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American writer and academic (1935–2020)
Robert Mezey (February 28, 1935 – April 25, 2020) was an American poet, critic and academic. He was also a noted translator, in particular from
Spanish , having translated with Richard Barnes the collected poems of
Borges .
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He was born in
Philadelphia , and attended
Kenyon College as a contemporary of
E. L. Doctorow and
James Wright ; after a time and serving in the army he finished in 1959 an undergraduate degree at the
University of Iowa .
Having worked for a while, he became a graduate student at
Stanford University .
Then he began teaching at
Case Western Reserve University , in 1963.
During a year at
Franklin and Marshall College he was for a time suspended after an accusation of inciting students to burn draft cards. After holding other positions, he settled in 1976 at
Pomona College , until retiring in 2000.
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He received numerous awards including the 2002
Poets' Prize for Collected Poems: 1952-1999 .
Works
"Fishing Around" , The New Yorker , January 21, 2008
The Lovemaker (1960), poems, received the
Lamont Poetry Prize in 1961.
White Blossoms (1965), poems
A Book of Dying , poems
The Mercy of Sorrow , poems
Naked Poetry (1969), anthology, editor with Stephen Berg
The Door Standing Open: Selected Poems (1970)
Poems from the Hebrew (1973), translator
Small Song (1979), poems
Tungsteno , novel by
Caesar Vallejo (1982), translator
Evening Wind (1987), poems
Couplets
Selected Translations
The Collected Poems of
Henri Coulette (1990), editor with
Donald Justice
Natural Selection (1995), poems
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1998), editor
The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (1999), editor
Collected Poems 1952-1999 (2000)
Poems of the American West (2002), editor
Poems of Jorge Luis Borges , translator with Richard Barnes
References
External links
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