Lloyd Haft

Lloyd Haft (born November 9, 1946 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA) is an American-born Dutch poet, translator, and sinologist. He has been living in the Netherlands since 1968. Haft was educated at Harvard College and Leiden University. His translations into Dutch include works by Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane. He has translated Gerrit Kouwenaar, H. H. ter Balkt, Anton Ent, Bian Zhilin, Zhou Mengdie, Yang Lingye, and Lo Fu into English.

Awards

• Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for De Psalmen (2004)
• Jan Campert Prize for Atlantis (1994)

Bibliography

Books in English (selection)

• 2006 – Zhou Mengdie's Poetry of Consciousness
• 2005 - Formosa
• 2002 - Where does old light go? / Wohin geht altes Licht?
• 2000 – The Chinese Sonnet. Meanings of a Form
• 1998 – Where is the body that will hold?
• 1996 – Anthropos
• 1993 – Atlantis
• 1981 – Pien Chih-lin (revised 1983, second printing, 2011)