George Bradley (poet) explained

George Bradley
Birth Name:	George Crawford Bradley Jr.
Birth Date:	22 January 1953
Birth Place:	Roslyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet, writer, editor
Alma Mater:	Yale University University of Virginia

George Bradley (born 1953) is an American poet, editor, and fiction writer whose work is characterized by formal structure, humor, and satirical narrative.

Life

Bradley was raised on Long Island and has lived in Virginia, New York City, Italy and Connecticut^{[1] [2]} and attended The Hill School, Yale University, and the University of Virginia. He has worked variously in construction, as a sommelier, as an editor and as a copywriter.^[3] At present, he imports and distributes a brand of olive oil (La Bontà di Fiesole) produced in Tuscany.^[2] He is married to Spencer Boyd, and they have one child, Beatrice Boyd Bradley.^{[4] [5]}

George Bradley's poems have appeared in The New Yorker,^[3] Poetry,^[3] New England Review,^[6] The New Republic,^[3] The Paris Review,^[7] The American Poetry Review,^[8] The Hartford Courant, Partisan Review,^[9] Southwest Review,^[10] America Illustrated, Western Humanities Review, Open City,^[11] Shenandoah,^[12] Verse (US and UK), Spazio Umano (Italy),^[13] Literary Imagination,^[2] The American Scholar,^[14] Raritan,^[15] and Almanacco (Italy) among other publications. Bradley's prose, including fiction and literary criticism, has been published in The Yale Review,^[16] Southwest Review, The American Scholar, The Houston Chronicle, and elsewhere.

Awards

• 1985: Yale Younger Poets Series, selected by James Merrill^[17]
• 1990: The Peter I. B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets^[3]
• 1990: National Endowment for the Arts Grant^[18]
• 1992: The Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters^[19]

Works

In 1998 he edited Yale Younger Poets Anthology, which traced the history of the first poetry series in America from its inception in 1919 to 1997. The critic Peter Davison praised this anthology in the Atlantic Monthly for uncovering an important chapter of American literary history: Bradley "introduces each selection with a brief identification of its author, and prefaces his anthology with introductory matter amounting to nearly a hundred pages of graceful, witty, and discriminating prose that combines aesthetic perception, historical understanding, and publishing shrewdness. The result is a book that illuminates the recesses between artists, audiences, public taste, and the history of American publication."^[20]

Poetry

• Book: The Paradise of Assassins . Alderman Press. 1978.
• Book: Terms To Be Met. Yale University Press. 1986. 978-0-300-03599-5.
• Book: Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . A.A. Knopf . 1991 . 978-0394589985.
• Book: The Fire Fetched Down . A.A. Knopf . 1996 . 978-0679446200.
• Book: Some Assembly Required . A.A. Knopf . 2001 . 978-0-375-41195-3 .
• Book: A Few of Her Secrets . Waywiser Press (U.K. and U.S.A.) . 2011 . 978-1-904130-42-0.
• Book: A Stroll in the Rain, New and Selected Poems . Louisiana State University Press . 2021 . 978-0-8071-7584-2 .

Anthologies

• Book: The Best American Poetry 1988 . Ashbery . John . Lehman . David . Collier Books . 1988 . 978-1-5011-9633-1.
• Book: The Best American Poetry 1997 . James . Tate . Lehman . David . Simon and Schuster . 1997 . 978-0-684-81452-0 .
• Book: The Yale Younger Poets Anthology . Bradley . George . Yale University Press . 1998 . 978-0-300-07473-4 .
• Book: Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry . Collins . Billy . Random House Trade Paperbacks . 2003 . 978-0-8129-6887-3 .
• Book: The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best Stories of the Year. . Furman . Laura . Anchor Books/Random House. . 2010 . 978-0-307-47236-6 .
• Book: The Best American Poetry 2018 . Gioia . Dana . Lehman . David . Scribner Poetry . 2018 . 978-1-5011-2779-3.

Translations

• Book: Montale . Eugenio . Bradley . George . Late Montale: poems written in his final years . Waywiser Press . 2022 . 978-1-911379-05-8 .

Notes and References

1. News: Lovenheim . Barbara . Barbara Lovenheim . 1986-12-07 . East End Inspires Paean in Poetry . The New York Times . New York City . 2021-02-02.
2. 2020-12-08 . Notes on Contributors . Literary Imagination . 22 . 3 . 294–295 . 10.1093/litimag/imaa059.
3. Web site: George Bradley . Random House . 2021-02-02.
4. News: . Spencer Boyd Is Married to George C. Bradley Jr. . The New York Times . New York City . 1984-09-09 . 2021-02-02.
5. News: . William Boyd . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Pittsburgh . 2006-07-05 . 2021-02-02.
6. Web site: Contributors' Notes, Volume 27, #4 . New England Review . 2021-02-02.
7. Web site: The Paris Review - Fall 2003 . 2009-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708100252/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/167 . 2009-07-08 . dead .
8. Web site: American Poetry Review records . Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania . 2021-02-02.
9. Bradley . George . 2003 . A Few of Her Secrets . The Paris Review . 165 . 2021-02-02.
10. Bradley . George . 1998 . The World Put Back Together . Southwest Review . 83 . 2 . 182–183 . 43471907 . 2021-02-02.
11. Web site: George Bradley-Frug Macabre . Open City Magazine & Books . 2021-02-02.
12. Book: George, Bradley . Boatwright . James . 1985 . Shenandoah: an anthology . Wainscott, NY . Pushcart . Expecting an angel . 0-916366-33-2.
13. Web site: The Magazine Book, Issue 2, April - June 1988 . Spazio Umano . 2021-02-02.
14. Web site: American Poetry Review records . The American Scholar . 2021-02-02.
15. Web site: Bradley, George . Raritan: A Quarterly Review . 2021-02-02.
16. Bradley . George . 2016 . Poetry in Review . 10.1111/yrev.13120 . The Yale Review . Wiley-Blackwell . 104 . 3 . 146–162.
17. Web site: The Yale Younger Poets Anthology . Yale University Press . 2021-02-02.
18. Web site: NEA Literature Fellowships . National Endowment for the Arts . 2021-02-02.
19. Web site: George Bradley . Poetry Foundation . 2021-02-02.
20. Davison . Peter . 1998 . review of The Yale Younger Poets Anthology . Atlantic Monthly . 103–112 . 281 . 6 . 2021-02-02.