Peter Wild Explained

Birth Name:Peter T. Wild
Birth Date:25 April 1940
Birth Place:Northampton, Massachusetts, US
Death Place:Tucson, Arizona, US
Alma Mater:University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.)
Period:1969–2009
Genre:poetry, American history
Subject:American Southwest
Notableworks:Cochise (1973)
Spouse:Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?)
Awards:Writer's Digest prize, 1964
Ark River Review prize, 1972
nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973

Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.[1] Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.[2] Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.[3] [4] He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.[5] [6] His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise,[7] was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[8]

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  1. Book: Butscher, Edward . Peter Wild . 1992 . Boise State University (Western Writers Series #106) . Boise, ID . 978-0884301059 . 53 . 26252302.
  2. http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/2009/03/11/peter-t-wild-professor-poet "Peter T. Wild, professor, poet".
  3. Freed, Walter; Greiner, Donald J. (ed.) (1980). "Peter Wild". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 5, American Poets since World War II, First Series Part 2: L–Z . Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. pp. 390 ff. . ; also available from BookRags at Dictionary of Literary Biography on Peter Wild
  4. [Diane Wakoski|Wakoski, Diane]
  5. Web site: In Memoriam: Peter Wild 1940–2009. University of Arizona Poetry Center. October 28, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029213059/http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/exhibits/peter_wild.shtml. October 29, 2013.
  6. He became the leading authority on John Charles Van Dyke and the high desert. University of Arizona, University Libraries: Papers of Peter Wild Regarding Research on John C. Van Dyke
  7. Web site: Cochise by Peter Wild. Kirkus Reviews.
  8. Web site: University of Nevada Press: About Peter Wild . 2013-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143137/http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Browse/Authors/Wild,%20Peter%20/W;;1330?2 . 2014-07-14 . dead .
  9. Reviewed at: Web site: The Cloning by Peter Wild. Kirkus Reviews.
  10. Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.
  11. Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Clarence E. Dutton, John G. Bourke, John C. Van Dyke, D. H. Lawrence, J. Frank Dobie, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Peter Reyner Banham. Edited with Dean Saxton and Lucille Saxton
  12. Cofone, Albin J. (March 22, 1994). "The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". The American Indian Quarterly. University of Nebraska Press.
  13. Reviewed in: "The New Desert Reader." (Brief article)(Book review). Internet Bookwatch. Midwest Book Review. 2006. and "The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2006.
  14. Reviewed by: Ingham, Zita (March 22, 1995). "The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931". Nineteenth-Century Prose.
  15. Reviewed in: "'The grumbling gods; a Palm Springs reader'". (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2007.
  16. A biography of South, who wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) in Desert Magazine about his primitive life on the desert.
  17. Reviewed in: "The Secret Life of John C Van Dyke: Selected Letters." Virginia Quarterly Review January 1, 1998.
  18. Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave". The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive.

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