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George Economou (born 1934) is an American poet and translator.
Life
George Economou was born on September 24, 1934, in Great Falls, Montana, to Amelia Ananiadis Economou and Demetrios George Economou, a businessman and rancher, both of whom emigrated to the United States from Greece. After primary and secondary school education in Great Falls, he attended Colgate University, where he majored in English and graduated cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. He earned an M.A. in English Literature at Columbia University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1967, specializing in Old and Middle English and continental literature. He taught for 41 years at the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University (1961–83) and at the University of Oklahoma (1983–2000), where he served as Chair of the Department of English (1983–1990) and Director of Creative Writing (1990–2000). He was a founding editor of "The Chelsea Review" (1957–60) and co-founding editor of "Trobar" and Trobar Books (1960–64) with Robert Kelly (poet).[1][2]
He has published many books of poetry, translations, and scholarly criticism, and his work has appeared in many literary magazines and scholarly journals. He has lectured and given poetry readings at many universities and literary venues throughout the United States and abroad.
He married poet and playwright Rochelle Owens, June 17, 1962.[3] They live in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.[4]
His primary archive and papers are held at Columbia University.[5] Smaller collections are held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Princeton University.
Awards
American Council of Learned Societies, 1975.
1988 and 1999 Grant Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships[6] in poetry.
Rockefeller Bellagio Residency, May–June, 1993.
Works
POETRY
The Georgics. Black Sparrow. 1968.
Landed Natures. Black Sparrow. 1969.
Poems for Self-Therapy. Perishable Press. 1972.
Ameriki: Book One, and Selected Earlier Poems. Sun. 1977. ISBN 9780915342204.
Voluntaries. Corycian Press Iowa City. 1984.
harmonies & fits. Point Riders Press. 1987. ISBN 9780937280195.
Century Dead Center & Other Poems. Left Hand Books. 1997. ISBN 9781880516232.
Ananios of Kleitor. Shearsman Books. March 15, 2009. ISBN 9781848610330.
Translations
Euripides' "Cyclops," in "The Tenth Muse: Classical Drama in Translation," ed. Charles Doria (Chicago/ Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 1980), pp. 175–212.
"Philodemos, His Twenty-nine Extant Poems Translated into Contemporary American" (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: 1983).
William Langland, "Piers Plowman, The C Version," a verse translation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). ISBN 0-8122-1561-3.
Euripides' "Rhesus," in "Euripides,3," Penn Greek Drama Series, ed. David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. 312–61. ISBN 0-8122-1650-4.
"I've Gazed So Much," poems by C. P. Cavafy (London: Stop Press, 2001). ISBN 0-9529961-9-7.
"Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite's Garden" (New York: The Modern Library, Random House: 2006). ISBN 0-679-64328-1.
"Half an Hour & Other Poems," C. P. Cavafy (London: Stop Press, 2008). ISBN 0-9547603-1-X.
Editor
George Economou, ed (1978). Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry. Translator Paul Blackburn. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520029859.
George Economou, ed (1998). Poem of the Cid: a modern translation with notes. Translator Paul Blackburn. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806130224.
Anthologies
Dean Kostos (2008). Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry. Somerset Hall Press. ISBN 9780977461042.
Criticism
"George Economou on C.P. Cavafy Translations", Nomadics, May 10th, 2009
George Economou (1975). Geoffrey Chaucer: a collection of original articles. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070189683.
References
^ Daniel Kane (2003). All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520233850.
^ Economou, George; Kelly, Robert (1961). Trobar: A magazine of the new poetry.
^ Taylor & Francis Group (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Europa. p. 250. ISBN 9781857431780.
^ http://www.pw.org/content/george_economou_2
^ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078725/index.html
^ http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/99grants/Lit.html
External links
"George Economou readings", Penn Sound
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