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Gustaf Sobin (November 15, 1935 – July 7, 2005) was a U.S.-born poet and author who spent most of his adult life in France. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962. Eventually he settled in the village of Goult, Provence, where he remained for over forty years, publishing more than a dozen books of poetry, four novels, a children's story, and two compilations of essays.〔(University of Arizona Poetry Center,Words Through: a Tribute to Gustaf Sobin ) On the occasion of the publication of Sobin's ''Collected Poetry'' March 2010. This Bibliography was featured on this page. This tribute took place on Saturday, March 6, 2010, and featured Charles Alexander, Edward Foster, Andrew Joron, Tedi López Mills, Jeffrey Miller, Michael Palmer, Harris Sobin, and Andrew Zawacki〕 Sobin maintained his expatriate status until his death in July, 2005 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. ==Life and work== After studies with René Char, Gustaf Sobin developed a poetic style that relies heavily on assonance and consonance, as well as other methods of the sonic organization of speech. He published many books across different genres: fiction, essays, and translations (including a translation of Henri Michaux's ''Ideograms in China'', a prose poem about Chinese orthography). More recent translations include ''The Brittle Age'' and ''Returning Upland'', two volumes from Char's work of the mid to late 1960s that Sobin chose to translate in full, published posthumously in 2009, side by side with Char's French text. Among his many books are ''Breath's Burials'' (poetry, New Directions, 1995), ''Luminous Debris'' (1999) and ''Ladder of Shadows'' (2008) (essays, University of California Press), and ''Collected Poetry'' (2010). Among his works of fiction are the novels ''The Fly Truffler'' (about the art of truffle-hunting in Southern France), and ''In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star'', which is a chronicle of a brief period of Greta Garbo's early acting career. Gustaf Sobin was survived by his wife, Susannah Bott, his daughter Esther, his son Gabriel, an older brother Harris (now deceased), of Phoenix, Arizona, and his devoted cousin, Mikki Ansin of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sobin's brother Harris, an architect and architectural historian, designed the rehabilitation of Gustaf Sobin's residence and two additions for a historic stone cocoonery in Provence, France.〔 Before his death, Sobin named U.S. poets Andrew Joron and Andrew Zawacki as the co-executors of his literary estate.〔 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「Gustaf Sobin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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