Brad Leithauser

(1953-    )

Brad Leithauser was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. His first book of poetry appeared the year he graduated from law school. For three years he was a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan, and subsequently lived in Italy, England, Iceland and France. Leithauser is a novelist, poet, and English professor. He is currently Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts with his wife, Mary Jo Salter, also a poet.

Mount Holyoke Faculty Bio

Faculty Profile

Brad Leithauser
Wikipedia

Writings in the New York Times

Audio Interview with Brad Leithauser

Poem

The Life-Giving

Poetry

Brad Leithauser, Lettered Creatures (Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R Godine Pub, 2004)

____________, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (New York: Knopf, 2002)

____________, The Odd Last Thing She Did: Poems (New York: Knopf, 1998)

____________, The Mail From Anywhere: Poems (New York: Knopf, 1990)

____________, Between Leaps: Poems 1972-1985 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

____________, Cats of the Temple: Poems (New York: Knopf, 1986)

____________, A Seaside Mountain: Eight Poems from Japan ([New York]: Sarabande Press, Heritage Printers, 1985)(eight wood engravings designed and engraved by Mark Leithauser)

____________, Hundreds of Fireflies: Poems (New York: Knopf, 1982)

Novels

Brad Leithauser, Equal Distance (New York: Knopf, 1985)

____________, Hence (New York: Knopf, 1989)

____________, Seaward (New York: Knopf, 1993)

____________, The Friends of Freeland (New York: Knopf, 1997)

____________, A Few Corrections (New York: Knopf, 2001)

____________, The Art Student's War (New York: Knopf, 2009)

Writings

Brad Leithauser, Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)

Randall Jarrell, No Other Book: Selected Essays (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995)(Brad Leithauser intro.)

Brad Leithauser (ed.), The Norton Book of Ghost Stories (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994)

Poetry & Writings: Magazines

A Footnote for Housman
New Criterion

Capturer of Hearts
New York Times — review of Robert Coover's John's Wife

Brad Leithauser, "Mock Argument," 48 (9) New York Review of Books 12 (May 31, 2001)

____________, "Cat and Mustang: A Still Life," 45 (15) New York Review of Books 14 (October 8, 1998)

____________, "A Honeymoon Conception (1952)," 74 New Yorker 98 (September 14, 1998)

____________, "A False Spring," 74 New Yorker 42 (March 9, 1998)

____________, "Small Waterfall: A Birthday Poem," 73 New Yorker 58 (August 18, 1997)

____________, "A Flight Up the Coast," 279 Atlantic Monthly 68 (March, 1997)

____________, "Plus the Fact of You," 71 New Yorker 50-1 (August 14, 1995)

____________, "After the Detonation of the Moon," 42 New York Review of Books 29 (February 16, 1995)

____________, "Red Leather Jacket," 272 Atlantic 74 (August 1993)

____________, "Cattails: A Marsh in March," 69 New Yorker 78 (March 22, 1993)

____________, "Glow," 59 American Scholar 528-30 (1990)

____________, "North of Night," 202 New Republic 34 (April 23, 1990)

____________, "Through Two Windows," 66 New Yorker 42 (March 19, 1990)

____________, "Reykjavik Winter Couplets," 65 New Yorker 38 (January 22, 1990)

____________, "Rain & Snow," 65 New Yorker 146 (November 13, 1989)

____________, "Your Natural History," 264 Atlantic 78 (November, 1989)

____________, "The Mail From Anywhere," 64 New Yorker 30-1 (July 25, 1988)

____________, "Old Bachelor Brother," 262 Atlantic 71 (July, 1988)

____________, "Signalled," 35 New York Review of Books 12 (June 16, 1988)

____________, "A Worded Welcome," 64 New Yorker 28 (March 28, 1988)

____________, "On the Lee Side," 194 New Republic 38 (January 27, 1986)

____________, "Rabbits," 256 Atlantic 90 (December, 1985)

____________, "A Stuffed Tortoise," 61 New Yorker 50 (November 18, 1985)

____________, "In a Bonsai Nursery," 61 New Yorker 34 (October 28, 1985)

____________, "Seahorses," 32 New York Review of Books 23 (June 13, 1985)

____________, "Recollections of an Irish Daybreak," 61 New Yorker 46 (May 20, 1985)

____________, "In a Japanese Moss Garden," 255 Atlantic 86-7 (May 1985)

____________, "An Actor Plays a Trumpet," 32 New York Review of Books 23 (February 28, 1985)

____________, "Three Poems from Japan," 60 New Yorker 36-7 (July 16, 1984)

Novels

Brad Liethauser, A Few Corrections: A Novel (New York: A.A. Knopf, 2001)

____________, The Friends of Freeland: A Novel (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997)

____________, Seward (New York: Knopf, 1993)

____________, Hence: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 1989)

____________, Equal Distance: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 1985)

Bibliography: Articles

Michael Stanford, The Cyclopean Eye, The Courtly Game, Admissions Against Interest: Five Modern American Lawyer Poets, 30 Legal Studies Forum 9 (2006) [online text]