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His interests included poetry in various languages, environmental and ecologic poems, literary translation, Vietnam era poetry and Holocaust studies.[2]John Felstiner died in February 2017 at the age of 80. He had been suffering from the effects of progressive aphasia at his time of death, at a hospice near Stanford.Table of ContentsBiography[edit]Selected works[edit]Selected honors and awards[edit]References[edit]Selected interviews, book reviews, and articles[edit]Biography[edit]Felstiner was born in Mount Vernon, New York[3] and grew up in New York and New England.  He  graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy,[4] Harvard College, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1958, and Harvard University, Ph.D., 1965.[2]From 1958 to 1961, he served on the USS Forrestal, in the Mediterranean.[5]  Felstiner came to Stanford University in 1965 and was a professor of English at Stanford until his retirement in 2009. Felstiner is also known for writing, non academically but very movingly, of a former student of his, Elizabeth Wiltsee, in the late 60\u2019s at Stanford. Pretty, precocious \u201cLiz\u201d Wiltsee had been a brilliant literature student, who declined into mental illness and homelessness, never fulfilling her great promise. She died around the age of 50, under mysterious circumstances.[5]  While at Stanford, Felstiner was three times a fellow at Stanford Humanities Center; a Fulbright professor at University of Chile (1967\u201368); visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1974\u201375); and visiting professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University (1990, 2002).[2]His collection of Paul Celan\u2019s manuscripts, letters, and widespread context, along with Felstiner\u2019s own translation archive, are housed at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.[6]John and his wife, the writer, historian and professor Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, have two children: Sarah and Alek, and also two grandchildren.[7]Selected works[edit]The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James, edited with an introduction, biography, and notes by John Felstiner, 1966, Scholastic Book Services, ASIN B000V51Y68Max Beerbohm and the Wings of Henry James, 1967The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm’s Parody and Caricature, 1972, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN\u00a0978-0394472270The Dark Room and Other Poems, by Enrique Lihn, co-translator John Felstiner New Directions, 1978, ASIN B002SMJFNGTranslating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu, Stanford University Press, 1980, ISBN\u00a0978-0804713276\u2018Deep in the glowing text-void\u2019: Translating Late Celan, Representations 32, 1990,Looking for Kafka, Stanford: Associates of the Stanford University Libraries, 1990, ASIN B002RYON96Looking for Kafka, Stanford Magazine, Winter 1991Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, Yale University Press, 1995, ISBN\u00a0978-0300089226Heights of Macchu Picchu \/ Alturas de Macchu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda, translator John Felstiner, with photographs by Edward Ranney, Limited Editions Club, 1998, ASIN B000WW5FYMJewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, Co-editor, W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN\u00a0978-0393048094Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, editor and translator,  W.W. Norton, 2001, ISBN\u00a0978-0393322248this dust of words: Elizabeth Wiltsee, Stanford Magazine, Sept.- Oct. 2001Paul Celan Meets Samuel Beckett, American Poetry Review, July – August 2004Writing Zion: An Exchange between Celan and Amichai, The New Republic, 12 June 2006‘Lure of the God’: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke. (with David Goldstein), Jacket 31, October 2006‘Earth\u2019s Most Graphic Transaction’: The Syllables of Emily Dickinson, American Poetry Review, Mar.- Apr. 2007Nature vs. Man: For Robinson Jeffers, it wasn\u2019t even close, The Weekly Standard, 28 May 2007‘It looks just like the Cascades’: Gary Snyder\u2019s Eye for the Real World, Jacket 34, October 2007History vs. Nature [W. B. Yeats], The Weekly Standard, 22 September 2008Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publications, 2008, ISBN\u00a0978-0791096130Paul Celan and Yehuda Amichai: An Exchange on Nation and Exile, WORDS without BORDERS, 2008 ‘that witnessing presence’: Life Illumined Around Denise Levertov, Jacket 36, 2008The One and Only Circle: Paul Celan\u2019s Letters to Gis\u00e8le, introduction and translation from the French by John Felstiner, Fiction 54, 2008Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems, Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN\u00a0978-0300168136\u2018Deep in the time-crevasse\u2019: Celan\u2019s Outward and Inward Landscape, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Summer 2010John Felstiner on Paul Celan, Poetry Society of AmericaThe Post Natural World: An Interview with Gary Snyder, Poetry Foundation,John Felstiner: The Future We Want\u2014Can Poetry Save the Earth, Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable DevelopmentMaverick translation, Jacket2, 21 November 2014THE V-LETTER: A STORY SURVIVED, Michigan Quarterly Review, 10 December 2014Selected honors and awards[edit]First Kenyon Review Prize in Criticism, for Max Beerbohm and the Wings of Henry James (1967) [8]National Endowment for the Arts Literature and Translation Fellowships (1969, 1971, 1984, 2002) [9]Rockefeller (1980), Guggenheim (1983), and National Endowment for the Humanities (1971, 1989) fellowships, and Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation) Residency (1996) [2]Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu won the California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for Non-fiction.[2]Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew won the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and the Modern Language Association\u2019s James Russell Lowell prize.[2]Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan won translation prizes from the American Translators Association, Modern Language Association, and PEN West.[2]Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.[10]References[edit]Selected interviews, book reviews, and articles[edit]Audio: An Author Asks:  \u2018Can Poetry Save The Earth\u2019 from KQED “Forum” with Michael Krasny on NPRthis dust of words Stanford Magazine, September\/October 2001Felstiner on poetry, environmentalism Stanford University News, April 1, 2009How Jews used \u2018creative resistance\u2019 to oppose the Nazis Stanford University News, April 30, 2010Attentiveness \u2013 Natural Prayer of the Soul:  Interview with John Felstiner by Ilya Kaminsky, In Posse ReviewThis Dust of Words A film by Bill Rose based on the memoir by John FelstinerPaul Celan, John Felstiner, and the Soul of Beauty by Cynthia Haven, The Book Haven, October 21, 2012Farewell to John Felstiner, critic, translator, poet: \u201can exemplary life in literature\u201d by Cynthia Haven, The Book Haven, March 3, 2017  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/john-felstiner-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"John Felstiner – Wikipedia"}}]}]