Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, including
The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish. He is also the editor of
At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (all from Chicago). A book of prose,
Berlin Notebook, reporting about the refugee crisis (LARB) came out in 2016, and the chapbook,
Everything I Do I Do Good: Trumpoems (Dispatches from the Poetry Wars) in 2018. A recipient of Whiting, Guggenheim, Amy Lowell, and Rome Prize fellowships, he teaches at University of Maryland, and lives with his family in Washington D.C.
Photo credit: Ralph Alswang.
What are you working on?
I'm finishing a translation from German, of Nelly Sachs' 1959 volume,
Flight & Metamorphosis, something I've been working on for a couple of years, with the help of Linda Parshall, a German scholar and friend. The translation is very close to finished; now I have to write the introduction and compile the notes. It'll be the first translation of the entire volume, one of her two masterpieces (the other,
Glowing Enigmas, translated in full by Michael Hamburger about 50 years ago).
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