Geoffrey R. Waters
Geoffrey R Waters was an American poet, and translator.
He served as a Field Artillery officer. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA degree in history and Chinese, and from Indiana University with an MBA in finance, and a PhD in Classical Chinese. He was a senior vice president at a California bank. In May 2007 Geoffrey R Waters suffered a fatal heart attack. He lived in Glendale, California.
Awards
- 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Works
- Three Elegies of Ch'u: an Introduction to the Traditional Interpretation of the Ch'u Tz'u, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985,
Translations
- , Cipher Journal,
- , Sunflower splendor: [three thousand years of Chinese poetry], Editors Wu-chi Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo, Indiana [University Press], 1975,
- White Crane: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama, White Pine, 2007,
- The Song of Endless Sorrow Bo Juyi
- Broken Willow: the Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji.