Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.[1]: 5 Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.[2] Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.[3][4] He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.[5][6] His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise,[7] was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[8]
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Born | Peter T. Wild April 25, 1940 Northampton, Massachusetts, US |
Died | February 23, 2009 Tucson, Arizona, US | (aged 68)
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Alma mater | University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.) |
Period | 1969–2009 |
Genre | poetry, American history |
Subject | American Southwest |
Notable works | Cochise (1973) |
Notable awards | Writer's Digest prize, 1964 Ark River Review prize, 1972 nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973 |
Spouse | Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?) |
Bibliography
- Poetry
- Sonnets. San Francisco: Cranium Press. 1967. p. 24.
- The Afternoon in Dismay. Cincinnati, OH: Art Association of Cincinnati. 1968. p. 87. OCLC 678909.
- Wild's Magical Book of Cranial Effusions. New York: The Little Press & New Rivers Press. 1971. ISBN 091228417X.
- Peligros. Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House. 1971. ISBN 0878860088.
- Cochise. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1973. p. 107. ISBN 978-0385057929. OCLC 707537.
- New and Selected Poems. (with Matthews, William (introduction); Eddy, Deborah (illustrations)). New York: New Rivers Press (distributor: Serendipity Books). 1973. p. 175. ISBN 978-0912284408.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) OCLC 749520, 806553940 (print and on-line) - The Cloning. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1974. pp. 103. ISBN 978-0385075916. OCLC 934541, 581527653, 297449896 (print and on-line)[9]
- Chichuahua. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1976. ISBN 0385114524.
- Wilderness. Hannah Hinchman (illustrations). Kensington, CA: New Rivers Press. 1980. ISBN 0898230144.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Jeanne D'Arc. Memphis, TN: Raccoon Books, St. Luke's Press. 1980. ISBN 0918518121.
- New Poetry of the American West. Durango, CO: Logbridge-Rhodes. 1982. pp. 104. ISBN 978-0937406199. OCLC 8589531, 655452420, 610178960 (Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line)[10]
- The Light on Little Mormon Lake. Point Reyes Station: Floating Island Publications. 1984. ISBN 0912449101.
- University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City (as editor)
- Wild, Peter (1991). The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. University of Utah Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0874803662. OCLC 22491262.[11][12]
- Republished as: Wild, Peter (2006). The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. University of Utah Press. pp. 324. ISBN 978-0874808711. OCLC 266084402.[13]
- Dyke, John Charles Van (1993). The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931. University of Utah Press. pp. 324. ISBN 0874803926. OCLC 28025404.[14]
- Into the Wilderness Dream: Explorations Narratives of the American West, 1500–1805. with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.). 1994. p. 416. ISBN 0874804434. OCLC 29221605.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805–1850. with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.). University of Utah Press. 1997. p. 348. ISBN 978-0874805390.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) OCLC 36726740, 44964200 (print and on-line) - Wild, Peter (2007). The Grumbling Gods: a Palm Springs Reader. University of Utah Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0874808995. OCLC 122974473, 608203796, 608020250 (print and on-line)[15]
- Wild, Peter (1991). The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions. University of Utah Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0874803662. OCLC 22491262.[11][12]
- Boise State University Western Writers Series (BSUWWS #) – Boise, Idaho
- Alberto Ríos (#131). 1998. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301301. OCLC 40252765, 246369356
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (#101). 1991. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301004. OCLC 24515951, 656314379 (print and on-line)
- Ann Zwinger (#111). 1993. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301103. OCLC 28516925
- Barry Lopez (#94). 1984. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884300380. OCLC 10984800
- Clarence King (#48). 1981. pp. 46. ISBN 978-0884300724. OCLC 7628120
- Desert Literature: The Early Period (#146). 2001. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884301455. OCLC 46683491
- Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle (#138). 1999. pp. 53. ISBN 978-0884301370. OCLC 42076940
- Desert Literature: The Modern Period (#144). 2000. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884301431. OCLC 44641313
- Enos Mills (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. ISBN 978-0884300601. OCLC 6006498
- George Wharton James (#93). 1990. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300922. OCLC 22357424, 754890912
- J. Ross Browne (#157). 2003. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884301578. OCLC 50722235
- James Welch (#57). 1983. pp. 49. ISBN 978-0884300311. OCLC 10086364
- John C. Van Dyke: The Desert (#82). 1988. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300816. OCLC 18596618
- John Haines (#68). 1985. pp. 51. ISBN 978-0884300427. OCLC 12672075
- John Nichols (#75). 1986. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0884300496. OCLC 14712741
- Theodore Strong Van Dyke (#121). 1995. pp. 54. ISBN 978-0884301202. OCLC 33054151
- The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California
- Desert Magazine: The Henderson Years. 2004. p. 112. OCLC 56193617.
