Peter Wild

{{for multi|the Swiss electronics engineer|Peter J. Wild|the English football manager|Pete Wild}}

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| birth_name = Peter T. Wild

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|04|25}}

| birth_place = Northampton, Massachusetts, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|02|23|1940|04|25}}

| death_place = Tucson, Arizona, US

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| alma_mater = University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.)

| period = 1969–2009

| genre = poetry, American history

| subject = American Southwest

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| notableworks = Cochise (1973)

| spouse = Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?)

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| awards = Writer's Digest prize, 1964
Ark River Review prize, 1972
nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973

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Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.{{cite book |last=Butscher |first=Edward |title=Peter Wild |year=1992 |publisher=Boise State University (Western Writers Series #106) |location=Boise, ID |isbn=978-0884301059 |pages=53 |oclc=26252302}}{{rp|5}} Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.[http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/2009/03/11/peter-t-wild-professor-poet "Peter T. Wild, professor, poet".]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 11, 2009 Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.Freed, Walter; Greiner, Donald J. (ed.) (1980). "Peter Wild". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 5, American Poets since World War II, First Series [http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=p&titleCode=DLB&type=3&dc=null&dewey=null&id=3852 Part 2: L–Z] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902081653/http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=p&titleCode=DLB&type=3&dc=null&dewey=null&id=3852 |date=2012-09-02 }}. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research. pp. 390 ff. {{ISBN|978-0810309241}}. {{OCLC|59250237}}; also available from BookRags at [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/peter-wild-dlb/ Dictionary of Literary Biography on Peter Wild] {{subscription required}}Wakoski, Diane (January 1, 2001). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140608215759/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3401600775.html "Wild, Peter."] Contemporary Poets. Gale. He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.{{cite web|title=In Memoriam: Peter Wild 1940–2009|url=http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/exhibits/peter_wild.shtml|publisher=University of Arizona Poetry Center|access-date=October 28, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029213059/http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/exhibits/peter_wild.shtml|archive-date=October 29, 2013}}He became the leading authority on John Charles Van Dyke and the high desert. [http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/papers-peter-wild-regarding-research-john-c-van-dyke University of Arizona, University Libraries: Papers of Peter Wild Regarding Research on John C. Van Dyke] His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise,{{cite web|title=Cochise by Peter Wild|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-wild-2/cochise-3/|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}} was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.{{Cite web |url=http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Browse/Authors/Wild,%20Peter%20/W;;1330?2 |title=University of Nevada Press: About Peter Wild |access-date=2013-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143137/http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Browse/Authors/Wild,%20Peter%20/W;;1330?2 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-status=dead }}

