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Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. | |
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| Born | July 23, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Poet, translator, critic, corporate consultant |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College; Harvard University; University of Isfahan; Harvard Law School; Warren Wilson Collge |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Finalist, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 2023; Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season[1] |
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Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is an American poet, translator, critic, and corporate consultant. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently lives in New York City.
Education and Career
[edit]Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is the author of three poetry collections: After the Operation, Salient[2], and Series | India. Recent translations from contemporary and classical Persian include: Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (Forough Farrokhzad, 1934-1967) and The Green Sea of Heaven: 30th Anniversary Edition (Hafiz, d. 1389).
Gray was the founding CEO of two small international corporate consulting firms, Conflict Management, Inc. and Alliance Management Partners, LLC. These firms specialized in complex negotiation, mediation, and the formation and management of complex inter-corporate alliances.
Gray received her BA and JD from Harvard University, and an MFA from the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. In the 1970s she was a visiting scholar at the University of Isfahan, Iran, and at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran, and is involved with NGOs that document human rights violations in Iran.[3][4]
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry Collections
[edit]- After the Operation (2025)
- Salient (2020)
- Series | India (2015)
Translations
[edit]- The Green Sea of Heaven: 30th Anniversary Edition: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz (2024)
- Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (2022)
- Wine and Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz (2018)
- The Green Sea of Heaven (1995)
Further Reading
[edit]- “The Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Díwán of Háfiz: An Interview with authors Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr and Iraj Anvar.” Sufism: An Inquiry, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2024). 40-41. (https://issuu.com/iasufism/docs/sufism.vol20.2_final_issu/40)
- “Catastrophic Desires.” Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, May 12, 2022. Review of Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season. (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/05/12/catastrophic-desires-forough-farrokhzad-anahid-nersessian/)
- “Controlled Burn: Forough Farrokhzad’s Forthright Poems of Desire.” Rhian Sasseen. The Poetry Foundation, April 11, 2022. Review of Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season. (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/157754/controlled-burn?fbclid=IwAR0CKk299e93eBBbFvnR0DZyw1Pv95frV_lVsHPBjgVeVODWN3SAYTmmtFg)
- “Field Surveys and Demons: A Review of “Salient: A Poem” by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.” Fergus Smith. Journal of Veterans Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2021), 186-189. (https://journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/10.21061/jvs.v7i1.252)
- “Missives from the War to End All Wars.” Joseph Donahue. Hyperallergic, January 9, 2021. Review of Salient. (https://hyperallergic.com/602752/elizabeth-gray-salient-world-war-i/?fbclid=IwAR2V1EmhYYwXoQD9WsyIUNw5-Xds_OcuE4HZVuZl1kskfQCRESeBWl8v2e0)
- “A Conversation with Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.” Interview on the subject of Salient, with Eugene Ostashevsky. Music & Literature, November 16, 2020. (https://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2020/11/8/a-conversation-with-elizabeth-t-gray-jr)
- “Salient Review by Norman Finkelstein.” Poetry in Review. September 26, 2020. (https://etgrayjr.com/salient-review-norman-finkelstein/)
- “An Interview with Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.” Interview on the subject of Salient, with Reginald Gibbons. TriQuarterly, July 9, 2020. (https://www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-word/interviews/interview-elizabeth-t-gray-jr)
- “Coming in on a Wing and a Lyre: Nathaniel Tarn’s Avia'.” Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. An essay on Avia, and on flight generally, in the works of poet Nathaniel Tarn. Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. March 2, 2019. (https://wayback.archive-it.org/12142/20201105045714/https:/www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/commentary/nathaniel-tarns-avia/)
- “Series | India, by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.” Dana Johnson. The Rumpus, June 10, 2015. Review of Series | India. (https://therumpus.net/2015/06/10/series-india-by-elizabeth-t-gray-jr/)
References
[edit]- ^ "Elizabeth T. Gray Jr". Poets & Writers. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
- ^ "Elizabeth T. Gray Jr". New Directions. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
- ^ "Elizabeth T. Gray Jr". Four Way Books. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
- ^ "Elizabeth T. Gray Jr". Harvard Review. Retrieved 2025-01-22.