During his lifetime Hyam Plutzik's poems appeared in a wide
variety of distinguished journals, including: Poetry, Sewanee
Review, Accent, The American Scholar, Yale Review, The Nation,
Epoch, Furioso, Prairie Schooner and Saturday Review.
Between 1941 and 1961 he also published four collections of
poems: Death at the Purple Rim (privately printed,
1941), Aspects of Proteus (Harper & Brothers, 1949),
Apples from Shinar (Wesleyan University Press, 1959),
and the book-length poem, Horatio (Antheneum, 1961). At the
time of his death he was completing a new manuscript of poems
tentatively entitled The Unblest Mythmaker.
Among
the awards Hyam Plutizk received for his work were a 1950 award
from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a 1951 Borestone
Mountain Poetry Award (shared with Rolfe Humphries), a Ford
Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1954, and the Lillian Fairchild
Award in 1959. He was married to Tanya Roth and the father
of four children.
BOA
books by Hyam Plutzik:
Hyam Plutzik: The Collected Poems (out of print)
