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William Packard (September 2, 1933 – November 3, 2002) was an American poet, playwright, teacher, novelist, and was also founder and editor of the ''New York Quarterly'', a national poetry magazine.〔''William Packard, Author and Editor, Dies at 69''. ''New York Times''. November 16, 2002. ()〕〔''Poet founded The New York Quarterly; William Packard''. ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune''. November 18, 2002. ()〕〔Shivani, Anis. ''A Poetry Editor Reveals the Secrets of the Trade: Raymond Hammond on How to Fix the Current Poetry Paradigm''. ''Huffington Post''. 11 December 2011. ()〕 ==Life and career== Packard was born September 2, 1933, and was raised in New York. He was a graduate of Stanford University,〔(Stanford Alumni Website )〕 where he earned a degree in philosophy and studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters. Packard was a presence in the literary circles of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s — circles that included Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, and Kenneth Rexroth. Packard was most active, however, in New York City, where he lived and wrote for more than half his life. While in New York, Packard hosted the 92nd Street Y’s poetry reading series, was Vice President of the Poetry Society of America, was a member of the governing board of the Pirandello Society,〔(''The Village Voice''. 27 February 1969. Page 38 )〕 and was co-director of the Hofstra Writers Conference for seven years.〔Jarnot, Lisa. ''Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography'' University of California Press. 2012. Page 304 ISBN 978-0-520-23416-1〕 In 1957 he was awarded a Frost Fellowship and, in 1980, was honored with a reception at the White House for distinguished American poets.〔 Packard's literary career spanned nearly 50 years and resulted in the publication of six volumes of poetry, including ''To Peel an Apple'',〔Packard, William. ''To peel an apple''. Experiment Press. 1963 ASIN: B0007E6H38.〕 ''First Selected Poems'', ''Voices/I hear/voices'', and ''Collected Poems''. His novel, ''Saturday Night at San Marcos'',〔Packard, William. ''Saturday Night at San Marcos''. Iuniverse Inc. 2000. ISBN 978-1583489994〕 is a bawdy, irreverent send-up of the literary scene. It is written with “a sharp yet loving bite … Picture the pace of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' plus caricature worthy of Portnoy,” according to the ''New York Times''.〔O’Connor, Patricia T. ''New & Noteworthy''. ''New York Times''. Quoting Regina Weinreich in the ''New York Times Book Review'' in 1986. ()〕 His translation of Racine’s ''Phedre'', for which he was awarded the Outer Critic’s Circle Award, is the only English rendering to date to have maintained the original’s rhymed Alexandrine couplets. It was produced Off-Broadway with Beatrice Straight and Mildred Dunnock, and directed by Paul-Emile Deiber; a production which Stanley Kauffmann of the ''New York Times'' referred to as “the best performance in English of a classic French tragedy that I have seen.”.〔Webber, Bruce. ''Paul-Emile Deiber, Actor Who Became an Opera Director, Dies at 86''. ''New York Times''. 24 December 2011 ()〕 His plays include ''The Killer Thing'', directed by Otto Preminger,〔Hirsch, Foster. ''Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King''. ISBN 978-0375413735 Knopf 2007. ()〕 ''Sandra and the Janitor'', produced at the HB Playwrights Foundation, ''The Funeral'', ''The Marriage'', and ''War Play'', produced and directed by Gene Frankel. Three collections of Mr. Packard’s one-act plays, ''Psychopathology of Everyday Life'', ''Threesome'', and ''Behind the Eyes'', were recently produced in New York. Packard was the great-grandson of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody and wrote the non-fiction book ''Evangelism in America: From Tents to TV''.〔Packard, William. ''Evangelism in America: From Tents to TV''. Paragon House. 1999.〕 Beginning in 1965, when he inherited from Louise Bogan the poetry writing classes at New York University’s Washington Square Writing Center, Packard taught poetry and literature at NYU, Wagner, The New School, Cooper Union, The Bank Street Theatre, and Hofstra, as well as acting, and playwriting at the HB Studio in Manhattan. Among his books, he is the author of ''The Art of the Playwright'',〔Packard, William. ''The Art of the Playwright''. Thunder’s Mouth Press. 1997 ISBN 1-56025-117-4〕 ''The Art of Screenwriting'', ''The Poet’s Dictionary'',〔Packard, William. ''The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices''. Collins Reference. 1994. ISBN 978-0062720450.〕 ''The Art of Poetry Writing'', and ''The Poet’s Craft: Interviews from the New York Quarterly.''〔Packard, William. Editor. ''The Poet’s Craft: Interviews from the New York Quarterly''. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1974. ISBN 0-385 03496-2. ()〕 Packard was editor of the ''New York Quarterly (NYQ)'' for 33 years — from its founding 1969 until his death in 2002. He published 58 issues.〔Hammond, Raymond. editor. New York Quarterly. Number 59. 2003 ISSN 0028-7482〕 Poet and novelist James Dickey called Packard "one of the great editors of our time". Cited by Rolling Stone as "the most important poetry magazine in America," the ''New York Quarterly'' earned a reputation for excellence by publishing poems, and for its “exceptional in-depth interviews”〔Baer, William. Editor. ''Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets''. University Press of Mississippi. 2004. ISBN 1-57806-671-9. Page vii. ()〕 with the prominent poets W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Richard Eberhart, Stanley Kunitz, Anne Sexton, Charles Bukowski, and W.S. Merwin, among many others. In fact, NYQ has, in its thirty-year career, published virtually every important poet in the nation. But the magazine is equally acclaimed for supporting the work of lesser-known poets. The poet Galway Kinnell once said of the magazine, "The New York Quarterly serves an invaluable function — and that is finding and publishing wonderful talents — such as Franz Douskey, Antler, Pennant, Lifshin, Inez, Moriarty — who may not have the recognition that their work so richly deserves."〔(New York Quarterly )〕 Packard’s friend, the author Charles Bukowski, was often found in the pages of ''The New York Quarterly''. Bukowski contributed poems, correspondence, and in 1985 he was the subject of the magazine’s “craft interview”.〔Packard, William, editor. ''The New York Quarterly''. Number 48. 1985.〕 Packard appears in the film, ''Bukowski, Born into This''.〔(IMDB )〕 The ''New York Quarterly'' temporarily suspended publication when Packard suffered a stroke, but returned to print shortly before his death.〔Staff report (November 16, 2002). (William Packard, 69, Author and Editor. ) ''New York Times''〕 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「William Packard (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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