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Naomi Lazard (born 1936) is a noted American poet, the winner of two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a past-President of the Poetry Society of America. Her translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz has also been widely acclaimed.〔Agha Shahid Ali, (The poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz ), Grand Street, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Winter, 1990), pp. 129-138〕 She is also a children's book author and a playwright. == Biography == She has published three volumes of poetry: ''Cry of the Peacocks'' (Harcourt, Brace & World; 1967); ''The Moonlit Upper Deckerina'' (Sheepmeadow Press, 1977); ''Ordinances'' (Ardis 1984). The poems in ''Ordinances'' are notable for their "dark orwellian tone" - describing lifelived under a monstrous, faceless bureaucracy.〔(five poems from ''Ordinances'' )〕 She also brought out ''The True Subject: selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz'', a volume of translations from the work of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. She has also translated the Romanian poet Nina Cassian. She is also the author of the children’s book ''What Amanda Saw'' (illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky). She also wrote the screenplay ''The White Raven'', and the play ''The Elephant and the Dove''. In 1992, Lazard co-founded The Hamptons International Film Festival. Despite her prominence as a poet, Lazard is mainly a poet's poet, not very well known in broader circles.〔(Book Excerptise: The True Subject )〕 Her poems have been anthologized in Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's ''Dark Horses: Poets on overlooked poems'' (2007), and in Czeslaw Milosz's anthology, The Book of luminous things (1996). Her poem ''To answer your query'' has been read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio〔http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/07/22〕 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「Naomi Lazard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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