Mcclatchy, J(oseph) D(onald)

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MCCLATCHY, J(oseph) D(onald)

MCCLATCHY, J(oseph) D(onald). American, b. 1945. Genres: Poetry, Songs/Lyrics and libretti. Career: Editor, Yale Review, 1991-; has also taught at Princeton University, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, NYC, and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Johns Hopkins University, 1999. Publications: Scenes from Another Life, 1981; Stars Principal, 1986; White Paper, 1989; The Rest of the Way, 1990; Ten Commandments, 1998; Twenty Questions, 1998. LIBRETTOS FOR OPERAS: A Question of Taste, 1989; Mario the Magician, 1994; Orpheus Decending, 1995; Emmeline, 1996. EDITOR: Anne Sexton: The Artist and Her Critics, 1978; Recitative: Prose by James Merrill, 1986; Poets on Painters, 1988; The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, 1990; Woman in White: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1991; The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, 1996. Address: 15 Grand St., Stonington, CT 06378, U.S.A.

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