Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives now, with the artist Ashwini Bhat, near San Francisco, California. He is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature. His critical essays have been published in »The Nation«, »The New York Times Book Review«, and the »New York Journal of Books«. Gander met the soon-to-be famous poet CD Wright in San Francisco and the two lived together there, in Mexico, in Arkansas, and finally in Rhode Island where Gander taught at Harvard University and then directed the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. Gander, inspired by contemporary poetry he discovered in Mexico, began translating. His award-winning translations include individual books by writers from Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Spain, and Japan.
He published several books of poetry, translation, and essays before the appearance of his first novel, »As a Friend« (2008), the story (now in film-production) of a gifted man, a land surveyor, whose impact on those around him provokes an atmosphere of intense self-examination and eroticism. In 2014, New Directions Publishers released Ganderʼs widely praised second novel »The Trace«, about a couple who, researching the last journey of Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce, find themselves lost in the Chihuahua Desert. Gander’s many books of poems are concerned with the complexities of intimacy and friendship, and with the mutuality between the human and non-human world – a trajectory that has come to be called ecopoetics. Gander’s recent book of poems, »Be With« (2018), was awarded The Pulitzer Prize.
He is well-known for his collaborations with other artists including Ann Hamilton, Sally Mann, Gus Van Sant, and Graciela Iturbide. He has been the recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.
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Deeds of Utmost Kindness
University Press of New England
Hanover, 1994
Science & Steepleflower
New Directions
New York, 1998
Torn Awake
New Directions
New York, 2001
Pura López-Colomé
No Shelter [als Ü]
Graywolf Press
Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2002
Jamie Saenz
Immanent Visitor [als Ü]
University of California Press
Berkeley, 2002
A Faithful Existence
Reading, Memory, and Transcendence
Shoemaker & Hoard
Washington, 2005
Eye Against Eye
New Directions Pub
New York, 2005
Coral Bracho
Firefly Under the Tongue [als Ü]
New Directions
New York, 2008
Als es dich gab
Lux
Wiesbaden, 2010 [Ü: Ron Winkler]
Core Samples from the World
New Directions
New York, 2011
Redstart
An Ecological Poetics
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City, 2012
Eiko & Koma
New Directions
New York, 2013
The Trace
New Directions
New York, 2014
Gozo Yoshimasu
Alice Iris Red Horse [als Ü]
New Directions
New York, 2016
Be With
New Directions
New York, 2018
Twice Alive
New Directions
New York, 2021
