| Intro | American poet | ||||||
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| From | United States of America | ||||||
| Type | Literature | ||||||
| Gender | male | ||||||
| Birth | 1950 | ||||||
| Age: | 70 years | ||||||
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Edward A. Snow is an American poet and translator.
Life
He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D.
He is a professor of English at Rice University, and lives in Houston, Texas.
Awards
- 1985 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Academy of Arts and Letters Award for the body of his Rilke translations
- 1997 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Reviews
Though Freedman’s biography may muffle Rilke’s voice, it comes through like a ringing glass in Uncollected Poems, translated by Edward Snow, who over the years has given readers without German award-winning versions of The Book of Images (1905) and New Poems (1907-1908). Snow is, with Stephen Mitchell and David Young, among the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators.