Lynn Sukenick Explained

Lynn Sukenick
Birth Date:	11 September 1937
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Death Place:	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	Brandeis University City University of New York

Lynn Luria Sukenick (September 11, 1937, New York, New York – March 14, 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts)^[1] was an American poet. She is also credited with coining the terms "daughter centric", and "matrophobic".^[2]

Life

She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University. She received a doctorate in English from City University of New York.

She taught at San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Cruz,^[3] Cornell University, Cleveland State University, the New College of California.^[4]

She married Ronald Sukenick, but they divorced in 1984.^[5] He collaborated with her in his story "Roast Beef: A Slice of Life" in The Death of the Novel and Other Stories.

Her work appeared in Ironwood,^[6] Quarry List,^[7] Five Finders Review,^[8] California Quarterly,^[9]

She coined the term matrophobia, the fear of becoming one's mother, in her work on Doris Lessing.^{[10] [11]}

Awards

• 1977–1978 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship^[12]

Work

Poetry books

• Book: Water astonishing: poems . Ragnarok Press. 1974 .
• Book: Houdini. Capra Press. 1973. 978-0-912264-81-3 .
• Book: Problems & Characteristics. Serendipity Books. 1975 .
• Book: Houdini Houdini. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 1982 .
• Book: The Hue Everyone Living Knows: Poems. Small Press Distribution. 1993. 978-1-879342-05-7 .

Short stories

• Book: Danger wall may fall: short stories. Zoland Books. 1997. 978-0-944072-76-9.

Criticism

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=VwF8p4s_60QC&q=Lynn+Sukenick&pg=PA28. On Women and Fiction. The Authority of experience . Arlyn Diamond, Lee R. Edwards. University of Massachusetts Press. 1988. 978-0-87023-622-8 .
• Feeling and Reason in Doris Lessings's Fiction. Contemporary Literature. 14. 1973. 515–535 . 10.2307/1207470. 1207470. Sukenick. Lynn. 4.

Notes and References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBLN-5MV Social Security Death Index: Lynn L Sukenick
2. Book: Kruk, Laurie. Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story. 2016 . University of Ottawa Press . 978-0-7766-2325-2 . English.
3. Web site: Women's Literary Salons, 1975–1985. New York, Cerridwen, Paris, Los Angeles.
4. News: Memorial rite for L. Luria-Sukenick . The Boston Globe . June 2, 1995 .
5. News: Ronald Sukenick: US novelist building on the Beat generation. John. Calder. The Guardian. 22 September 2004 .
6. Ironwood . Cuddihy . Michael . 1986.
7. Quarry west . University Of California . Santa Cruz. College V . Porter College (University Of California . Santa Cruz) . 1978.
8. Five fingers review . 1984.
9. California quarterly (Davis) . University Of California . Davis . 1985-01-01.
10. Book: Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth. Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory . 157. Taylor & Francis. 1997. 978-0-8153-0824-9 .
11. Web site: "Motherhood and Daughterhood" by Adrienne Rich.
12. Web site: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship- List of Past Recipients.