People / Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki is the author of two poetry books, Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004) and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002), and of three chapbooks: Georgia (Katalanché, 2007), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (Track & Field, 2008); and Masquerade (Vagabond, 2001), which received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. His book Par Raison de Brisants is forthcoming, in a French translation by Antoine Cazé, from Éditions Grèges in 2008. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point, 2005), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa, 2004), and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse, 2005), he has published criticism in the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, Talisman, How2, New German Critique, Australian Book Review, Religion and Literature, and elsewhere in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, he has edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine, 1999) and Ales Debeljak’s selected poems, Without Anesthesia (White Pine, 2008). He is currently translating Sébastien Smirou’s Mon Laurent from the French.