Collected Poems

by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington (Editor), Jo LeCoeur (Introduction)

Overview

During his lifetime, John William Corrington (1932 - 1988) published four books of poetry, but many of his poems that appeared in "little magazines" and journals were never collected. The Collected Poems of John William Corrington now makes all of Corrington's published poems and a number of completed but previously unpublished poems available to readers. The poems appear in roughly chronological order with a bibliography that acknowledges prior publications.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015981292
Publisher:	Joyce H. Corrington
Publication date:	12/30/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	262 KB

About the Author

John William Corrington was born in 1932 and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana where he attended Jesuit High School (from which he was expelled in 1950 for having “the wrong attitude”). He received a B.A. from Centenary College (1956), an M.A. from Rice University (1959), and a D.Phil. from the University of Sussex (1965). He served on the English faculty at Louisiana State University and, at the time The Upper Hand was first published (1967), was Chairman of the English Department at Loyola University in New Orleans. For the next two decades, Corrington lived in New Orleans with his wife Joyce and four children: Shelley Elaine, John Wesley, Robert Edward Corrington and Thomas Jonathan Jackson. During that time he left academia and took a J.D. at Tulane University School of Law. In 1978 he left the practice of law, formed a writing team with his wife, and scripted six feature movies and numerous television episodes. This writing career led the Corringtons to move to the West Coast in 1986. In 1988, John William Corrington suffered a heart attack at his home in Malibu and died at the age of 56.

Corrington began his writing career in the 1960s as a poet. During that decade he published innumerable poems in the “little magazines” of the time and in academic literary quarterlies, ranging from The Outsider to Kenyon Review. Early on his poetry was influenced by Eliot and Auden, but soon it reflected the anti-academic style of the “beat” poets. Corrington was also impressed by the works of Charles Bukowski, with whom he carried on a long correspondence. After his first novel, And Wait for the Night, was published in 1969, Corrington largely turned his focus to writing novels and short stories and later scripts for film and television, but he still occasionally published poetry and some of his best work was done shortly before his death.