Geoffrey Brock
Geoffrey Brock | |
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Born | October 19, 1964 |
Occupation | Poet Translator Professor |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Padma Viswanathan |
Geoffrey Brock (born October 19, 1964) is an American poet and translator.
Education
He received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1998.[1] He also holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
His poems have been published in Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, PN Review, New England Review, The Hudson Review, and The Best American Poetry 2007. He teaches poetry and translation in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Arkansas.
Brock is married to the writer Padma Viswanathan and they have two children.
Awards
His translations have received a number of prizes and fellowships, including the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
Works
Poetry
- Voices Bright Flags. Waywiser. 2014. ISBN 978-1-904130642.
- Weighing Light. Ivan R. Dee. 2005. ISBN 978-1-56663-667-4.
Translations
- Cesare Pavese (2002). Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-55659-174-7.
- Franz Kafka, Roberto Calasso (2006). The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka. Translator Geoffrey Brock, Michael Hofmann. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8052-1207-5.
- Roberto Calasso (2006). K. Translator Geoffrey Brock. Vintage. ISBN 978-1-4000-7612-3.
- Umberto Eco (2005). The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Translator Geoffrey Brock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-15-101140-7.
- Antonia Arslan (2006). Skylark Farm. Translator Geoffrey Brock. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-4435-1.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translator Geoffrey Brock. New York Review of Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-59017-289-6.
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Anthology Edited
- The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-10538-9.
References
- ^ "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". English.ufl.edu. 2005-05-29. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
External links
- 1964 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American poets
- American male poets
- American translators
- Formalist poets
- Italian–English translators
- Literary translators
- The New York Review of Books people
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Arkansas faculty
- University of Florida alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- American translator stubs
- American poet, 20th-century birth stubs