Sidney Burris

• Criticism:  The Poetry of Resistance:  Seamus Heaney and the Pastoral Tradition (Athens, Ohio:  The Ohio UP, 1990). Professor Burris has published over fifty articles and essays on modern and contemporary literature in the major literary journals and quarterlies including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Virginia Review. Harold Bloom has selected his work on Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott to appear in Bloom’s Major Poets (2003) and African-American Poets:  Robert Hayden through Rita Dove (2003).  Professor Burris has also contributed entries to The Encyclopedia of American Poetry:  The Twentieth Century (2001) and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993).

• Poetry:  A Day at the Races.  (Salt Lake City:  The University of Utah Press, 1989); Doing Lucretius ( Baton Rouge :  The Louisiana State University Press, 2000); poems in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

• Personal Essays:  “Mega-Processors, Advanced Peripherals, and Robert Penn Warren’s Audubon,” Studies in the Literary Imagination:  Writing the New South 35.1 (Spring 2002); “Mr. Huger’s Dictionary,” The Georgia Review 46.2 (Summer 2002); “Loneliness,” The Georgia Review 46.3 (Fall 2002); “The Death of John Keats,” Five Points 6.3 (2002); “Terra Infirma,” Five Points 6.2 (2002); “World Enough and Woolf,” The Southern Review 39.2 (Spring 2003); “Life Sentences,” The Georgia Review 58.4 (Winter 2004).  “Past Reason Hunted, or Living With Sonnet 129,” AGNI Magazine (Fall, 2005).

“Notable Essay,” Best American Essays (2003) for “Terra Infirma”; Best American Poetry (1996) for “Strong’s Winter”; Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, Shenandoah (1993) for “Auden’s Generalizations.”

“Notable Essay,” Best American Essays (2005) for “Life Sentences.”