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Person Detail: D H Melhem
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| Full Name: D H Melhem | ||
| Biography: Author of five books of poetry, two critical works, one novel, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 50 published essays, and editor of three anthologies, D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Long Beach, California. Her Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987) was the first comprehensive study of the poet. Melhem received her Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center and was nominated for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women's Studies. Her Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews (1990) was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Study and won a 1991 American Book Award. Winner of numerous awards for her poetry, she has received wide acclaim for the elegy Rest in Love (reissued 1995) and Country: An Organic Poem (1998). Of her novel, Blight (1995), Cynthia Ozick wrote: An amazing and original parable . . . an indelible exemplum that will endure. Vice-president of the International Women's Writing Guild, she was a former board member of Pen & Brush and of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc.). She co-edited (with Leila Diab) A Different Path, the first RAWI anthology (2000); also in 2000, a chapbook, Poems for You. |
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| Author's Timeline: | ||
| 1998 |
(Unknown) County Country: An Organic Poem (Pub: Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN: 0-89304-223-4; 0-89304-222-6) Poetry. |
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| 1995 |
(Unknown) County Rest in Love (Pub: Confrontation Magazine Press. ISBN: 0-913057-22-3) Poetry. |
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| 2000 |
(Unknown) County Poems for You (Pub: P & Q Press. ISBN: 1-893068-09-9) Poetry. |
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| 1995 |
(Unknown) County Blight (Pub: Riverrun Press. ISBN: 0-7145-4274-1) Novel. |
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| 1987 |
(Unknown) County Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (Pub: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 0-8131-0180-8) Nonfiction. |
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| 1990 |
(Unknown) County Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews (Pub: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 0-8131-0807-1) Nonfiction. |
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| 2000 |
(Unknown) County A Different Path (Pub: Ridgeway Press. ISBN: 1-56439-109-4) Anthology co-edited with Leila Diab. |
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| 1926 |
Kings County D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 14, 1926. |
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| 2005 |
New York County New York Poems (Pub: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815608134) Poetry. |
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| 2003 |
(Unknown) County Conversation With A Stonemason (Pub: Ikon. ISBN: 9780945368076) Poetry. |
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| 2007 |
(Unknown) County Stigma & The Cave (Pub: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 9780815608820) Novel. |
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| 2013 |
(Unknown) County D. H. Melhem died at Edgewater Skilled Nursing in Long Beach, California, on June 15, 2013. |
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| 2013 |
Suffolk County D. H. Melhem was interred at Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York. |
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