Serge Gavronsky

Serge Gavronsky (born 1932) is an American poet and translator.

Life

Gavronsky was born in Paris. He fled Nazi-occupied France in 1941. He graduated from Columbia University,^[1] and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College.^[2] He lives in New York City.^[3]

Awards

• 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 1980 Camargo Foundation Fellowship^[5]

Works

Poetry

• Lectures et compte-rendu, poèmes. Coll. "Textes", Flammarion, 1973.
• Je le suis, poème, illustrations by Michel Kanter, artists’s edition, 1995.
• L’interminable discussion, poem with six original woodcuts by JM. Scanreigh. Editions Philippe Millereau, 1996.
• Reduction du tryptique, poem with 4 original woodcuts by JM. Scanreigh, Philippe Millereau, 1996.
• Il était un dire, poem for artist's book by Patricia Erbelding (Mémoires Collections, 2007)
• AndOrThe: Poems Within A Poem (Talisman House, 2007)

Translation

• Poems & texts; an anthology of French poems: translations, and interviews with Ponge, Follain, Guillevic, Frénaud, Bonnefoy, DuBouchet, Roche, and Pleynet. October House. 1969. 
• Patricia Terry, Serge Gavronsky, ed. (1975). Modern French Poetry : a Bilingual Anthology. Columbia University Press. 
• Serge Gavronsky, Leslie Kaplan, ed. (1997). Six contemporary French women poets: theory, practice, and pleasures. Southern Illinois University Press. 
• Toward a new poetics: contemporary writing in France : interviews, with an introduction and translated texts. University of California Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-520-08793-4. 

Serge Gavronsky, Francis Ponge: The Power of Language. (1979). University of California Press.

Criticism

• "BLACK THEMES IN SUREAL GUISE". The New York Times. February 19, 1984. 
• Gavronsky, Serge (November 5, 1989). "'DON'T ASK. ACT'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2010. 

References