Paul Vangelisti
Paul Vangelisti has published more than thirty books of poetry and is a noted translator from Italian. He lives in Pasadena and Bagnone (Italy). In 2006, Lucia Re’s and Vangelisti's translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations won both the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the PEN-USA Award for Translation; while his translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992 received the Academy of American Poets translation prize in 2010. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s S.O.S.: Poems 1961-2013, for Grove Atlantic, and in 2019 Edizioni Galleria Mazzoli in Modena (Italy) published a bilingual edition of Vangelisti's poems, Imperfect Music.
The following is poet-translator Art Beck’s review of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz (Princeton, 2004). Beck, you might recall, is the author of two Magra chapbooks, his Martial translations Epigrams, 2017, and his own The Insistent Island, 2020.
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