Witnesses

Hoyt Rogers is a writer, scholar, and internationalist, educated at Columbia, the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Oxford. He translates from the French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Born in North America, he has spent most of his life in Western Europe and Latin America; he has also traveled extensively in Asia, the Arctic, Africa, and the Antarctic. He is the author of a study of Renaissance verse, The Poetics of Inconstancy. His poems, stories, essays, and translations have appeared in scores of periodicals, including the New England Review, the Partisan Review,Harper's, The Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, AGNI, and The Fortnightly Review, where he is a Contributing Editor. His English versionsof Jorge Luis Borges, Yves Bonnefoy, André du Bouchet, and many other poets have been widely distributed. With Friedhelm Kemp, he published the first translations of George Oppen into German. With Paul Auster, Richard Howard, Lincoln Kirstein, Alastair Reid, W. S. Merwin, and Mark Strand, among others, he has collaborated on books for Farrar Straus, Perseus-Basic, Knopf, Seagull, Random House, Atheneum, Yale-Margellos, Viking-Penguin, and a further list of presses large and small. For more information, please visit hoytrogers.com