Benefit Reader Profiles
Mark Jarman's most recent book, Questions for Ecclesiastes (Storyline Press, 1997), was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Other works include Iris (Storyline Press, 1992), The Black Riviera (Wesleyan, 1990), Far and Away (Carnegie-Mellon, 1985), The Rote Walker (Carnegie-Mellon, 1981) and North Sea (Cleveland State, 1978). Questions for Ecclesiastes won the Lenore Marshall Prize for 1998. His most recent book is Unholy Sonnets, published in 2000. Two books of criticism are forthcoming in 2001: The Secret of Poetry (Story Line Press) and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press). Mr. Jarman has also published widely in such journals as APR, Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Southern Review, New Criterion, and Threepenny Review.