- J. Smeaton Chase. 2005. p. 211. OCLC 62232191.
- Marshal South, of Yaquitepec. 2005. p. 157. OCLC 58796769.[16]
- News from Palm Springs: The Letters of Carl Eytel, Edmund C. Jaeger, J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Francis Saunders, and Others of the Creative Brotherhood and Its Background. Vol. I and II. 2007. OCLC 163456618.
- Tipping the Dream: A Brief History of Palm Springs. 2007. p. 228. OCLC 152590848.
- William Pester: The Hermit of Palm Springs. 2008. p. 161. OCLC 234084689.
- Other publishers:
- Pioneer Conservations of Western America. Abbey, Edward (introduction). Missoula, MN: Mountain Press Pub. Co. 1979. pp. 247. ISBN 978-0878421077.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) OCLC 4114529, 752883606 (print and on-line) - The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke: Selected Letters. Western Literature Series. Teague, David W. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 1997. p. 165. ISBN 978-0874172942.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) OCLC 35928275, 605037003 (print and on-line)[17] - Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. ISBN 978-0801856259. OCLC 36178998, 605563047, 658057160 (print and on-line)[18]
- The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. p. 219. ISBN 978-0292791299. OCLC 40762502, 649978425 (print and on-line)
- Different Travellers, Different Eyes: Artists' Narratives of the American West, 1820–1920. edited with Barclay, Donald A. and Maquire, James H. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University. 2001. p. 270. ISBN 978-0875652429. OCLC 46858598.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Paradise of Desire: Eleven Palm Springs Novels. Tucson, AZ: Estate of Peter Wild. 2011. p. 281. OCLC 748584112.
- Heiress of Doom: Lois Kellogg of Palm Springs. Tucson, AZ: Estate of Peter Wild. 2011. p. 449. OCLC 748583736.
- Pioneer Conservations of Western America. Abbey, Edward (introduction). Missoula, MN: Mountain Press Pub. Co. 1979. pp. 247. ISBN 978-0878421077.
Notes
- Peters, Robert (October–November 1974). "Mud Men Mud Women". Margins. Vol. 14. pp. 57 ff.
- Republished in Robert Peters (1979). The Great American Poetry Bake-off. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 274. ISBN 978-0810812314. OCLC 5101106, 643676039 (print and on-line)
- Seavey, Ormond (Spring 1975). "Peter Wild: An Introduction". New York: Little Magazine. Vol. 9, pp. 4–10. (Available in the Little Magazine archive, 1965–1988, at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC): University of Texas at Austin, OCLC 78144730.)
External links
- University of Arizona Archives: Papers of Peter Wild 1989–2004 – an index of Wild's research regarding John C. Van Dyke, OCLC 57378322
- Harrell Clark, LaVerne. "Portraits of Poets – Peter Wild 1975". Arizona Memory Project. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Poetry Center.
- Wild, Peter (n.d.). "Readings: VOCA (1970, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1993)" (Audio). University of Arizona Poetry Center. Tucson, AZ.
- Wild, Peter (July 1972). "Poem; The Buffalo". Poetry Magazine. Poetry Foundation. pp. 201–203.
- Wild, Peter; Moon, Germaine. "Correspondence" (Mojave Desert Archives). Online Archive of California. Essex, CA: California Digital Library.
Collection Number: AR.2003.002
- "Wild, Peter". Encyclopedia.com.