Andrew
Shields * 1964 in Detroit, Michigan. He has lived in Basel, Switzerland,
since 1995. His published translations include books by Michael Krüger,
Dieter M. Gräf, and Ilma Rakusa, as well as the correspondence of Hannah
Arendt and Martin Heidegger. He has also translated individual poems and
groups of poems by many other contemporary German poets into English. In
2004, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in the
United States to translate poems by the French poet Jacques Réda.
His own poetry has been published in many journals and in the art chapbook
Cabinet d'Amateur (Cologne: Darling Publications, 2005, with German
translations by Ulrike Draesner and photographs by Claudio Moser). (2006)
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