A slant of light : reflections on Jack Wheatcroft / edited by Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balakian, Peter, 1951- editor.

Smith, Bruce, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheatcroft, John, 1925---History and criticism.

Wheatcroft, John.

Wheatcroft, John, 1925---Appreciation.

Wheatcroft, John, 1925-.

Bucknell University.

College teachers--Pennsylvania.

College teachers.

Art appreciation.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Latham, Maryland : Roman Littlefield, [2018]

Summary:

Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft's life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.

Contents:

Intro ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword

Jack Wheatcroft

Jack Wheatcroft, In Memoriam

"History Became the Words": Trans/Scribing Conscience in John Wheatcroft's Answering Fire

Collections of Stories, Years Later / John Ramsay

Remembering John Wheatcroft

Sundays

Dear Katherine

Remembering Jack

Memories of Jack Wheatcroft

Marginalia

Bucknell's Boy of Summer

Jack

Rhyming Forward and Back

Jack Wheatcroft and The Stadler Center for Poetry

Jack, Some Scenes

Jack Wheatcroft: Recreant at Lewisburg

Late Afternoon, Bucknell Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1611488745

9781611488746

OCLC:

1048934701