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Reading and Book Launch by Geoffrey Brock
Please join us for the launch of After, the third poetry collection by Geoffrey Brock, with a reading by Brock and Boris Dralyuk. After inventively brings together Brock’s decades-long work as a poet and translator. It is, on one hand, an elegy for Brock’s father, who was a poet, too. It is also a collection of after poems, as a form of translation that is in conversation with other writers, not just the Italian poets whose work he has been translating but also such English-language poets as Keats and Seamus Heaney. Richard Wilbur, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, called Brock “among the finest poets of his generation.”
Geoffrey Brock, author and translator of over fifteen books, is the Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and the founding editor of the Arkansas International. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. His translations have received ALTA’s National Translation Award for Poetry, the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, the MLA’s Lois Roth Award, the PEN Center USA Translation Prize, and the ATA’s Lewis Galantière Translation Award.
Boris Dralyuk is the author of the poetry collection My Hollywood and Other and the monograph Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934, editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution, co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. In 2022, he received the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle for his translation of Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees.
