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Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator. Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and traveled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island. ==Writing and translation== His poetry is lyrical, but often complex rhythmically and structurally. David Kirby, writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'' notes that, "It isn't long before the ethereal quality of these poems begins to remind you of similar effects in the work of T.S. Eliot and the 17th century Anglo-Welsh mystic Henry Vaughan....In the midst of such questioning, the only reality is the poet's unflinchingly curious mind." Noting the frequency and particularity of Gander's references to ecology and landscape, Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate, calls him "a Southern poet of a relatively rare kind, a restlessly experimental writer." Gander's book ''Core Samples from the World'' was a finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award. The Pulitzer citation notes that ''Core Samples from the World'' is "A compelling work that explores cross-cultural tensions in the world and digs deeply to identify what is essential in human experience." With Australian poet-activist John Kinsella, Gander wrote the cross-genre book ''Redstart: an Ecological Poetics.'' The subjects of Gander's formally innovative essays range from snapping turtles to translation to literary hoaxes. His critical essays have appeared in ''The Nation'', ''Boston Review'', and ''The New York Times Book Review''. In 2008, New Directions published ''As a Friend,'' Gander's novel of a gifted man, a land surveyor, whose impact on those around him provokes an atmosphere of intense self-examination and eroticism. In ''The New York Times Book Review'', Jeanette Winterson praised ''As a Friend'' as "a strange and beautiful novel.... haunting and haunted." It needs, she wrote, "to be read slowly, to be uncovered like a secret or discovered like a treasure." ''As a Friend'' has been published in translation in Bulgarian, Spanish, French, and German editions. In November 2014, New Directions released Gander's second novel ''The Trace,'' about a couple who, researching the last journey of Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce, find themselves lost in the Chihuahua Desert. Regarding this novel, ''The New Yorker'' noted that "Gander’s poetic writing lends this adventure story a dense, brooding atmosphere; Dale and Hoa’s troubles unfold slowly in this carefully crafted novel of intimacy and isolation." And in ''The Paris Review'', Robyn Creswell commented that "Gander’s landscapes are lyrical and precise ("raw gashed mountains, gnarly buttes of andesite"), and his study of a marriage on the rocks is as empathetic as it is unsparing."\ Gander is a translator with a particular interest in poetry from Spain, Latin America, and Japan. Besides editing several anthologies of poetry from Spain, Mexico, and Latin America, Gander has translated distinct volumes by Mexican poets Pura López Colomé, Coral Bracho (PEN Translation Finalist for ''Firefly Under the Tongue''), Valerie Mejer, and Alfonso D'Aquino, another poet connected with ecopoetry.〔http://forrestgander.com/books%20translations/index.html〕 With Kyoko Yoshida, Gander translated (''Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura'' (OmniDawn, 2011) ), winner of the 2012 Best Translated Book Award; he is currently editing a volume of selected poems of Yoshimasu Gozo. The second book of his translations, with Kent Johnson, of Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz, ''The Night'' (Princeton, 2007), received a PEN Translation Award. Gander's critically acclaimed translations of the Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda are included in ''The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems'' (City Lights, 2004). In early 2016, Copper Canyon Press will release a bilingual edition containing Gander's translations of twenty previously unknown and unseen Neruda poems, his "lost poems."〔http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/rediscovered-pablo-neruda-poems-to-be-published/?_r=0〕〔https://www.coppercanyonpress.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forrest Gander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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