Serge Gavronsky

Serge Gavronsky is an American poet and translator.

Life

Gavronsky was born in Paris. He fled Nazi-occupied France in 1940. Gavronsky received his A.B. in European History and French in 1954 from Columbia College and an M.A. in European History in 1955 and a Ph.D in European Intellectual History in 1965 from Columbia University, and is now professor emeritus in the French department at Barnard College. He lives in New York City.
Gavronsky is currently working on his sixth novel and in the process of co-translating, with François Dominique, writer, the majestic poem "A" by Louis Zukofsky.

Awards

1979 Guggenheim Fellowship
1980 Camargo Foundation Fellowship
1990 Sole judge appointed by the Academy of American Poets for the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation
1991 French Government, Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
1997 French Government, Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Works

Novels

The German Friend, a novel The Name of the Father, a novel Translated into Italian with a preface by Harold Bloom.L'Identita, a novel, a novel Translated into Italian. The Sudden Death of…, a novel Silence of Memory, a novel

Poetry

Books of Poetry:AndOrThe: Poems Within a Poem
Gavronsky has appeared in over thirty French and American poetry magazines including:Lectures et compte-rendu, poèmes. Coll. "Textes," Flammarion, 1973.Je le suis, poème, illustrations by Michel Kanter, artists’s edition, 1995.L’interminable discussion, poem with six original woodcuts by JM. Scanreigh. Editions Philippe Millereau, 1996.Reduction du tryptique, poem with 4 original woodcuts by JM. Scanreigh, Philippe Millereau, 1996.Il était un dire, poem for artist's book by Patricia Erbelding

Translation

A selection of books in translation:

Serge Gavronsky, Francis Ponge: The Power of Language.. University of California Press.Le mecanisme du sens. Joyce Mansour, Cris/Screams, trans. with an Introduction by Serge Gavronsky Translator and author of introduction, Joyce Mansour Essential Poetry and Prose Co-Translator with François Dominique, writer, "Louis Zukofsky’s “A” – 13 - 18.Co-Translator with François Dominique, "Louis Zukofsky’s “A” – 19 - 23.

A selection of anthologized poems in translation:Jean Follain, Modern European Poetry, Bantam Classics, 1967.René Depestre, The World, Special Translation Issue, 1973.Aragon, For Neruda/For Chile, Beacon, 1975.Francis Ponge, Contemporary World Poetry, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979.Marcelin Pleynet, André Frénaud, Francis Ponge, Random House Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, 1982.Monique Buri, The Defiant Muse, French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present, The Feminist Press, 1986.Jean Frémon, Denis Roche and Marcelin Pleynet in Violence of the White Page: Contempo-rary French Poetry, Tyuonyi, 1992.Francis Ponge, Against Forgetting, Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Norton, 1993.Francis Ponge, "The Sun...," Poems for the Millenium, The University of California Press, I, 1995.Francis Ponge, "Rhetoric," World Poetry, Norton, 1998.

''Francis Ponge, “The Object is Poetics,” in Mary Ann Caws, ed. Manifesto: A Century of Isms, Nebraska University Press, 2001.''

Criticism

The French Liberal Opposition and the American Civil War. Francis Ponge and the Power of Language. Culture/Ecriture, essais critiques.

''Towards a New Poetics ''