{"id":59,"date":"2021-02-11T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:36:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition presents a small group of books from the poetry library of the American poet X. J. Kennedy.&nbsp; Born Joseph Charles Kennedy, in 1929 in Dover, New Jersey, as he began to gain recognition as an author, Kennedy made the decision to write under the name X.J. Kennedy to avoid confusion with Joseph Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to England and patriarch of the Kennedy political clan. &nbsp;X. J. Kennedy has written more than twenty published poetry collections. Kennedy is also a prolific author of children\u2019s books, and has edited or co-edited some of the most important twentieth century literary anthologies and textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years ago, X.\nJ. Kennedy\u2019s good friend, the poet Dana Gioia, suggested I contact Kennedy, who\nat the time was searching for a home for his extensive poetry library. &nbsp;I subsequently visited him at his home in\nLexington, Massachusetts and over the course of a few days selected more than\n2,100 volumes of poetry, which he generously donated to the University of\nDelaware Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nrecent years, scholars and collectors have devoted a good deal of attention to\nthe personal libraries of writers.&nbsp; As\ndiscrete collections, these libraries provide unique glimpses into authors\u2019\npersonal reading, their literary networks, and, in X. J. Kennedy\u2019s case, his\nrole as a friend and mentor to other poets.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The range of authors and presses in X. J. Kennedy\u2019s library is remarkable and the books included in this exhibition represent a small sample of what is available in the collection.&nbsp; My own selection is a rather serendipitous one, but I hope it provides at least a glimpse into this remarkable collection, which X. J. Kennedy assembled during his long, productive career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Timothy D. Murray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] This exhibition presents a small group of books from the poetry library of the American poet X. J. Kennedy.&nbsp; Born Joseph Charles Kennedy, in 1929 in Dover, New Jersey, as he began to gain recognition as an author, Kennedy made the decision to write under the name X.J. Kennedy to avoid confusion with Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/xj-kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}