Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock
Geoffrey Brock
Born	October 19, 1964; Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Poet; Translator; Professor
Spouse	Padma Viswanathan
Website
	geoffreybrock.com

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

Education

He received a master's degree 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.

Since 2006 he has taught Creative Writing & Translation at The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he lives with his wife, the novelist Padma Viswanathan, their two children, and a variable number of animals.

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.
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) CS1 maint: others (link)

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

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[1] "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". English.ufl.edu. 2005-05-29. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2013-08-25.