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Roger Dickinson-Brown was an American poet, author and teacher,〔Poetry Pilot, New York, New York, April 1975, p. 9.〕〔Bonnie Eslinger, San Jose Mercury News, June 15, 2013〕 born in 1944, who wrote in English and French. After studying under Yvor Winters at Stanford University, he published and broadcast poems, criticism and reviews (Song, The Southern Review, World Order, WONO-FM) in the 1970s, 〔The Southern Review, Winter, 1978.〕 and taught in the Program in Writing Arts at the State University of New York at Oswego. Born Roger Brown, he added the hyphenated last name of his first wife to his own and took as his second wife the artist Louise Dickinson-Brown whose best known work is the illustration of ''A Book of Beasts'' by the poet Lewis Turco who directed the Program in which Roger taught at Oswego. He divorced his second wife and married a French woman with whom he lived in France until his suicide by drug overdose in April, 2015. He left a son by his first wife and several children by his third, all of the latter born in France. In 1976, Robert Hayden, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, wrote that Dickinson-Brown "is a gifted poet who has begun to attract favorable attention," and that "he has distinguished himself as a teacher of creative writing and modern poetry." 〔World Order, Summer 1975, p. 74.〕 The entire book-length series ''Jonathan: A Death Miscellany'' was broadcast over WONO-FM (New York) in April 1976. During that broadcast Dickinson-Brown argued that most poets write too much, and indicated that he wished to leave only a small number of poems at his death. At about the same time, he stopped publishing his work in literary reviews and journals, and more or less entirely withdrew from conventional publication. Dickinson-Brown, who abandoned university tenure at SUNY Oswego and spoke of former academic colleagues as devotees of an obscurantist cult, adapted his own writing to clear commentary on an “unpoetically” wide range of subjects. Here, for example, is his epitaph for the great economist Angus Maddison, 1926-2010 (the lines are actually carved on Maddison's tombstone): Friend or stranger, stop and shed a tear: Gentle Angus Maddison lies here. Joining the social sciences with art, He took human misery to heart And mixed time, space and math to set men free From want. Angus hated poverty. (This poem also appears on the frontispiece of ''World Economic Performance: Past, Present and Future'', D.S. Prasada and Bart Van Ark, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013.) Some of Dickinson-Brown’s usually short poems are written in experimental (mostly French-style syllabic) meters,〔The Southern Review, Autumn, 1977.〕 but most are classical in both form and subject. They are often written in the plain style and were evidently influenced by the epigrammatic tradition of Catullus, Martial (whom he translates) and J. V. Cunningham, including their social satire and sometimes ''risqué'' humor. The most frequent themes are loneliness, age, love, death, physics and religion. The French poems are all epigrams. ==Published works== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Dickinson-Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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