Inverno a novel cynthia zarin
- •
How one acclaimed poet’s long, private letter became a short, stunning novel
On the Shelf
Inverno
By Cynthia Zarin
FSG: 144 pages, $25
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
Cynthia Zarin has been hiding in plain sight. Or maybe it’s more appropriate to say the culture hasn’t pigeonholed her. At 64, she’s had a career as gloriously peripatetic as any I’ve encountered: a longtime New Yorker staff writer; the author of five volumes of poetry, two books of nonfiction and several works for children; a Guggenheim fellow who has seen two of her poems staged as ballets; and for some time a poet in residence at Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she was given an office up a “very, very windy stairway” overlooking its vaulted Gothic Revival interior.
Now Zarin has made another exhilarating pivot, publishing her first novel. The spare and impressionistic “Inverno,” out this week, functions in a lot of ways like a poem. Opening in February “near the north ball fields in
- •
Cynthia Zarin Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Cynthia Zarin Biography
Cynthia Zarin is an American poet, and magazine editor. She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.
She has authored several books of poetry-The Watercourse, Fire Lyric, Of Lincoln, The Astronomical Hen and The Swordfish Tooth-and several books for children. She is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and a contributing editor for Gourmet.
The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and winner of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, she teaches at Yale and lives in New York City.
Books by this author
This bio was last updated on 11/11/2014. In a perfect world, we would like to keep all of BookBrowse's biographies up to date, but with many thousands of lives to keep track of it's simply impossible to do. So, if the date of this bio is not recent, you may wish to do an internet search for a more current source, such as the author'
- •
Cynthia Zarin
American journalist
Cynthia Zarin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 65–66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University Columbia University (MFA) |
| Occupations | |
| Spouses | Michael Seccareccia (m. 1988, divorced)Joseph Goddu (m. 1997, divorced) |
Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.
Life
She graduated from Harvard Universitymagna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.
She teaches at Yale University.[1] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,[2] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.[3] Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York-based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.[4] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Str
Copyright ©dewpant.pages.dev 2025