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        JASCHA KESSLER

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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





Official Website: http://www.jfkessler.com/


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