Geoffrey R. Waters

Geoffrey R Waters (1948–2007) was an American poet, and translator.

He served as a Field Artillery officer.^[1] He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA degree in history and Chinese, and from Indiana University with an MBA in finance, and a PhD in Classical Chinese. He was a senior vice president at a California bank. In May 2007 Geoffrey R Waters suffered a fatal heart attack. He lived in Glendale, California.^[2]

• 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize ^[3]

• Three Elegies of Ch'u: an Introduction to the Traditional Interpretation of the Ch'u Tz'u, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-299-10030-8

• "Du Fu as Literary Critic: "Six Quatrains Written in Jest"", Cipher Journal,
• "Thinking of a Way Home: A Song"; "Sent to the Ch-an Master Wu-Hsiang", Sunflower splendor: three thousand years of Chinese poetry , Editors Wu-chi Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo, Indiana University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-253-35580-5
• White Crane: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama, White Pine, 2007, ISBN 978-1-893996-82-3
• The Song of Endless Sorrow Bo Juyi
• Broken Willow: the Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (SUNY Press).

• "Some Notes on Translating Classical Chinese Poetry", Cipher Journal

• 1948 births
• American male poets
• United States Army officers
• Vanderbilt University alumni
• Indiana University alumni
• Translators from Chinese
• Translators to English
• 2007 deaths
• 20th-century American poets
• 20th-century American translators
• 20th-century American male writers

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