Geoffrey R Waters (1948–2007) was an American

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, and

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. He served as a Field Artillery officer. He graduated from

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with a BA degree in history and Chinese, and from

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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

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Awards

* 2007

Willis Barnstone Translation Prize The Willis Barnstone Translation Prize is an annual award given to an exceptional translation of a poem from any language into English. The prize was inaugurated in 2002 by the University of Evansville, and has been presented annually since 2003. T ...

Works

* ''Three

Elegies of Ch'u The ''Chu ci'', variously translated as ''Verses of Chu,'' ''Songs of Chu'', or ''Elegies of Chu'', is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry including works traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States peri ...

: an Introduction to the Traditional Interpretation of the Ch'u Tz'u'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1985,

Translations

"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,

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, 1975, * ''White Crane: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama'', White Pine, 2007, * ''The Song of Endless Sorrow'' Bo Juyi * ''Broken Willow: the Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji'' (SUNY Press).

References

External links

"Some Notes on Translating Classical Chinese Poetry"
''Cipher Journal'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Waters, Geoffrey R 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