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James Hoggard

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James Hoggard

James Hoggard is the author of sixteen books, including six collections of translations, three of them of collections of poems by Oscar Hahn (b. 1938, Chile). The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Literary Translation, he has published six collections of poems, as well as two collections of stories, a novel, and a volume of nonfiction. He is the Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Ohio Review, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, Translation Quarterly, and numerous other journals and anthologies.

Articles by James Hoggard

Secretary of State
By Oscar Hahn
You washed your conscienceand hung it up on a linewhere the clean clothes dryBut drops of dirty water felland formed a pooland then a muddy riverthat flowed out to seaThrough that sea battleships saildestroyers…
Translated from Spanish by James Hoggard
Fantasy in Black and White
By Oscar Hahn
Fantasy in Black and WhiteI’m lying on my sickbeda smoking cigarette between my fingersI drink a glass of whiskey and sodawhile I listen to a Duke Ellington CDHis heart has died a supernatural deathand…
Translated from Spanish by James Hoggard
August Song
By Oscar Hahn
many fireflies / could have shone in your eyes
Translated from Spanish by James Hoggard