Cover reveal for Before Nightfall
Just saw they’ve posted a cover for Silvia Vecchini’s verse novel, Before Nightfall, which I recently translated from Italian for the NYRB Kids imprint. It looks good! Here’s a bit […] Read more ...
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Laila Lalami reviews SF in The Nation
I’m so happy to see this terrific, thoughtful review of Montellier’s book by Lalami, who provides excellent context and analysis throughout. Here’s a snippet: The future that the French artist […] Read more ...
Tempo: Excursions in 21st-Century Italian Poetry
Today is the pub date for Luca Paci’s impressive-looking new anthology, Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry. I’m pleased to have a few of my translations included, of poems […] Read more ...
Allegria receives inaugural Joseph Tusiani Prize
My translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria, published in 2020 by Archipelago Books, has received the inaugural Joseph Tusiani Prize from the Journal of Italian Translation. I’m delighted there is now […] Read more ...
Allegria receives the National Translation Award
My translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s first book, Allegria, published by the amazing Archipelago Books in 2020, received the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry from the American Literary Translators Association. […] Read more ...
Pascoli’s “Three Grapes” at Poetry Daily
My thanks to the editors of Poetry Daily, who have chosen “Three Grapes,” my translation of an 1892 epigram by Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection Last Dream, as today’s poem […] Read more ...
Vanishing Acts: Two Posthumous Translations by Frederika Randall
In the new issue of the New York Review of Books, I have a review-essay of two terrific novels translated by the late Frederika Randall: Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing by […] Read more ...
Teaching at Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
I’m thrilled to be teaching again for the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, though this year, of course, the classes will be virtual. The conference is a week-long series of workshops […] Read more ...
Last Dream receives the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize
My translation of the selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Last Dream, published by the excellent World Poetry Books in 2019, was awarded the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize by the […] Read more ...
Two poems in TLR: Feverish
I’m delighted to have two pieces in the “Feverish” issue of The Literary Review: a poem called “Totem” (a sonnet about my father that owes a debt to the first […] Read more ...