- Richard Sieburth
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 atNew 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).Overview
Richard Sieburth is recognized as a leading translator from both German and French, including the following:
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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 ofEzra Pound 's "Pisan Cantos " and of his "Poems & Translations " His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize . His recent translation ofMaurice Scève ’s Délie was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize.External links
* [http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_59_Sieburth.mp3 "Cross-Cultural Poetics: Show #59: Palimpsest and Retrieval"] Richard Sieburth discusses and reads from his translation of Georg Buchner's Lenz (available in
MP3 ) /Audio file
* [http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,49012_1_10,00.html Hieronymo's Mad Againe: On Translating Nerval]
* [http://loa.org/article.jsp?art=277 "Editor's Note": Richard Sieburth on "Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations"] link here to read Sieburth's editor's note to this "Library of America" volume of Ezra Pound
* [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/text/Sieburth-Richard_Pound.html "The Work of Voice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"] part of Sieburth's "The Sound of Pound: A Listener’s Guide" part of PENNSound's Ezra Pound page, with complete recordings of Pound available:US-poet-stub
:France-writer-stub
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