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Art Beck [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
dennisdybeck@gmail.com
Bio: 

My poems, essays and translations have appeared in a number of literary journals, anthologies, books and chapbooks from the late '70s onward. From 2009 through 2012, I was a twice yearly contributor to, the Los Angeles poetry magazine, Rattle‘s, since discontinued, e-issues with a series of essays on translating poetry under the byline The Impertinent Duet.  More recently, a  selection of my translation themed essays are gathered in the 2023 Shearsman Books "A Treacherous Art". Awards for several earlier volumes of translated poetry are noted below.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Prizes won: 

My Luxorius Opera Omnia (versions of the 6th century c.e. Latin epigrammist, published by Otis College) won the 2013 Northern California Book Award for poetry in translation.

The manuscript for Mea Roma, a 130 poem selection of Martial was one of two finalists awarded honorable mention in the American Literary Translators Association 2018 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.

Etudes, A Rilke Recital was one of three finalists in the 2021 Northern California Book Awards for poetry in translation.
 

What I'm reading now: 
Epigrams by Martial
Die Sonette an Orpheus by Rilke

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