Rate My Professor Geoffrey Brock

Brock's poetry collections include Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005; winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize), Voices Bright Flags (Waywiser Press, 2014; Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize), and After (2024). Renowned for his translations, he has brought to English readers works by Cesare Pavese (Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950, Copper Canyon Press, 2002), Roberto Calasso (K, Knopf, 2005), Umberto Eco (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Harcourt, 2005), Antonia Arslan (Skylark Farm, Knopf, 2007), Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio, New York Review Books, 2009 and 2012), Italo Calvino (Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Giovanni Pascoli (Last Dream, Other Press, 2019), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (Allegria, Archipelago Books, 2020). He edited The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). His accolades encompass Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards from the Academy of American Poets, the MLA Lois Roth Award, PEN Center USA Translation Prize, American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award for Poetry. Brock's translations and poetry have profoundly influenced contemporary literary discourse, earning widespread critical acclaim.