Rika Lesser
Brooklyn, NY
TRANSLATES: Swedish, German
Rika Lesser is the author of four volumes of poetry, Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems, Etruscan Things, All We Need of Hell, and Growing Back, and the translator of collections of poems by Hesse, Rilke, Claes Andersson, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Göran Sonnevi. . She has taught poetry and translation at Columbia University, School of the Arts, the New School, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Yale University, and elsewhere. A second volume of her Sonnevi translations, the long poem, Mozart's Third Brain will be published in book form in the fall by Yale University Press.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Currently working on: Always: Göran Sonnevi, who was awarded the Nordic Council's Literary Prize in 2006 for The Ocean. Launching and publicizing my own new book, Questions of Love (Sheep Meadow), publicizing The New European Poets, for which I served as the Swedish-language editor and translated some poets. Writing new poetry, contemplating translating more work by Magnus William-Olsson, Elisabeth Rynell.
Translations
Siddhartha: An Indic Poem, Hermann Hesse. Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007.
What Became Words: Poems, Claes Andersson. Sun & Moon, 1996.
A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems, Göran Sonnevi. Princeton, 1993.
My Sister Lotta and Me, Helena Dahlbäck. Henry Holt, 1993
A Hand Full of Stars, Rafik Schami. Dutton, 1990; Penguin, 1992.
Agnes Cecilia, Maria Gripe. Harper & Row, 1990.
A Living Soul, P. C. Jersild. Norvik Press, 1988; revised 2003.
The Hideout, Sigrid Heuck, Dutton, 1990; Faber & Faber, 1991.
Rilke: Between Roots, poems rendered from the German. Princeton, 1986.
Hansel and Gretel. Dodd Mead, 1984; Putnam, 1988.
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies, Hermann Hesse. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982; Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Hours in the Garden and Other Poems, Hermann Hesse. FSG, 1979; Cape 1980.
Guide to the Underworld, Gunnar Ekelöf. Massachusetts, 1980.
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