Edward Dickinson Blodgett (26 February 1935) is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet, literary critic, and translator who won the Governor General's Award

Governor General's Award

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 for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

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In 1999, Jacques Brault

Jacques Brault

Jacques Brault is a French Canadian poet and translator who currently lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris...

 won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for 'Transfiguration (1998) , a translation of Blodgett's poetry.

On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate

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 for the City of Edmonton

Edmonton

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, Alberta

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Poetry

• Take away the names (1975)
• Sounding (1977)
• Beast Gate (1980)
• Arché/Elegies (1983)
• Musical Offering (1986)
• Da Capo (1990)
• Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
• Apostrophes II: through you I (1998)
• Transfiguration (1998) translation by Jacques Brault
• Apostrophes III: Alone Upon the Earth (1999)
• Apostrophes IV: speaking you is holiness (2000)
• Ark of Koans (2003)
• Apostrophes V: never born except within the other (2003)
• Apostrophes VI: open the grass (2004)
• Elegy (2005)
• In the heart of the wood (2005)
• Practices of eternity (2005)

Literary Criticism and Translations

• Configuration. Essays in the Canadian Literatures (1982)
• D. G. Jones and his Works (1984)
• The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana (1987) with Roy Arthur Swanson
• Alice Munro (1988)
• Romance of Flamenca (1995)
• Five Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada (2005)

External links

• 1996 Governor General's Literary Award Winner: E. D. Blodgett