Eliot Weinberger, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Eliot Weinberger's essays are collected in Works on Paper, Outside Stories, and Karmic Traces, all published by New Directions. He is the author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, and the editor of the anthology American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators & Outsiders. His many translations of the work of Octavio Paz include Collected Poems 1957-1987, In Light of India, and An Erotic Beyond: Sade. Among his other translations are Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgia for Death, Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights, and Unlock by Bei Dao.
Weinberger's edition of Jorge Luis Borges' Selected Non-Fictions recently received the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. In 1992, he was given the first PEN/Kolovakos Award for his work in promoting Hispanic literature in the United States, and in 2000 Weinberger was the first American literary writer to be awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico.

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To Arrive Where You Are (contributor)