David Ignatow

2. David was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 7, 1914. He spent most of his life in New York City area. He died at the age of 83 on November 17, 1997.

3. David married the artist Rose Graubart and together they had a son David and a daughter Yaedi. David�s son was a schizophrenic and never recovered. Ignatow's parents were immigrants. His mother, Yetta Reinbach, from Austria-Hungary, was the illiterate daughter of a forest warden His father was born a Jew in the Czarist Ukraine

4. David graduated from high school in 1932 and did not go on for further studies. He was employed as a writer in research by the Federal Government. Ignatow was office manager at his father's bookbindery before establishing his literary career.

5. In his academic and literary career, Ignatow was Instructor at the New School for Social Research in New York He participated in mass demonstrations and read at political poetry readings. He also supported the Berkeley free speech movement and the Afro-American struggle for equality.

6. The first book that Ignatow published was Poems. Later he published The Gentle Weight Lifter, Say Pardon, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

7. Ignatow has been given two Guggenheim Fellowships. He has received the Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society's Shelley Memorial Award. He also has been given the Bollingen Prize

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