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 Glendale, California.

Awards

* 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

Works

* ''Three Elegies of Ch'u: 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, Indiana University Press, 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