The Resume

(May 24, 1940-January 28, 1996)
Born in Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Wrote ‘Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems’ (1967), ‘A Part of Speech’ (1977), ‘To Urania’ (1988), ‘So Forth’ (1996) and ‘Nativity Poems’ (2001)
Emigrated to the US (1972)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1987)
Poet Laureate of the United States (1991)

Why he might be annoying:

He dropped out of school at age 15.
He had 13 different jobs in his teens.
He married one of his students.
American left wingers saw him as a reactionary.
He said New York City was bad for balanced people but good for masochists like himself.
He left the American Academy of Arts and Letters when it honored a writer he considered a Soviet suck-up.

Why he might not be annoying:

He hated Vladimir Lenin as a child because his image was everywhere.
He applied to a submarine academy but was rejected because he was Jewish.
He was charged with ‘parasitism’ by the Soviet government, sent to a psychiatric hospital and sentenced to five years of hard labor.
He was forced to leave Russia in 1972 and never saw his parents again.
He translated the Beatles ‘Yellow Submarine’ into Russian.
Anna Akhmatova considered him the best poet of his generation.

Credit: Georgina

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• Exiles
• Georgina/Devil Doll's Profiles [Series 4]
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [A-B]
• I Died in 1996 (Ranked: 55)
• I Fathered Children Out of Wedlock
• I Had an Anterior Myocardial Infarction [AMI]
• I Underwent a Heart Bypass Operation
• I Was Hot For My Student
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Poets
• Profiles 25001-25250 (Ranked: 25231)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 85 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 66 Votes: 42.42% Annoying