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Zack Rogow

ザック・ロゴウ

Zack Rogow

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
New York City
Nationality
United States
Languages
English, French
Residence History
New York City → Berkeley, California

Career

Occupations
poet, playwright, translator, critic
Active Years
1980-2024
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley

Awards

PEN Translation Prize
1994
Work: Earthlight by André Breton
Organization: PEN America
Result: winner
Tanka Splendor Award
2006
Work: Airplane Tanka
Result: cowinner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Irreverent Litanies

2018 poetry

Talking with the Radio

poetry

poems inspired by jazz and popular music

My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers

poetry

The Number Before Infinity

poetry

Colette Uncensored

2015 one-woman show

a one-woman show about the French writer Colette

Translations by Author

  • works by George Sand
  • works by André Breton
  • works by Colette
  • works by Marcel Pagnol

Legacy

American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize. Cofounder of the Lunch Poems Reading Series.