Pollock, John 1945-

PERSONAL:

Born January 14, 1945, in Mount Vernon, NY; son of John Birch and Thelma Pollock; married Penny (a physical therapist), July 19, 1969; children: Jeremy. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of California, Davis, B.A. (with high honors), 1967, M.A., 1969, Ph.D., 1971. Hobbies and other interests: Music, sailing.

ADDRESSES:

Home—San Jose, CA. Office—Department of English, San Jose State University, 1 Washington Sq., San Jose, CA 95192; fax: 408-924-4580.

CAREER:

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, assistant professor, 1971-75, associate professor, 1975-80, professor of English, 1980—.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, Northern California Renaissance Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Silver Pen Award, San Jose Mercury News, 1990; first place award for poetry, Northwest Literary Forum, 1992.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) We Lie Down in Hope: Selections from John Donne's Meditations on Sickness, David Cook (Elgin, IL), 1977.

(With Linda Van Norden) The Black Feet of the Peacock: The Color-Concept "Black" from the Greeks through the Renaissance, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1985.

The Magic Coat (juvenile fiction), Knight-Ridder, 1985.

Words of Consolation from John Donne, Forward Movement Publications (Cincinnati, OH), 1993.

Work represented in anthologies, including Cornucopia: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Literature Press, 1978; Shadows: An Anthology of the Arts, Shadow Press, 1979; and Fire in the Hills: A Collective Remembrance, Writers' Block (Berkeley, CA), 1992. Contributor of poetry, articles, essays, and short stories to academic journals, literary magazines, and newspapers including River King Poetry Supplement, English Studies, International Journal of the Humanities, Docklines, Old Hickory Review, Seventeenth-Century News, Poetry Nation Review, American Notes and Queries, and Notes on Contemporary Literature.