Geoffrey Brock

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Nationality American Name Geoffrey Brock		Role Poet Spouse Padma Viswanathan

Born October 19, 1964 (age 60) ( 1964-10-19 ) Occupation PoetTranslatorProfessor Books Weighing Light, Voices Bright Flags Education University of Florida (1998), University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University Awards New Criterion Poetry Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

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Geoffrey Brock (born October 19, 1964) is an American poet and translator.

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Education

He received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1998. 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.

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.

Carlo Collodi, Umberto Eco (Introduction), Rebecca West (Afterword) (2008). The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translator Geoffrey Brock. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-59017-289-6. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

Anthology Edited

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-10538-9.

References

Geoffrey Brock Wikipedia

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