May 2001

  
John M. Ridland
   

My First Villanelle

  
  
John Ridland was born in London and grew up in the Flintridge hills in Southern California. He attended Swarthmore College, UC Berkeley, and Claremont Graduate School, and spent two years in the U. S. Army in Puerto Rico. He has taught literature and writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1961, with visiting stints at the Universities of Colorado and Melbourne. From 1966-1972 he edited The Little Square Review. His latest titles are John the Valiant, a translation of a Hungarian folk-epic poem (Corvina Press, Budapest, 1999), Life with Unkie (Mille Grazie Press, Santa Barbara, 1999), a companion piece to his earlier Elegy for My Aunt, and (Un)Extinguished Lamp (Santa Barbara, 2000). He is preparing a volume of New and Selected Poems, 1956-2000.

   

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