Forrest Gander

(1956) Translator

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Forrest Gander is a translator.

Quick Facts About Forrest Gander

Born: January 21, 1956
Profession: Translator

About Forrest Gander

[Wikidata] Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956)... | [Wikipedia] Forrest Gander is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of th

Quotes by Forrest Gander

“The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's…

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Good person

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“Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is…

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Meditation

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There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

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Gasoline

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I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

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Ambition

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Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his…

Forrest Gander

American poetry