Mark Weiss
Poet and translator Mark Weiss was born in New York in 1943. Since publishing his first poetry collection in 1976, he has published a number of books, and co-edited the anthology Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California (2002) as well as an anthology of Cuban poetry, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry. His most recent publications are As Luck Would Have It (Shearsman Books, 2015) and A Suite of Dances (Shearsman, 2021), and translations of Gaspar Orozco,...See more
Poet and translator Mark Weiss was born in New York in 1943. Since publishing his first poetry collection in 1976, he has published a number of books, and co-edited the anthology Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California (2002) as well as an anthology of Cuban poetry, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry. His most recent publications are As Luck Would Have It (Shearsman Books, 2015) and A Suite of Dances (Shearsman, 2021), and translations of Gaspar Orozco, including The Book of the Peony (Shearsman, 2017). He divides his time between New York and Glasgow. See less
