Poet
Publications & Prizes
Books:
Mozart's Third Brain by Göran Sonnevi (Yale University Press, 2009)
, Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008)
, Siddhartha: An Indic Poem by Hermann Hesse (Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2007)
, Growing Back (University of South Carolina Press, 1997)
, All We Need of Hell (University of North Texas Press, 1995)
, A Child Is Not a Knife by Göran Sonnevi (Princeton University Press, 1993)
, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton University Press, 1986)
, Etruscan Things (George Braziller, Inc., 1983)
Journals:
Literary Imagination
, New Republic
, Paris Review
, , , , The New Yorker
, Prizes won:
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (1974).
Ingram-Merrill Foundation Poetry Writing Grant (1978). Landon Poetry Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets for <i>Guide to the Underworld</i> by Gunnar Ekelöf (1982). Poetry Translation Prize from the Swedish Academy (1996). Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (1999). Two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships for Translation (2001, poetry; 2013 fiction). Yaddo Fellowship (2001). Twice the Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation for selections of poetry by Göran Sonnevi (1992, 2002). The Greek National Translation Prize (2014) with Cecile Inglessis Margellos for <i>The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems</i> by Kiki Dimoula.
Personal Favorites
What I'm reading now:
The Elusive Obvious by , Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power by , a place to live by , Bok Utom Namn by
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Adults, Any
Fluent in:
Swedish
Born in:
Brooklyn
Raised in:
Brooklyn,
NY
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Last update: May 05, 2014