, 1921–1987 (literary criticism) . Stuart T. Wright . Meckler . 1989 . 0-88736-346-6 . 321 . ("Shock or Shut Up." New York Times Book Review, 13, Nov. 1966, p. 6, review of Andrew Glaze, "Damned Ugly Children") . October 28, 2011.
  32. Book: Damned Ugly Children . Glaze, Andrew . 1963–65 . Trident Press (Simon & Schuster). USA . LOC #66-24829 Dust Jacket Cover.
  33. Web site: Morris Grey Lectures: Signature Book . Poetry Harvard . 15 . Poetry at Harvard, Signature Date-April 19, 1967 . July 26, 2010.
  34. Web site: Jeremiads at Half-Mast . Mazzocco, Robert . New York Review of Books . June 20, 1968 . Volume 10, number 12 . April 14, 2011.
  35. Web site: Joseph Pap and his connection to the Cricket Theater . MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) Archive, content=Interview with New York producer Joseph Pap about the Cricket Theater's new play "Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight." Pap also discusses finding an audience for new works. . 7 December 1973 . October 13, 2011.
  36. Book: Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight . Glaze, Andrew . Googlebooks . 1971 . October 8, 2011.
  37. Book: Raindance: a comedy in two acts . Ribalow, Meir . (originally Samuel French Inc.) . 0-573-61508-X . 1st page Biography of Meir Ribalow, 2nd paragraph, "Between 1972-75, Mr. Ribalow was Joseph Papp's Production Associate at the New York Shakespeare Festival", ... In 1976, he founded the American Repertory Company of London. …which presented British premieres of … playwrights including … Andrew Glaze." . 1985 . October 13, 2011.
  38. Book: Willis . John . John A. Willis . John Willis' Theatre World 1982-1983 Season Volume 39 . 978-0-517-55270-4 . 1984 . . 94 . 2021-04-27.
  39. Book: New York Magazine, Theatre Listing, Uneasy Lies . New York Magazine . 7 March 1983 . 125 . October 8, 2011.
  40. Web site: The T.S. Eliot Prize . Truman State University Press . 1997 . Carnal Blessings . Glaze, Andrew . July 28, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100902195131/http://tsup.truman.edu/TSEliotPrize/previous_winners.asp . September 2, 2010 . dead . mdy .
  41. Web site: Authors Round the South, SIBA Winners, 1999 Winners . Someone Will Go On Owing . Glaze, Andrew . July 28, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100711003055/http://www.authorsroundthesouth.com/siba-book-awards/7845-siba-2010-book-award-winners. July 11, 2010 . live.
  42. Book: Someone Will Go On Owing selected poems, 1966–1992 . Glaze, Andrew . 1998 . Black Belt Press . Montgomery, Alabama . 1-881320-91-X . dust jacket back page, "…Two of my favorite poems are his, "Trash Dragon of Shensi" and "Fantasy Street" –Maxine Kumin." . registration .
  43. Book: Remembering Thunder . Glaze, Andrew . 2002 . New South Books . Montgomery, Alabama . 1-58838-077-7 . back dust cover page.
  44. News: Former reporter, Pulitzer runner-up named poet Alabama laureate . Jeremy. Gray . The Birmingham News . July 24, 2012 . July 24, 2012.
  45. Web site: Alabama Writers' Forum : Hall of Fame : About . Writersforum.org . 2016-02-11 . February 9, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160209150715/http://www.writersforum.org/hall-of-fame/about.html . dead .
  46. Book: Hitchcock, Bert . The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs . Louisiana State University Press . 2002 . 0-8071-2692-6 . Flora . Joseph M. . 104 . Birmingham, Alabama . October 26, 2011 . Mackethan . Lucinda H. . Taylor . Todd . registration.
  47. Book: Geniuses and Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends . Rodman, Selden. . Green Tree Press . 1997 . San Francisco, Ca . 34, 35 . 0-9645891-1-7 . August 5, 2012.
