Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman is an American poet and professor of English.
Academic career
Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education. After an undergraduate education at the City College of New York, Feldman completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953. His first academic appointments were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004.Published works
- Works and Days, Little, Brown Book Group.
- The Pripet Marshes, Viking.
- Magic Papers and Other Poems, Harper & Row.
- Lost Originals Holf, Rinehart and Winston.
- Leaping Clear and Other Poems, Viking.
- New and Selected Poems, Viking.
- Teach Me, Dear Sister, Penguin Books.
- All of Us Here and Other Poems, Penguin Books.
- The Life and Letters, University of Chicago Press.
- Beautiful False Things: Poems, Grove Press.
- Collected Poems, 1954-2004, Shocken.
- Usable Truths: Aphorisms & Observations, Waywiser Press.
Awards and honors
He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for Works and Days and Other Poems. In 1994, Harold Bloom included New and Selected Poems in his list of books constituting the Western Canon.