Jacob Still Deutsch Blakesley is an American translator of fiction and poetry who teaches at the University of Leeds,[1] where he co-directs the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies.[2] He won a 2018 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for a project on translating the modern experimental Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti.[3]
His poetry translations from Italian and other languages have been published in Chicago Review,[4]Comparative Critical Studies,[5]Poetry Miscellany,[6] and Stand.[7] He is currently the chair of the John Dryden Translation Competition.[8]
His translation of modern Italian fiction, Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth-Century, was published by Dover in 2013.[9]
His own critical work includes two monographs, Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible[10] and A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: modern European poet-translators.[11] He has also edited a volume entitled Sociologies of Poetry Translation: Emerging Perspectives,[12] along with co-editing two special journal issues on poetry translation[13] and the English author Tony Harrison.[14]
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^"'Salvatore Quasimodo: War Poems' from Tutte le poesie by Salvatore Quasimodo, translated from the Italian by Jacob Blakesley". Comparative Critical Studies. 12 (1): 129–134. February 2015. doi:10.3366/ccs.2015.0159. ISSN1744-1854.
^Blakesley, Jacob (2013). Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century/I grandi racconti italiani del Novecento: A Dual-Language Book. New York: Dover. ISBN978-0486476315.
^Blakesley, Jacob (2014). Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN978-1442646421.
^Blakesley, Jacob (2018). A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: Modern European Poet-Translators. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-1138616035.
^Blakesley, Jacob (2018). Sociologies of Poetry Translation: Emerging Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN978-1350043251.