Irmgard Hunt

IRMGARD HUNT

She was born in Poland, raised in West Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. During the next 25 years, Irmgard Hunt lived in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Japan, and England. Between these stations, her travels included Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, and Uruguay. She received her Ph.D. in Germanics from the University of Washington/Seattle, taught there and in Texas, and has been leading a more settled life in Colorado for over a dozen years now. A Professor of German since 1995, she publishes both scholarly and literary writing.

Books include the studies, Mütter und Muttermythos in Günter Grass’ Roman Der Butt (1983), Krieg und Frieden in der deutschen Literatur: Vom Barock bis heute (1986), and Urs Jaeggi: Eine Werkbiographie (1993); two volumes of poetry, Schwebeworte (1981) and Pazifische Elegie (1993); a volume of short prose, Hier. Auf der Erde (1991), and the anthology (ed. & trans. with Reinhold Grimm) German 20^th Century Poetry (2001). There are five titles of editorships of journal issues and monographs, and some 30 articles and book chapters. The title essay “View from America: Land into Literature” in Dimension 2, 4/3 (1997) is a commentary on writing after having changed countries and languages. On winning the Nobel Prize for Literature 1999, Günter Grass received an Open Letter, published in TransLit VIII/2, by Irmgard Hunt.

Her poetry, short prose and stories have appeared in Monatshefte, Literaturexpress, Flugasche, TransLit, Dimension and Dimension 2, Schatzkammer, PEALS, Absorb, Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, Litfass, and The Brecht Yearbook, among others. A novel and a long story are in progress.

Photo: Peter Beicken

ROCKY MOUNTAIN POEMS (1997)

Winter Fall in the Rockies
Unbound
Solo
How Ogallala Came to Fame
News from East of the Rockies

AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM (2000)

It is Time/ Es ist Zeit
Growth (Owl on a Sunday in Early 2000)/ Die Eule an einem Sonntag im frühen 2000
Zehn Wochen oder elf/ Ten Weeks or Eleven
Einschlag/ Strike

RETROSPEKTIVE

Midday

VERSCHNITT/COLLAGE (2002)

Collage