David St. John  (b. 1949) LINKS David St. John Interview, Issue 11: The Corland Review http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/11/stjohn11.htm “Tennis is a tremendously solitary activity, just you—and somebody else—out there, so it's actually good training for somebody who wants to be a writer,” David St. John told Cortland Review interviewer Charles Harper Webb. Portions of the interview are recorded in audio for those visitors with Real Audio. Study for the World’s Body: David St. John http://popcontrol.com/print/bookreviews/worldsbody.shtml In addition to excerpts from some of David St. John’s work, Robert Beveridge offers his amateur, and ferociously positive, approval of St. John’s Study for the World’s Body: New and Collected Poems. BIOGRAPHY David St. John was born in Fresno, California, to parents who were both teachers. He earned a B.A. (1972) from California State University at Fresno and an M.F.A. (1974) from the University of Iowa. He has taught at Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins University and is now professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has published seven collections of poetry, among them Study for the World’s Body (1994), which was nominated for the National Book Award in poetry. A selection of essays, reviews, and interviews—Where the Angels Come toward Us—appeared in 1994. His 1999 volume The Red Leaves of Night was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry. Among the many awards he has received are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. From the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he received both a Rome Fellowship in Literature (1984) and an Academy Award in Literature (2000).