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Bibliography

Poetry
{{cite book|title=Sonnets|year=1967|publisher=Cranium Press|location=San Francisco|pages=24}}
{{cite book|title=The Afternoon in Dismay|year=1968|publisher=Art Association of Cincinnati|location=Cincinnati, OH|oclc=678909|pages=87}}
{{cite book|title=Wild's Magical Book of Cranial Effusions|year=1971|publisher=The Little Press & New Rivers Press|location=New York|isbn=091228417X}}
{{cite book|title=Peligros|year=1971|publisher=Ithaca House|location=Ithaca, NY|isbn=0878860088}}
{{cite book|title=Cochise|year=1973|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, NY|isbn=978-0385057929|oclc=707537 |pages=107}}
{{cite book|title=New and Selected Poems|year=1973|publisher=New Rivers Press (distributor: Serendipity Books)|location=New York| isbn=978-0912284408|others=(with Matthews, William (introduction); Eddy, Deborah (illustrations))|pages= 175}} {{OCLC|749520|806553940}} (print and on-line)
{{cite book|title=The Cloning|year=1974|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, NY|isbn=978-0385075916|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cloning0000wild/page/103 103]|url=https://archive.org/details/cloning0000wild/page/103}} {{OCLC|934541|581527653|297449896}} (print and on-line)Reviewed at: {{cite web|title=The Cloning by Peter Wild|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-wild-3/the-cloning/|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}}
{{cite book |title=Chichuahua |date=1976 |publisher=Doubleday & Co. |location=Garden City, NY |isbn=0385114524}}
{{cite book|title=Wilderness|date=1980|publisher=New Rivers Press|location= Kensington, CA|isbn= 0898230144|others= Hannah Hinchman (illustrations)}}
{{cite book |title=Jeanne D'Arc |date=1980 |publisher=Raccoon Books, St. Luke's Press |location=Memphis, TN |isbn=0918518121}}
{{cite book|title=New Poetry of the American West|year=1982|publisher=Logbridge-Rhodes|location=Durango, CO|isbn=978-0937406199|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newpoetryofameri0000unse/page/104 104]|url=https://archive.org/details/newpoetryofameri0000unse/page/104}} {{OCLC|8589531|655452420|610178960}} (Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line)Features poems from John Haines, Richard Hugo, William Matthews, Reg Saner, Richard Shelton, Gary Soto, William Stafford, and David Wagoner.
{{cite book |title=The Light on Little Mormon Lake |date=1984 |publisher=Floating Island Publications |location=Point Reyes Station |isbn=0912449101}}
University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City (as editor)
{{cite book|title= The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions|year=1991|pages=263|isbn=978-0874803662|oclc=22491262 |last1=Wild |first1=Peter |publisher=University of Utah Press }}Contains selections from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, James O. Pattie, Horace Greeley, William Gilpin, John Wesley Powell, Clarence E. Dutton, John G. Bourke, John C. Van Dyke, D. H. Lawrence, J. Frank Dobie, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Peter Reyner Banham. Edited with Dean Saxton and Lucille SaxtonCofone, Albin J. (March 22, 1994). [https://web.archive.org/web/20181117113248/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15829164.html "The Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions"]. The American Indian Quarterly. University of Nebraska Press.
Republished as: {{cite book |title=The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions |year=2006 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newdesertreaderd0000unse/page/324 324] |url=https://archive.org/details/newdesertreaderd0000unse/page/324 |isbn=978-0874808711 |oclc=266084402 |last1=Wild |first1=Peter |publisher=University of Utah Press }}Reviewed in: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160326232547/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-149662046.html "The New Desert Reader."] (Brief article)(Book review). Internet Bookwatch. Midwest Book Review. 2006. and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160415114918/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-148973366.html "The New Desert Reader: Descriptions of America's Arid Regions"]. (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2006.
{{cite book |title=The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931 |year=1993 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofj00vand/page/324 324] |isbn=0874803926 |oclc=28025404 |last1=Dyke |first1=John Charles Van |publisher=University of Utah Press }}Reviewed by: Ingham, Zita (March 22, 1995). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140608083940/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-188966729.html "The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861–1931"]. Nineteenth-Century Prose.
{{cite book|title=Into the Wilderness Dream: Explorations Narratives of the American West, 1500–1805| year= 1994| pages=416| others=with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.) | isbn = 0874804434 |oclc=29221605 }}
{{cite book|title=A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805–1850 |year=1997 | pages = 348 | others=with Barclay, Donald A. & Maguire, James H. (eds.) |publisher=University of Utah Press |isbn =978-0874805390}} {{OCLC|36726740|44964200}} (print and on-line)
{{cite book|title= The Grumbling Gods: a Palm Springs Reader| year= 2007| pages=251| isbn=978-0874808995| last1= Wild| first1= Peter| publisher= University of Utah Press}} {{OCLC|122974473|608203796|608020250}} (print and on-line)Reviewed in: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160409075201/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172603965.html "'The grumbling gods; a Palm Springs reader'"]. (Brief Article)(Book Review). Reference & Research Book News. Book News Inc. 2007.
Boise State University Western Writers Series (BSUWWS #) – Boise, Idaho
Alberto Ríos (#131). 1998. pp. 51. {{ISBN|978-0884301301}}. {{OCLC|40252765|246369356}}
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (#101). 1991. pp. 51. {{ISBN|978-0884301004}}. {{OCLC|24515951|656314379}} (print and on-line)
Ann Zwinger (#111). 1993. pp. 51. {{ISBN|978-0884301103}}. {{OCLC|28516925}}
Barry Lopez (#94). 1984. pp. 49. {{ISBN|978-0884300380}}. {{OCLC|10984800}}
Clarence King (#48). 1981. pp. 46. {{ISBN|978-0884300724}}. {{OCLC|7628120}}
Desert Literature: The Early Period (#146). 2001. pp. 51. {{ISBN|978-0884301455}}. {{OCLC|46683491}}
Desert Literature: The Middle Period: J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, and Edwin Corle (#138). 1999. pp. 53. {{ISBN|978-0884301370}}. {{OCLC|42076940}}
Desert Literature: The Modern Period (#144). 2000. pp. 52. {{ISBN|978-0884301431}}. {{OCLC|44641313}}
Enos Mills (#36). Cover design and illustration by Arny Skov. 1979. pp. 47. {{ISBN|978-0884300601}}. {{OCLC|6006498}}
George Wharton James (#93). 1990. pp. 52. {{ISBN|978-0884300922}}. {{OCLC|22357424|754890912}}
J. Ross Browne (#157). 2003. pp. 49. {{ISBN|978-0884301578}}. {{OCLC|50722235}}
James Welch (#57). 1983. pp. 49. {{ISBN|978-0884300311}}. {{OCLC|10086364}}
John C. Van Dyke: The Desert (#82). 1988. pp. 52. {{ISBN|978-0884300816}}. {{OCLC|18596618}}
John Haines (#68). 1985. pp. 51. {{ISBN|978-0884300427}}. {{OCLC|12672075}}
John Nichols (#75). 1986. pp. 52. {{ISBN|978-0884300496}}. {{OCLC|14712741}}
Theodore Strong Van Dyke (#121). 1995. pp. 54. {{ISBN|978-0884301202}}. {{OCLC|33054151}}
The Shady Myrick Research Project – Johannesburg, California
{{cite book|title=Desert Magazine: The Henderson Years|year=2004|pages=112|oclc=56193617}}
{{cite book |title=J. Smeaton Chase |year=2005 |pages= 211 |oclc=62232191}}
{{cite book|title=Marshal South, of Yaquitepec|year=2005|pages=157|oclc=58796769}}A biography of South, who wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) in Desert Magazine about his primitive life on the desert.
{{cite book | title = News from Palm Springs: The Letters of Carl Eytel, Edmund C. Jaeger, J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Francis Saunders, and Others of the Creative Brotherhood and Its Background | year= 2007 | series = Vol. I and II | oclc = 163456618}}
{{cite book | title = Tipping the Dream: A Brief History of Palm Springs | year= 2007 | pages = 228 | oclc = 152590848 }}
{{cite book |title=William Pester: The Hermit of Palm Springs |year=2008 |pages= 161 |oclc=234084689}}
Other publishers:
{{cite book| title = Pioneer Conservations of Western America| year = 1979| publisher = Mountain Press Pub. Co.| location = Missoula, MN| others = Abbey, Edward (introduction)| pages = [https://archive.org/details/pioneerconservat0000wild/page/247 247]| isbn = 978-0878421077| url = https://archive.org/details/pioneerconservat0000wild/page/247}} {{OCLC|4114529|752883606}} (print and on-line)
{{cite book | title= The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke: Selected Letters |year= 1997| publisher= University of Nevada Press |location=Reno|others= Teague, David W. |pages = 165| series = Western Literature Series| isbn =978-0874172942}} {{OCLC|35928275|605037003}} (print and on-line)Reviewed in: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140608013716/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-25388184.html "The Secret Life of John C Van Dyke: Selected Letters."] Virginia Quarterly Review January 1, 1998.
Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier. Van Dyke, Dix. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 183. {{ISBN|978-0801856259}}. {{OCLC|36178998|605563047|658057160}} (print and on-line)Reviewed by: Steeples, Douglas (April 1, 2000, copyright Summer 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111045402/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-52517311.html "Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town]." Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society. {{OCLC|4894630759}} and Yardley, Jonathan. (December 17, 1997). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111045405/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-760815.html "Desert Solitaire; A Quirky Chronicle of Life in the Mojave"]. The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive.
{{cite book| title= The Opal Desert: Explorations of Fantasy and Reality in the American Southwest |year= 1999| publisher = University of Texas Press| location= Austin|pages = 219| isbn=978-0292791299}} {{OCLC|40762502|649978425}} (print and on-line)
{{cite book| title= Different Travellers, Different Eyes: Artists' Narratives of the American West, 1820–1920 |year = 2001| publisher= Texas Christian University |location= Fort Worth |others= edited with Barclay, Donald A. and Maquire, James H. | pages=270 |isbn=978-0875652429|oclc=46858598}}
{{cite book|title=Paradise of Desire: Eleven Palm Springs Novels|year=2011|publisher=Estate of Peter Wild|location=Tucson, AZ|pages=281 |oclc=748584112}}
{{cite book |title=Heiress of Doom: Lois Kellogg of Palm Springs |year=2011 |publisher=Estate of Peter Wild| location=Tucson, AZ |pages=449 |oclc=748583736 }}

