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Daniel Weissbort

Daniel Weissbort, poet and translator, was the founder with Ted Hughes of Modern Poetry in Translation, which he edited until 2004. He directed the Tranlsation Workshop and MFA Programme in Translation at the University of iowa for thirty years. His memoir of Joseph Brodsky, From Russian with Love, was published in 2004. His most recent book, edited in collaboration with Valentina Polukhina, is An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets. Modern

Daniel Weissbort's work featured in PN Review comprises 15 reports, two contributions of poetry, five articles, and two reviews, over a period of 37 years. Also available are two reviews of Daniel Weissbort's work and one interview with Daniel Weissbort.
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Further Reading
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in Poetry Nation 2 (1974) Five Poems (translated from the German by Michael Hamburger)
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 51 (1986) Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 60 (1988) Looking
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 75 (1990) An Age Ago or The Maturing Ego
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 87 (1992) The Poetry of Survival: Beyond Guilt
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 99 (1994) The Literalism of Reviewers
Subscribers only Reviewed by Lawrence Sail in PN Review 131 (2000) on Daniel Weissbort
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 142 (2001) 'Something Like His Own Language': Joseph Brodsky
Subscribers only Reviewed by James McGrath in PN Review 151 (2003) on Daniel Weissbort
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 157 (2004) on Umberto Eco
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 167 (2006) The Rewards of Translation
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 169 (2006) Brodsky on San Michele
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 171 (2006) Israel 2006: Worlds, People
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 172 (2006) The Life of the Eye Rather than the I
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 173 (2007) Translation to Kazakhstan
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 174 (2007) Translation and Cheese-making
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 175 (2007) Lost in Translation
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 177 (2007) Inna Lisnianskaya
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 178 (2007) Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov 1940-2007
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 179 (2008) Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 180 (2008) A New Waste Land by Michael Horowitz
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 181 (2008) The Last Singer of the Ghetto
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 184 (2008) Hughes and Literalism
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 191 (2010) on David Morphet
Subscribers only Interviewed by Anthony Rudolf in PN Review 195 (2010) in conversation with Daniel Weissbort
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