Geoffrey R. Waters

Geoffrey R. Waters (1948–2007) was an American poet, and translator.

He served as a Field Artillery officer. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA degree in History and Chinese, and from Indiana University with an MBA in Finance, and a PhD in Classical Chinese. He was a Senior Vice President at a California bank. In May 2007 Geoffrey R Waters suffered a fatal heartattack. He will be missed by many. He lived in Glendale, California.

Awards

• 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

Works

• Three Elegies of Ch'u: an Introduction to the Traditional Interpretation of the Ch'u Tz'u, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-299-10030-8

Translations

• "Du Fu as Literary Critic: “Six Quatrains Written in Jest”", Cipher Journal,
• "Thinking of a Way Home: A Song"; "Sent to the Ch-an Master Wu-Hsiang", Sunflower splendor: three thousand years of Chinese poetry, Editors Wu-chi Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo, Indiana University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-253-35580-5
• White Crane: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama, White Pine, 2007, ISBN 978-1-893996-82-3
• The Song of Endless Sorrow Bo Juyi
• Broken Willow: the Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (SUNY Press).