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...book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Posie. He has also taken the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, as well as many others...
...Hara and James Schuyler have out-grown him as literary figures. He is too prominent a participant in literary history to be thought of as only a minor poet, but too slight a critical icon to be considered a major one. It's strange--even after winning the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995 and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in 1996, Koch still seems to be a poet whose presence on the literary scene is undermatched by the attention paid...
...course, no translator of the classics has a guarantee of exclusivity: in the 20 years since Walter Arndt won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for his masterly version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, three publishers have brought out new translations of the same poem. Rabassa, who expects that his version of One Hundred Years of Solitude will ultimately be supplanted, believes the development is inevitable: "If you read Cervantes in Spanish today, he sounds relatively modern, but the translations of Don Quixote made by Cervantes' contemporaries seem terribly archaic." This variety of renditions has some advantages; each new translation...
FINALLY THERE IS the uproar over the award of the first Bollingen Prize for poetry in the Pisan Cantos in 1949, a matter that hits at the very heart of the conjunction of poetry and politics in Pound's life. Heymann simply recounts the attacks, defenses and counterattacks on the committee for making the award, without ever proffering his own opinion. Karl Shapiro--who was on the Bollingen committee, and voted against the award--seems to have had the best idea--that a poet's moral and political philosophy could not be separated from his poetry. But then Shapiro, like...
...centerpiece of this new volume by a former National Book Award winner and recipient of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry is The Book of Ephraim, a 90-page narrative poem. Merrill, 50, sets up a premise that gives him the latitude of Dante and the eternity of Scheherazade. He claims that in 1955 he and a companion made contact-via a Ouija board-with the spirit of Ephraim, a Greek Jew born in A.D. 8 who was also, in a second incarnation, a favorite of the Emperor Tiberius. As a cup moves among the capital letters on the board, Ephraim...