JASCHA KESSLER
Jascha Kessler is an Emeritus Professor of English at UCLA, where he taught from 1961 until his retirement. A former arts commissioner for Santa Monica, a radio book critic, and an anthologist, Professor Kessler is particularly well-known for his many translations of poetry and prose from Eastern European languages. In addition several volumes of short fictions, he has issued four volumes of poetry. He is the recepient of two Senior Fulbright fellowships, a fellowship from the California Arts Council, and various awards for his translations. ]Books by Jascha Kessler Poetry Whatever Love Declares After the Armies Have Passed In Memory of the Future Collected Poems Anthology American Poems: A Contemporary Collection Fiction An Egyptian Bondage and Other Stories Death Comes for the Behaviorist: Four Long Stoires Classical Illusions: Twenty-eight Stories Transmigrations: Eighteen Stoires Siren Songs & Classical Illusions: Modern Fables Rapid Transit: 1948 (novel) King Solomon's Seal: Fables Translations The Magician's Garden, 24 Stories by Geza Csath (from Hungarian) [also published as Opium: 24 Stoires by Geza Csath] Bride of Acacias: The Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad (from Persian) Under Gemini: Selected Poems of Miklos Radnoti (from Hungarian) Medusa: Selected Poetry of Nikolai Kantchev (from Bulgarian) The Face of Creation: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry: 23 Poets Catullan Games by Sandor Rakos (from Hungarian), awarded the Translation Award from the National Translation Center King Oedipus (in Sophocles 2. U. of PA Press) Traveling Light: Selected Poems of Kirsti Simonsuuri (from Finnish) Tataga's Children: Fairytales by Grozdana Olujic (from Serbian) Our Bearings at Sea by Otto Orban (from Hungarian) Tahirih: A Portrait in Poetry, Selected Poems of Qurratu 'Ayn (from Persian) Drama Christmas Carols & Other Plays Art Catalogue Lee Mullican's Guardians |