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DOUGLAS WORTH
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HOME DOUGLAS WORTH: AUTHOR Douglas Worth was born in 1940 and grew up in Pennsylvania, Florida, and India. He has been writing poetry since the seventh grade, attempting for half a century to express his sense of the miraculousness of existence and the rich weave of human joy and suffering, his growing concern with modern humanity's disrespect for Nature, and his deepening conviction of universal interconnectedness. He taught English at public and private schools in Manhattan and Newton, Massachusetts, from 1965 to 1990, after which he retired to devote himself to writing and playing jazz alto sax. Worth lives with his artist wife Patricia and their half-wild cat in Cambridge, Mass. Hailed by Denise Levertov, on the publication of his first book, as "one of the most gifted and accomplished of younger poets," Worth was compared, in his most recent volume to "good wine that excels with age," by Daniel Berrigan. Ranging in scope from the intimate personal, through the geo-political, to the cosmic, Douglas Worth's poetry has been published widely in periodicals and anthologies, and he has received a number of fellowships, grants and prizes, and been profiled in Who's Who in America, Contemporary Authors, and The International Who's Who of Poetry. Described by historian Howard Zinn as "a visionary dreamweaver of the future global tribe," Worth has been termed "an American poet who counts" by novelist Hugh Nissenson, who concludes that his "unique lyrical vernacular voice marks him simultaneously as a confessional--and yes, transcendental-poet, whose work I believe is destined to endure." In addition to his volumes of poetry, Worth is the author of a young-adult novella and an illustrated children's book. His published works are: Of Earth, William L. Bauhan, 1974 |
