Naomi Lazard
Naomi Lazard (born 1936) is an American poet, children's literature author, and playwright. She is the winner of two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a former president of the Poetry Society of America. Her translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been widely acclaimed.[1]
Biography[]
She has published three volumes of poetry: (Harcourt, Brace & World; 1967); (, 1977); (Ardis, 1984). The poems in are notable for their "dark orwellian tone" - describing lifelived under a monstrous, faceless bureaucracy.[2]
She also brought out , a volume of translations from the work of Pakistanian poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.[3][4] She has also translated the works of Romanian poet Nina Cassian.
She is also the author of the children’s book, (illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky). She also wrote the screenplay, , and the play, .
In 1992, Lazard co-founded the Hamptons International Film Festival.[5]
Despite her prominence as a poet, Lazard is mainly a poet's poet, not very well known in broader circles.[6] Her poems have been anthologized in Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's (2007), and in Czeslaw Milosz's anthology, (1996). Her poem, , has been read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio.[7]
Bibliography[]
- (1981) (Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky)
References[]
- ^ Agha Shahid Ali, The poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Grand Street, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Winter, 1990), pp. 129-138
- ^ five poems from Ordinances
- ^ Jabbar, Abdul (1991). "NAOMI LAZARD'S "The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz"". Journal of South Asian Literature. 26 (1/2): 156–170. JSTOR 40873227.
- ^ Dingwaney, Anuradha; Maier, Carol (1996-01-15). Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 9780822974680.
- ^ "How the Hamptons International Film Festival Was Founded". danspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
- ^ Book Excerptise: The True Subject
- ^ http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/07/22
- American children's writers
- 1936 births
- Living people
- American translators
- American women poets
- American women children's writers