Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Brock earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books of poetry, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes of poetry and prose. n 1999, Brock received the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for his work on Cesare Pavese’s poetry. The resulting volume, Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950 (Copper Canyon, 2002), received the MLA’s Lois Roth Translation Award and the PEN Center USA’s Translation Award. It was also named one of the “Best Books of 2003” by the Los Angeles Times. Brock’s translation of Last Dream by Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (World Poetry Books, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize. He is also the translator of books by Roberto Calasso and Umberto Eco. His first collection of poems, Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005), received the 2004 New Criterion Poetry Prize.
Geoffrey Brock earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books of poetry, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes of poetry and prose. n 1999, Brock received the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for his work on Cesare Pavese’s poetry. The resulting volume, Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950 (Copper Canyon, 2002), received the MLA’s Lois Roth Translation Award and the PEN Center USA’s Translation Award. It was also named one of the “Best Books of 2003” by the Los Angeles Times. Brock’s translation of Last Dream by Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (World Poetry Books, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize. He is also the translator of books by Roberto Calasso and Umberto Eco. His first collection of poems, Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005), received the 2004 New Criterion Poetry Prize.
