James Manteith

James Manteith is a translator, writer and musician. His translations for singing include a variety of examples from the Russian and Soviet songwriting canon. His repertoire includes original songs as well as bilingual settings of Russian poetry. He is a contributing translation editor for the cultural magazine Apraksin Blues. His renderings of works by Tatyana Apraksina stem from a longtime collaboration with the author and artist. In addition to her full "California Psalms" sequence (Radiolarian Press) his book credits as a translator include "Physics in a Mad World," "Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies" (both World Scientific) and Sirovksy’s "Thank You, Comrade Stalin, for Our Happy Childhood" (Barbaris). He has published poetry, translations and essays in American and Russian journals including Cardinal Points, International Poetry Review, St. Petersburg Review, Clade Song, caesura, Reality and Subject and convolvulus, as well as in Russian scholarly anthologies.