Geoffrey Brock

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Biographical Note

My first book of poetry, Weighing Light, appeared in late 2005. My poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, Paris Review, PN Review, New England Review, and Hudson Review, as well as in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2007. I've received poetry fellowships from the NEA, the American Antiquarian Society, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Florida Arts Council, and I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2002-2004.

I'm also a translator, and my translations include Cesare Pavese’s Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, Roberto Calasso’s K., Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, and Antonia Arslan's Skylark Farm. My translations have received Poetry's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, the ATA's Lewis Galantière Award, the PEN Center USA Translation Award, the MLA’s Lois Roth Award, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Translation Prize, the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

I'm currently working on my second manuscript of poems (tentatively titled Voices Bright Flags) and compiling a bilingual anthology of 20th-century Italian poetry, to be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. I teach in the Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation in Fayetteville, where I live with my wife, the writer Padma Viswanathan, and our children, Ravi and Mira.

Miscellany

All my books on Amazon.com
My Academy of American Poets' website
Interview with The Modern Word
Interview with Poetry Santa Cruz
Poker Report: The Fall of Steve (alt. site 1) (alt. site 2)

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