Person Detail: Harriet Zinnes

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Full Name: Harriet Zinnes
Biography: (1919-2019) Poet. Harriet Zinnes was born in Massachusetts and lived in New York City. She was professor emerita of English of Queens College of the CUNY, the author of eight books (which include four chapbooks). She was a contributing editor of The Denver Quarterly and of The Hollins Critic and a contributing writer of the New York Arts Magazine. Among her books are Plunge: Poems (County Wicklow, Ireland: Wild Honey Press, 2001); My, Haven't The Flowers Been (Poems) (Magic Circle Press, l995); The Radiant Absurdity Of Desire (short stories) (Avisson Press, 1998); Lover (short stories), Coffee House Press, l988; Blood And Feathers (translations of the French poet Jacques Prevert), 1993; and Ezra Pound And The Visual Arts (New Directions, l980).
Author's Timeline:
1919		(Unknown) County Harriet Zinnes was born Victoria Harriet Fich in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, on April 18, 1919.
2001		(Unknown) County Plunge: Poems (Pub: County Wicklow, Ireland: Wild Honey Press. ISBN: ) Poetry.
1995		(Unknown) County My, Haven't The Flowers Been? (Pub: Magic Circle Press ISBN: 0913660264 ISBN-13: 978-0913660263) Poetry.
1998		(Unknown) County The Radiant Absurdity Of Desire (Pub: Avisson Press Inc. ISBN: 1888105283 ISBN-13: 978-1888105285) Short stories.
1988		(Unknown) County Lover (Pub: Coffee House Press. ISBN: 0918273463 ISBN-13: 978-0918273468) Short stories.
1993		(Unknown) County Blood And Feathers (Pub: Moyer Bell Ltd ISBN: ) Translations of the French poet Jacques Prevert.
1980		(Unknown) County Ezra Pound And The Visual Arts (Pub: New Directions ISBN: 0811207722 ISBN-13: 978-0811207720) Criticism.
2019		Queens County Harriet Zinnes was Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York.
2019		New York County Harriet Zinnes lived in New York City.
1964		(Unknown) County Waiting And Other Poems (Pub: Goosetree Press. ISBN: ) Poetry.
1966		(Unknown) County An Eye For An Eye (Pub: Folder Editions ISBN: ) Poetry.
1976		(Unknown) County I Wanted To See Something Flying (Pub: Folder Editions ISBN: 0913152153 ISBN-13: 978-0913152157) Poetry.
1978		(Unknown) County Entroprisms (Pub: Gallimaufry ISBN: 0916300110 ISBN-13: 978-0916300111) Poetry.
1981		(Unknown) County Book Of Ten (Pub: Bellevue Press ISBN: ) Poetry.
1992		(Unknown) County Book Of Twenty (Pub: Bellevue Press. ISBN: )
2002		(Unknown) County Listening To The Rain (Pub: Wild Honey Press. ISBN: )
2006		(Unknown) County I Am Not A River (Pub: Moyer Bell. ISBN: )
2005		(Unknown) County Whither Nonstopping (Pub: Marsh Hawk Press ISBN: 0975919768 ISBN-13: 978-0975919767) Poetry.
2002		(Unknown) County Drawing On The Wall (Pub: Marsh Hawk Press ISBN: 0971333270 ISBN-13: 978-0971333277) Poetry.
2014		(Unknown) County New and Selected Poems (Pub: Marsh Hawk Press ISBN: 0988235641 ISBN-13: 978-0988235649) Poetry.
2012		(Unknown) County Weather Is Whether (Pub: Marsh Hawk Press ISBN: 0984635343 ISBN-13: 978-0984635344) Poetry.
2009		(Unknown) County Light Light or the Curvature of the Earth (Pub: Marsh Hawk Press ISBN: 0979241693 ISBN-13: 978-0979241697) Poetry.
2019		(Unknown) County Harriet Zinnes died at her home in New York City on November 30, 2019.
1939		New York County Ms. Zinnes received a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in Manhattan, New York, in 1939.
1944		Kings County Ms. Zinnes received her master’s degree from Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York) in 1944.
1953		New York County Ms. Zinnes received her Ph.D. in English from New York University in 1953.

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