Lynda Hull

'''Lynda Hull''' (December 5, 1954 – March 29, 1994) was an American [[poet]]. She had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994. A third, ''The Only World'' (Harper Perennial, 1995), was published posthumously by her husband, the poet [[David Wojahn]], and was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award.[http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/National+Book+Critics+Circle+Award+finalist LibraryThing: Common Knowledge › Book awards › National Book Critics Circle Award finalist] ''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull'' ([[Graywolf Press]]), was published in 2006.

'''Lynda Hull''' (December 5, 1954 – March 29, 1994) was an American [[poet]]. She had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994. A third, ''The Only World'' (Harper Perennial, 1995), was published posthumously by her husband, the poet [[David Wojahn]], and was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award.[http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/National+Book+Critics+Circle+Award+finalist LibraryThing: Common Knowledge › Book awards › National Book Critics Circle Award finalist] ''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull'' ([[Graywolf Press]]), was published in 2006.

Hull was the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, and received four Pushcart Prizes.[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n1/poetry/hull_l/index.htm ''Blackbird: Online Journal of Literature and the Arts'' > Archive: Lynda Hull Bio] Her poems were published widely in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker,''[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1985/04/01/1985_04_01_044_TNY_CARDS_000340951 ''The New Yorker'' Archives > ''Jackson Hotel'' by Lynda Hull > April 1, 1985] ''AGNI,''[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-hull.html ''AGNI Online'' > ''Visiting Hour'' > By Lynda Hull] ''Colorado Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares,''{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=734|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}} and ''Poetry.''[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=25663 Poetry Foundation > ''Chinese New Year'' > By Lynda Hull]

Hull was the recipient of fellowships from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] and the Illinois Arts Council, and received four Pushcart Prizes.[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n1/poetry/hull_l/index.htm ''Blackbird: Online Journal of Literature and the Arts'' > Archive: Lynda Hull Bio] Her poems were published widely in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker,''[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1985/04/01/1985_04_01_044_TNY_CARDS_000340951 ''The New Yorker'' Archives > ''Jackson Hotel'' by Lynda Hull > April 1, 1985] ''AGNI,''[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-hull.html ''AGNI Online'' > ''Visiting Hour'' > By Lynda Hull] ''Colorado Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares,''{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=734|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}} and ''Poetry.''[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=25663 Poetry Foundation > ''Chinese New Year'' > By Lynda Hull]

Hull was born and grew up in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. At the age of 16 she won a scholarship to [[Princeton University]], but ran away from home. During the next ten years she struggled with heroin addiction on and off and lived in many places including various [[Chinatown]]s following a marriage to an immigrant from [[Shanghai]].{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55597-457-2|title=Fiction Book Review: Collected Poems by Lynda Hull, Author, Yusef Komunyakaa, Introduction by . Graywolf $15 (233p) ISBN 978-1-55597-457-2}}''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull,'' pp 227 – 229 In the early 1980s Hull started studying at the [[University of Arkansas at Little Rock]] and earned her B.A., and then her M.A. from [[Johns Hopkins University]]. She also reconnected with her family during this time and met the poet [[David Wojahn]], whom she married in 1984.[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/726 The Academy of American Poets Biographical Entry]

Hull was born and grew up in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. At the age of 16 she won a scholarship to [[Princeton University]], but ran away from home. During the next ten years she struggled with heroin addiction on and off and lived in many places including various [[Chinatown]]s following a marriage to an immigrant from [[Shanghai]].{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55597-457-2|title=Fiction Book Review: Collected Poems by Lynda Hull, Author, Yusef Komunyakaa, Introduction by . Graywolf $15 (233p) ISBN 978-1-55597-457-2}}''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull,'' pp 227 – 229 In the early 1980s Hull started studying at the [[University of Arkansas at Little Rock]] and earned her B.A., and then her M.A. from [[Johns Hopkins University]]. She also reconnected with her family during this time and met the poet [[David Wojahn]], whom she married in 1984.[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/726 The Academy of American Poets Biographical Entry]

==Literary influences and praise==

==Literary influences and praise==

In his review of her ''Collected Poems,'' Craig Morgan Teicher described Hull's poetry as, "lush, intensely lyrical evocations of the underbelly of American urban life, driven by a sense of inevitable loss and degradation but also by a powerful attachment to momentary beauty."[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200703/?read=review_hull ''The Believer'' > March 2007 > Craig Morgan Teicher: ''A Review of Collected Poems By Lynda Hull''] In a 2008 interview with ''Gulf Coast,'' [[David Wojahn]] said of her study and work, "She steeped herself in the Romantics, especially Keats and Shelley, and she knew Hart Crane almost by heart. I'm still in awe of that acuity, and of how she used it to do honor to a broken world, post-apocalyptic, filled with ruins and ruined lives. And she gave such dignity to that landscape and those lives. She really did have an incredible lyric gift, one that no other poet of my generation possessed."[http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&s=934 ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' > ''How Do You Bottle the Lightning? Anna Journey sits down with David Wojahn''] Poet [[David St. John]] wrote that "Of all the poets of my generation, Lynda Hull remains the most heartbreaking, merciful, and consoling."[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060951125 Amazon.com > ''The Only World'' > Lynda Hull]

In his review of her ''Collected Poems,'' Craig Morgan Teicher described Hull's poetry as, "lush, intensely lyrical evocations of the underbelly of American urban life, driven by a sense of inevitable loss and degradation but also by a powerful attachment to momentary beauty."[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200703/?read=review_hull ''The Believer'' > March 2007 > Craig Morgan Teicher: ''A Review of Collected Poems By Lynda Hull''] In a 2008 interview with ''Gulf Coast,'' [[David Wojahn]] said of her study and work, "She steeped herself in the Romantics, especially Keats and Shelley, and she knew [[Hart Crane]] almost by heart. I'm still in awe of that acuity, and of how she used it to do honor to a broken world, post-apocalyptic, filled with ruins and ruined lives. And she gave such dignity to that landscape and those lives. She really did have an incredible lyric gift, one that no other poet of my generation possessed."[http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&s=934 ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' > ''How Do You Bottle the Lightning? Anna Journey sits down with David Wojahn''] Poet [[David St. John]] wrote that "Of all the poets of my generation, Lynda Hull remains the most heartbreaking, merciful, and consoling."[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060951125 Amazon.com > ''The Only World'' > Lynda Hull]

==Awards and honors==

==Awards and honors==

* ''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull'' ([[Graywolf Press]], 2006)

* ''Collected Poems By Lynda Hull'' ([[Graywolf Press]], 2006)

* ''The Only World'' (Harper Perennial, 1995)

* ''The Only World'' (Harper Perennial, 1995)

* ''Star Ledger'' (University of Iowa Press, 1991)

* ''Star Ledger'' ([[University of Iowa Press]], 1991)

* ''Ghost Money'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)

* ''Ghost Money'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)