Sarah Arvio


Sarah Arvio is an American poet, essayist and translator.
She is the author of Visits from the Seventh, Sono: cantos, and night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis.
She has won the Rome Prize in Literature from the American [Academy of Arts and Letters], a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bogliasco fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, and other honors.

Life

Arvio has lived in Caracas, Mexico City, Paris, Rome and New York. She works as a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland; she has also taught poetry at Princeton University.

Career

Arvio has been widely published in journals and magazines. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2015, The Best American Poetry 1998, The Best American Erotic Poetry, Women's Work, the FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry, the Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, and Ariadne's Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women's Journals.
The poet and philosopher John Koethe, in his citation for Arvio's Boston Review prize, said:
Her poems have been set to music. William Bolcom set “Chagrin” for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble in a song cycle entitled "The Hawthorn Tree”. Steven Burke set “Armor” in a monodrama entitled “Skin,” for mezzo-soprano and cello. Miriama Young composed “Côte d’Azur” as "Inner Voices of Blue", first for tenor and chamber ensemble and later resetting it for mezzo-soprano.
She was the translator and poetry editor for the film Azul: Land of Poets, directed by Roland Legiardi-Laura. She also worked as a research associate for the landmark film series on American poets, Voices & Visions, which aired on PBS in 1988.

Awards and honors

  • 1992: National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship
  • 1997: Paris Review's B.F. Connors Prize
  • 1999: Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize
  • 2003-2004: Rome Prize
  • 2005-2006: Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2008: Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest
  • 2012: Bogliasco Fellowship

    Books

  • Visits from the Seventh, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.,
  • Sono: Cantos, New York, N.Y: Knopf, 2006.,
  • Sono : with Visits from the seventh, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2009.,
  • Night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, New York: Knopf, 2014. 2013,
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