People / Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki is the author of three poetry books--Petals of Zero Petals of
One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia)--and of several chapbooks: Georgia (Katalanché), co-winner of the
1913 Prize; Glassscape (Projective Industries); Lumièrethèque (Blue Hour);
Arrow’s shadow (Equipage); Videotape (Particular); Roche limit (tir aux pigeons);
Bartleby’s Waste-book (PS); and Masquerade (Vagabond), which received the
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has
appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere,
including the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New
Century (Sarabande), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point), The
Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa), and Great American Prose
Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner). Translated into French by Sika
Fakambi, Georgia recently appeared from Éditions de l’Attente, and Par raison
de brisants is forthcoming, in French translation by Antoine Cazé, from Éditions
Grèges. A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association and the recipient
of a Slovenian Ministry of Culture Translation Grant, Zawacki has edited
Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and Aleš Debeljak’s new
and selected poems, Without Anesthesia (Persea). His translation from the
French of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck.
Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse), he has published
criticism in the TLS, Boston Review, Talisman, How2, New German Critique,
Australian Book Review, Religion and Literature, and other international journals.