Portrait of J. B. Sisson

J. B. Sisson

J. B. Sisson has published poems, short stories, closet dramas, essays, and translations from French, German, and Old English in many journals and anthologies such as Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. The 2001 issue of the The North Stone Review contains six of his poems and an essay on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A few years ago he won first prize for the Delia Award from the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets with a dizain about a pair of starfish, “Astrophel and Stella.”

AGNI has published the following translations:

“Say, desert geometer, shaper”

Poetry by Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson

“One Alexander Herzevich”

Poetry by Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson

“Slip back into your mother, Leah”

Poetry by Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson
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