Gloria Gervitz

Gloria Gervitz (29 March 1943 – 19 April 2022) was a Mexican poet and translator of Ukrainian Jewish descent.

Biography Gervitz was born in Mexico City on 29 March 1943. She studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Gervitz resided in the United States.

Career Gervitz studied Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has translated works by Kenneth Rexroth, Susan Howe, Lorine Niedecker, Rita Dove, and Samuel Beckett into Spanish. which was first published in 1979 and is still in process. Since then, new additions to the poem have appeared in expanded and revised editions. Migraciones is the main work of the poet and it has been compared with other long poems such as Los Cantos by Ezra Pound, Cántico by Jorge Guillén, the Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz or the work by Saint-John Perse. Fragments of the poem have been translated into more than 18 languages. although most of the text is in Spanish, Migraciones contains phrases and words in Yiddish.

Awards In 2011, she received the PEN Mexico Prize for Literary Excellence. In 2022, she received a posthumous PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020 (NYRB Poets, 2021).

Works 1979 - Shajarit 1987 - Yizkor 1986 - Fragmento de ventana 1991 - Migraciones (Shajarit and Yizkor, plus the third part, entitled Leteo) 1993 - Migraciones (including the fourth part, Pythia) 1996 - Migraciones (including the fifth part, Equinoccio) 2000 - Migraciones (including the sixth part, Treno) 2003 - Migraciones (including the seventh part, Septiembre). 2021 - Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020