艾(佛罗伦斯·安东尼)

诗人的传记

佛罗伦斯·安东尼(生于1947年1月2日)是一位美国诗人，她在法律上改名为艾。艾自称是日本人、乔克托-奇卡索人、黑人、爱尔兰人、南夏安人和科曼奇人，1947年出生于德克萨斯州奥尔巴尼，在亚利桑那州图森长大。她也在拉斯维加斯和旧金山长大，在亚利桑那大学主修日语，并沉浸在佛教中。她曾获得古根海姆基金会、美国国家艺术基金会和多所大学颁发的奖项;她也是她作品的忠实读者。艾拥有加州大学欧文分校的艺术硕士学位。她著有《恐惧》(W. W. Norton & Co.， 2003);《副》(1999)，获得国家诗歌图书奖;贪婪(1993);命运(1991); Sin (1986), which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Killing Floor (1979), which was the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Cruelty (1973). She has also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe College. She teaches at Oklahoma State University and lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Ai considers herself as "simply a writer" rather than a spokesperson for any particular group. She legally changed her name to "Ai," which means "love" in Japanese. She said "Ai is the only name by which I wish, and indeed, should be known. Since I am the child of a scandalous affair my mother had with a Japanese man she met at a streetcar stop, and I was forced to live a lie for so many years, while my mother concealed my natural father's identity from me, I feel that I should not have to be identified with a man, who was only my stepfather, for all eternity."