Ruth Feldman Explained

Ruth Feldman (1911 Liverpool, Ohio  - January 11, 2003) was an American poet and translator.^[1]

Life

Her father died when she was young and her mother when she was just 17. She lived with her brother, Milton, who was attending Harvard Law School, while attending Wellesley College.^[2]

She lived half the year in her condo overlooking the Charles River; the other half she lived in the Hotel de la Ville, Rome at the top of the Spanish Steps.^[1]

She is the author of five books of poetry and fifteen books of Italian translations, all poetry except Primo Levi's concentration camp stories.

Her poetry has been translated into Italian, French, and Spanish.^[3] Her work appeared in AGNI,^[4] and New York Review of Books.^[5]

Awards

• 1999 Feldman and John P. Welle Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize
• John Florio Prize in England
• Circe-Sabaudia in Italy
• Italo Calvino Prize in the United States
• Literary Translator's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Raymond E. Baldwin Award^[6]

Work

Poetry

• Listen. Pō'ĭ-trē . Primo Levi .
• Book: The Ambition of Ghosts. registration. Green River Press. 1979. 978-0-940580-11-4 .
• Book: To Whom it May Concern. Bauhan. 1986. 978-0-87233-086-3 .
• Book: Birthmark. Cross-Cultural Communications. 1993. 978-0-89304-388-9 .

Translations

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C&q=ruth+feldman&pg=PA1165. Sherma. Jewish American literature. Jules Chametzky. John Felstiner. Hilene Flanzbaum. 978-0-393-04809-4. 2001. Norton. registration.
• Book: Peasant's Wake for Fellini's Casanova and Other Poems. University of Illinois Press. 1997. 978-0-252-06610-8. Andrea Zanzotto .
• Book: Selected Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto. Andrea Zanzotto. Translators Ruth Feldman, Brian Swann. Princeton University Press. 1975. 978-0-691-06290-7 .
• Book: Moments of reprieve. Primo Levi. Translator Ruth Feldman. Penguin Classics. 1995. 978-0-14-018895-0 .
• Book: Landscape with ruins: selected poetry of Margherita Guidacci. Margherita Guidacci. Translator Ruth Feldman. Wayne State University Press. 1992. 978-0-8143-2352-6 .
• Book: The Dawn is Always New: Selected Poetry of Rocco Scotellaro. Rocco Scotellaro. Translators Ruth Feldman, Brian Swann. Princeton University Press. 1980 .
• Book: A book of sibyls: poems. Margherita Guidacci. Translator Ruth Feldman. Rowan Tree Press. 1989. 978-0-937672-26-6 .
• Book: The dry air of the fire: selected poems. Bartolo Cattafi. Translator Brian Swann, Ruth Feldman. Translation Press. 1981. 978-0-931556-04-3 .
• Book: Collected Poems of Lucio Piccolo. Lucio Piccolo. Translators Brian Swann, Ruth Feldman. Books on Demand. 978-0-7837-1407-3 . 1972.
• Book: Shema: collected poems of Primo Levi. Primo Levi. Menard Press. 1976. 978-0-903400-26-8 .
• Book: The Garden of the Poor. Rocco Scotellaro. Translator Ruth Feldman, Brian Swann. Cross-Cultural Communications. 1993 . 978-0-89304-644-6 .
• Book: Liber fulguralis. Margherita Guidacci . Angela Giannitrapani . Translator Ruth Feldman. Facoltà di Magistero, Università di Messina: Dist. Libreria Editrice Hobelix. 1986 .

Editor

• Book: Italian Poetry Today: Currents and Trends: an Anthology. Glauco Cambon. Ruth Feldman . Brian Swann . New Rivers Press. 1979. 978-0-89823-003-1 .

Notes and References

1. News: Obituaries: Ruth Feldman, 91. The Boston Globe. 2003-01-15 .
2. Book: Annual survey of American poetry. Inc Staff . Roth Publishing. 1987. 978-0-89609-272-3 .
3. Web site: The Academy of American Poets - Ruth Feldman . www.poets.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050930232835/http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/250 . 2005-09-30.
4. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Ruth Feldman . 2009-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171004120710/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/R/Ruth-Feldman.html . 2017-10-04 . dead .
5. Web site: Ruth Feldman.
6. News: Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. .