Notes

Peters, Robert (October–November 1974). "Mud Men Mud Women". Margins. Vol. 14. pp. 57 ff.
Republished in Robert Peters (1979). The Great American Poetry Bake-off. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 274. {{ISBN|978-0810812314}}. {{OCLC|5101106|643676039}} (print and on-line)
Seavey, Ormond (Spring 1975). "Peter Wild: An Introduction". New York: Little Magazine. Vol. 9, pp. 4–10. (Available in [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/guide/publishing/ the Little Magazine archive, 1965–1988], at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC): University of Texas at Austin, {{OCLC|78144730}}.)

External links

[http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS389.xml&doc.view=print;chunk.id=0 University of Arizona Archives: Papers of Peter Wild 1989–2004] – an index of Wild's research regarding John C. Van Dyke, {{OCLC|57378322}}
{{cite web |last1=Harrell Clark |first1=LaVerne |title=Portraits of Poets – Peter Wild 1975 |url=https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/laverne/id/48/ |website=Arizona Memory Project |publisher=University of Arizona Poetry Center |location=Tucson, AZ}}
{{cite web |last1=Wild |first1=Peter |title=Readings: VOCA (1970, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1993) |url=https://voca.arizona.edu/readings-list/55 |website=University of Arizona Poetry Center |location=Tucson, AZ |format=Audio|date=n.d.}}
{{cite web |last1=Wild |first1=Peter |title=Poem; The Buffalo |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=32323 |website=Poetry Magazine |publisher=Poetry Foundation |pages=201–203 |date=July 1972}}
{{cite web |author1=Wild, Peter |title=Correspondence |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89k4gz1/admin/ |website=Online Archive of California |publisher=California Digital Library |author2=Moon, Germaine |format=Mojave Desert Archives |location=Essex, CA|quote=Collection Number: AR.2003.002}}
{{cite web |title=Wild, Peter |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/wild-peter-0 |website=Encyclopedia.com}}