Mark Rudman
Mark Rudman is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three of prose. He received the Max Hayward Award for his translation of Boris Pasternak’s My Sister-Life, and he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Rider. Other honors include awards from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the CCLM Editor’s Fellowship. A section of his recent book, the last of the Rider quintet, can be heard as a radio play on drunkenboat.com, with the actress Martha Plimpton in the role of the poet’s mother. To be published within the year is a revised version of his book on Robert Lowell, Robert Lowell and the Poetic Act by parlorpress.com. His works in progress include Identification of a Woman, Tropic Winter, and The Book of Samuel, sections of which have appeared in TLS, The London Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, and Raritan.