BIOGRAPHIES

Ignatow, David. “The Beginning.” In American Poets in 1976, pp. 130-42. Edited by William Heyen. Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.

Chronicles Ignatow's struggles and desire to become a poet despite family circumstances.

———. “Living with Change.” In Literature & the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature, pp. 193-208. Edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1981.

Recounts incidents in Ignatow's life pertaining to race, teaching, and writing.

Lewis, Joel. “Souvenirs from a Zeitgeist.” American Book Review 12, No. 4 (September, 1990): 14.

A review of Ignatow's memoirs The One in the Many.

CRITICISM

Chawla, Louise. “Reconciliation: David Ignatow.” In In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory, pp. 85-103. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Traces Ignatow's changing views on nature in his writing.

Duemer, Joseph. “To Make the Visible World Your Conscience.” New England Review 14, No. 4 (Fall 1992): 268-86.

Compares Adrienne Rich's Time's Power and Ignatow's Shadowing the Ground.

Ignatow, David with Gerald Malanga. “David Ignatow: The Art of Poetry XIII.” Paris Review 21 (Fall, 1979): 55-99.

In an interview, Ignatow discusses such topics as the influences on his writing, the nature of fame and isolation, and his opinions of other contemporary poets.

———. “Selections from ‘The Notebooks: 1983-1986’.” Ohio Review 38 (1987): 25-30.

Ignatow describes his writing process and style.

———. With Lynn Emanuel and Anthony Petrosky. “It's Like Having Something in the Bank: An Interview with David Ignatow.” American Poetry. 3, No. 2 (Winter, 1986): 64-85.

In an interview, Ignatow discusses his views on the structure of Whisper to the Earth, changes in political poetry, and his writings about suicide.

Jarrell, Randall. Review of The Gentle Weight Lifter. The Yale Review 48 (1955): 123-24.

Criticizes Ignatow's work as being too derivative of William Carlos Williams.

Kelen, Leslie. “The Only Way to Live: An Interview with David Ignatow.” Black Warrior Review 19, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 110-26.

Interview in which Ignatow discusses his changing writing style and influences on his work.

Lazer, Hank, ed. “Panel Discussion.” In What Is a Poet?: Essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, pp. 185-225. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987.

Panel discussion in which Ignatow questions the nature of poetry and offers insight on literary criticism.

Pacernick, David. “David Ignatow: Prophet of Darkness and Nothingness.” In Meaningful Differences: The Poetry and Prose of David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Terris, pp. 59-78. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Traces the strong influence of Judaism in Ignatow's poetry.

Rosenberg, Harold. “Six American Poets.” Comment 32, No. 4 (October, 1961): 349-53.

In a review of Rescue the Dead, Rosenberg considers the influence of being Jewish on six poets, including Ignatow.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. “Postmodernist Ignatow.” In Meaningful Differences: The Poetry and Prose of David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Terris, pp. 103-15. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Analyzes Ignatow's unique voice, identifying him as a postmodernist and arguing that his straightforward style should not be equated with simplicity.

Zweig, Paul. “David Ignatow.” American Poetry Review 5, No. 1 (January, 1976): 29-30.

In a review of Facing the Tree and Selected Poems, Zweig characterizes Ignatow as a major writer of great importance.

Additional coverage of Ignatow's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors First Revision, Vols. 9, 10, 11, 12; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 31, 57, 162; Contemporary Literature Criticism, Vols. 4, 7, 14, 40; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 5.