Steven Ford Brown
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Steven Ford Brown (born Florence, Alabama, 1952 ) is a rock critic, poet, publisher and translator in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ford grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Houston and Harvard University's Extension School. As a rock critic and journalist he was among the first to champion Buckingham Nicks, the debut album of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (who later joined Fleetwood Mac). Following a successful turn as a reviewer of over 100 albums, Brown turned to writing and publishing.
Brown's essays, interviews, poetry and translations have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket, and Verse. In 1988 his Ford-Brown & Company released Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller, edited by Brown with an introduction by Larry McMurtry.
Brown is also a translator of Spanish poems. His translations include Angel Gonzalez' Astonishing World, Nicomedes Suarez Arauz' Edible Amazonia, Jorge Carrera Andrade's Century of the Death of the Rose and Microgramas, and Juan Carlos Galeano's Amazonia. He has also edited a book of poems by John Beecher and co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses" by C-SPAN's "Book TV". He has also edited two special issues of the Atlanta Review on Latin-American poetry.
His translations and other publications have been supported by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Linn-Henley Charitable Trust, the Swedish Embassy in New York City and the Texas Commission for the Arts. The Birmimgham Festival of Arts awarded him the Silver Bowl for his contributions to the arts of Birmingham, Alabama.
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- "Amazonia", prose poems by Juan Carlos Galeano (as translator), forthcoming
- "Microgramas", Jorge Carrera Andrade (as translator), Pais secreto: Quito, 2005
- "One More River To Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher", preface by Studs Terkel (as editor) New South Books, 2003
- "Century of The Death of The Rose: The Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade" (as translator). New South Books, 2002
- "Edible Amazonia: Twenty poems from God's Amazonian Recipe Book", Nicomedes Suarez Arauz (as translator) Bitter Oleander Press, 2002
- "Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry" (as editor with David Rigsbee), University of Virginia Press, 2001
- "Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez" (as translator), Milkweed Editions, 1993
- "Heart’s Invention: On The Poetry Of Vassar Miller", introduction by Larry McMurtry (as editor), Ford-Brown & Co., Publishers, 1988
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| NAME | Brown, Steven Ford |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | literary figure |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence, Alabama, United States of America |
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