Forrest Gander

http://www.ForrestGander.com

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma, California. Mr. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace, and two translations: Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda and Alice, Iris, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu. Be With, his first book of poems since 2011, is forthcoming in 2018 from New Directions.

Mr. Gander is the recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting and United States Artists Foundations. He was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and later, for many years, the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Books by Forrest Gander

Image of Eiko and Koma (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
Image of Core Samples from the World
Image of Eye Against Eye
Image of Be With
Image of Redstart: An Ecological Poetics (Contemp North American Poetry)
Image of Science and Steepleflower: Poetry (New Directions Paperbook)
Image of Deeds of Utmost Kindness (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Image of Lynchburg (Pitt Poetry Series)
Image of The Trace
Image of Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda
Image of Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems
Image of No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé
Image of Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, A Bilingual Edition
Image of Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Image of Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century
Image of The Blue Rock Collection
Image of Torn Awake
Image of Rush to the Lake
Image of fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D?Aquino
Image of Redstart: An Ecological Poetics (Contemp North American Poetry)
Image of Watchword (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Image of Rain of the Future
Image of Spectacle & Pigsty
Image of The Night (Facing Pages)
Image of Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America (Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute Poets in the World)
Image of Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico (Spanish and English Edition)
Image of Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Book Reviews by Forrest Gander

Image of Genghis Chan on Drums
Author(s):
John Yau
Genre(s):
Poetry, Single Author

Genghis Chan on Drums

September 30, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Forrest Gander

“This is a terrific book. You’re going to love it.”

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Image of Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Author(s):
Brenda Hillman
Genre(s):
Poetry

Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

May 7, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Forrest Gander

Brenda Hillman has never gone gentle into any good night. She’s been a firebrand, especially in the last two decades, flying to Washington D.C.

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