Geoffrey Brock
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| Occupation | Poet Translator Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Padma Viswanathan |
Geoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator. He is the author of a book of poetry, Weighing Light (2005), and his poems have been published in Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, PN Review, New England Review, The Hudson Review, and The Best American Poetry 2007. His 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.
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.
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.
[edit] Education
- Brock received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1998.[1]
[edit] Links
- Official site
- University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation
- The Academy of American Poets
- From the Fishouse
- PEN American Center
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