Richard Sieburth

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Richard Sieburth is a translator, essayist, and editor .

Richard Sieburth is considered an authority on literary modernism. He has taught at many institutions of higher learning, serving as a professor of French and comparative literature at New York University. Sieburth is the author of numerous works including Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont (1978) and (as an editor) A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours (1992).

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Richard Sieburth is recognized as a leading translator from both German and French, including the following:

Georg Buchner's Lenz ( see Wikipedia article: Lenz (fragment) )
Friedrich Holderlin’s Hymns and Fragments,
Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary
Gérard de Nerval’s Selected Writings,
Henri Michaux’s Emergences/Resurgences & Stroke by Stroke
Michel Leiris’s Nights as Day, Days as Night
Gershom Sholem's The Fullness of Time: Poems
Maurice Scève's "Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie"

Sieburth has also translated the poetry of well known American poets into French, including selections from Michael Palmer's Sun (1988). In addition, he has edited many important volumes including a recent edition of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos and of his "Poems & Translations"

His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His recent translation of Maurice Scève’s Délie was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.