Richard Sieburth

Professor of French, Comparative Literature
Ph.D. 1976, Harvard; B.A. 1970, Chicago

Office Address: 13 University Place, Room 606
Email:
Phone: (212) 998-8713

Areas of Research/Interest
Comparative poetics; history and theory of translation; romanticism; symbolism; modernism.

External Affiliations
International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists (PEN).

Publications

Editor, Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (Library of America, 2003).

Editor, Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos (New Directions, 2003).

Editor and Translator, Emblems of Desire: Selections from Maurice Scève's Délie (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

Translator and preface, Émergences-Résurgences by Henri Michaux (Skira; The Drawing Center, 2000).

Translator, Selected Prose and Poetry by Gérard de Nerval (Penguin Classics, 1996).

Translator, Nights As Day, Days As Night by Michel Leiris (Eridanos Books, 1988).

Signs in Action: Ideograms of Pound and Michaux, (Red Dust Books, 1987).

Translator, Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin (Harvard University Press, 1986).

Translator, Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin (Princeton University Press, 1984).

Translator and editor, Georg Büchner, *Lenz* (Archipelago books, 2005).