  48. Book: The Great American Poetry Bake-off, fourth series, Volume 4. Peters, Robert . 1991 . Rowman & Littlefield . Lanham, Maryland . 0-8108-2410-8.
  49. Web site: Light Quarterly . Light Quarterly . Summer 2005 . 3 . October 20, 2011 . April 25, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425050925/http://www.lightquarterly.org/PDF/LightSum05.pdf . dead .
  50. Book: The Poet's Dictionary: a handbook of prosody and poetic devices . Packard, William . Harper Perennial/Harper Collins . 1994 . 0-06-016130-2 . copyright credits . 218 . October 28, 2011.
  51. Web site: Interview with Andrew Glaze . Public Libraries of Birmingham/Jefferson County . Winter 2004 . Volume 14, Number 1, February, March, April 2004 . October 25, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111024231144/http://jclc.org/Reader/2004/2004spring/page11.html . October 24, 2011 . dead . mdy-all .
  52. Book: Speak Truth to Power: the story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer . University of Alabama Press . Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey . August 4, 2010 . 120–121 . 9780817355562 . citations for quotes from "Andrew Glaze Jr.", Birmingham Post-Herald article "On Order of Personnel Board—Two Policemen are Fired for Beating Negro Prisoner in Jail", and quotes on pages 10, 14, 20–21, 36, 61–62 from "Glaze, Andrew" . October 21, 2011.
  53. Web site: Whitman as Poetic Subject: Additional Citations . https://web.archive.org/web/20100726214743/http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1181&context=wwqr . dead . July 26, 2010 . University of Iowa . Winter 1988 . Volume 5, Number 3 . October 25, 2011.
  54. Web site: Changing Scene Theatre Records . The Denver Public Library Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Project . 2000 . Introduction, Container list, Series 2-Production List, Business Productions Box 9, scroll down to FF82 – November 17 – December 4, 1988 – Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight: program, cast list . October 13, 2011 . April 25, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425063819/http://eadsrv.denverlibrary.org/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=WH1483_d0e37&fmt=text&base=fa&root=&n=&qid=&ss=&as=&ai= . dead .
  55. Web site: Finding Aid for Series III: Scripts, 1972–1992, Guide to the New York Shakespeare Festival Records. Series III: Scripts, 1972–1992 . Glaze, Andrew . The New York Public Library, Collections, Archival . collection number *T-Mss 1993-028 Series III, Sub-series 3-Other Scripts, Collection box number 3-30, folder 7, Shakespeare Festival Script #53, alphabetical listing under "Andrew Glaze" . October 12, 2011.
  56. Web site: Everything That Rises . 1998 Turner Network Television, Inc. A Time Warner Company . 1998 . Fifth paragraph biography film credits for the actor "Meat Loaf" ("Meat Loaf starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of ..., Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight,..." . October 13, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090731122723/http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/everything/castbios.html . July 31, 2009 . dead . mdy-all .
  57. Web site: Focus . 2001 Paramount Classics . 2001 . Fourth paragraph biography film credits for the actor Michael Lee Aday (aka "Meat Loaf"), ("Michael Lee starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of ..., Kleinhoff Demonstrates Tonight,..." . October 12, 2011.
  58. Web site: Finding Aid for Series III: Scripts, 1972–1992 Guide to the New York Shakespeare Festival Records. Series III: Scripts, 1972–1992 . Glaze, Andrew . New York Public Library, Collections, Archival . Collection number *T-Mss 1993-028 Series III, collection box number 3-261, folder 9, alphabetical listing under M for "The Man-Tree" . 2008–2009 . October 5, 2011.
  59. Web site: Poet May Swenson Biography (1913–1989) . Poetry Foundation . n.d. . Bibliography . July 28, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100807083116/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6702. August 7, 2010 . live.
  60. Web site: Bruce Jay Friedman . Grove Atlantic . n.d. . Bibliography, Plays . October 10, 2011 . February 26, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110226175144/http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~239 . dead .
  61. Web site: American Place Theatre Announces Its Second Membership Season: New plays by American Writers . The Village Voice . October 21, 1965 . 19 . October 11, 2011.

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