'Poetry is Translation:' History & Forms of Lyric Lecture with Adriana Jacobs

Adriana X. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She has published widely on contemporary Hebrew and Israeli poetry and translation, including articles in Shofar, PMLA, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Prooftexts.  Her translations of Hebrew poetry have appeared in Gulf Coast, Anomaly, World Literature Today, North American Review, The Ilanot Review, among others, as well as in the collection Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant (Wayne State UP, 2016). Her book Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry came out last year with University of Michigan Press, and she is currently working on a new project on contemporary poetry and crisis. She is a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant recipient for her translation of Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye (Zephyr Press, forthcoming in 2020). Presented by the Program in Poetry and Poetics, The History and Forms of Lyric Series, and The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies