Lucien Stryk

Lucien Stryk(April 7, 1924 – January 24, 2013^[1]^[2]) was an American poet, translator of Buddhist literature and Zen poetry, and former English professor atNorthern Illinois University(NIU).

Biography

Stryk was born in Poland on April 7, 1924, and moved toChicagoaged four, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. He later served as a Forward Observer during World War II in the Pacific. On his return, he studied at Indiana University, and afterwards at the Sorbonne in Paris, London University, and the University of Iowa Writing Program.

From 1958 until his retirement in 1991 Lucien Stryk served on the Northern Illinois University English department faculty. In 1991 NIU awarded him an honorary doctorate for his accomplishments.^[3]He also has taught at universities inJapan,and was a Fulbright lecturer both inJapanand inIran.

Stryk wrote or edited more than two dozen books. These include his own poetry, poetry anthologies and numerous translations of Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry, both classical and contemporary. He also recorded much of his work onFolkways Records.His poetry was influenced byWalt Whitman,Paul Éluard,andBasho,and translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.

Lucien Stryk twice received the Illinois Arts Council Artist's Grant, and twice the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He edited two seminal volumes of Midwestern poetry,Heartland IandHeartland II,which put the Midwest on the literary map. Lucien's sequential portrait of the city, "A Sheaf for Chicago," was first published in Chicago as part of a "Best New Poem" competition shared with John Berryman and Hayden Carruth. That same poem was recently reprinted in the anthology,City of the Big Shoulders: Poems about Chicago(University of Iowa Press, 2012).

In 2009, theAmerican Literary Translators Association(ALTA) announced the inauguralLucien Stryk Asian Translation Prizes.

Lucien Stryk died January 24, 2013, at St. John's Hospice in London. He is buried inHighgate Cemetery.He was survived by his wife, Helen; sister, Leonora Krimen; son, Dan Stryk and his wife Suzanne; daughter, Lydia Stryk.

Poetry

Taproot,Fantasy Press, 1953
The Trespasser,Fantasy Press, 1956
Notes for a Guidebook,(The New Poetry Series) AMS Press
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest,(editor) Northern Illinois University Press, 1967
The Pit and Other Poems,Swallow Press, 1969
Awakening,Swallow Press, 1973
Heartland II: Poets of the Midwest,(editor) Northern Illinois University Press, 1975
Selected Poems,Swallow Press, 1976
The Duckpond,Omphalos Press, 1978
Prairie voices: a collection of Illinois poets,Spoon River Poetry Press, 1980,ISBN 978-0-933180-21-5
Willows,Embers Handpress, 1983
Collected Poems, 1958-1983,Swallow Press, 1984
Bells of Lombardy,Northern Illinois University Press, 1986,ISBN 978-0-87580-127-8
Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps,Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989
And Still Birds Sing: New & Collected Poems,Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1998,ISBN 978-0-8040-1005-4
Where We Are: Selected Poems and Translations,Skoob Books, 1997

Selected non-fiction and works of translation

Zen: Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews,Doubleday and Co, 1963, reissue: Ohio University Press, 1981
Lucien Stryk, ed. (1968).World of the Buddha: An Introduction to Buddhist Literature.Doubleday.ISBN 978-0-8021-3095-2.(reprint Grove Press, 1994,ISBN 978-0-8021-3095-2)
Afterimages: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi,Swallow Press, 1970
Taigan Takayama (1987). Lucien Stryk; Takashi Ikemoto (eds.).Zen poems of China & Japan: the Crane's bill.Translators Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press.ISBN 978-0-8021-3019-8.
The Duckweed Way: Haiku of Issa,Translators Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto, Rook Press, 1977
Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto, ed. (1987).The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry.Translators Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto. Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0-14-058599-5.
Encounter with Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen,Swallow Press, 1981
Bashō Matsuo (1985). Lucien Stryk (ed.).On love and barley: haiku of Basho.Translated by Lucien Stryk. University of Hawaii Press.ISBN 978-0-8248-1012-2.
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho,Penguin, 1985
Shinkichi Takahashi(2000). Lucien Stryk (ed.).Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi.Translated by Lucien Stryk; Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press.ISBN 978-0-8021-3736-4.
Bird of time:HaikuofBasho
The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa,Translator Lucien Stryk, Ohio University Press, 1991
Shinkichi Takahashi(2000). Lucien Stryk (ed.).Triumph of the Sparrow: Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi.Translators Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press.ISBN 978-0-8021-3736-4.
Lucien Stryk (ed)Cage Of Fireflies: Modern JapaneseHaiku,Swallow Press, 1993,ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8
The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen,Kodansha International, 1995,ISBN 978-1-56836-046-1
Lucien Stryk; Takashi Ikemoto, eds. (1995).Zen poetry: let the spring breeze enter.Translated by Lucien Stryk; Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press.ISBN 978-0-8021-3407-3.

About Stryk

Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk. Susan Azar Porterfield, ed. Ohio University Press, 1993.
Interview with Stryk 'Poets & Writers'July/August 1995.
Susan Azar Porterfield, "The War Poetry of Lucien Stryk."Journal of the Midwest Modern Language AssociationWinter 2001
Susan Azar Porterfield, "Thomas James and Lucien Stryk:" and you/My first live poet. "The Writer'sChronicleOct. 2013

References

^Kates, Joan Giangrasse (6 February 2013)."Lucien Stryk, 1924-2013 Retired NIU professor known for poems, Japanese translations".Chicago Tribune.Retrieved31 December2013.
^"Lucien H. Stryk".genealogy bank.Retrieved31 December2013.
^"Northern Illinois University".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-05-16.Retrieved2012-11-25.

External links

[1] Kates, Joan Giangrasse (6 February 2013)."Lucien Stryk, 1924-2013 Retired NIU professor known for poems, Japanese translations".Chicago Tribune.Retrieved31 December2013.

[2] "Lucien H. Stryk".genealogy bank.Retrieved31 December2013.

[3] "Northern Illinois University".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-05-16.Retrieved2012-11-25.

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