2022 Corda Award Winners

Corda Foundation Awards 2022

The Corda Foundation and its Board of Advisers wish to congratulate the Award winners of 2022 for their praiseworthy essays and their contribution to the study of the poetic work of David Rosenmann-Taub.

Category: Graduate Students

Diana Rodríguez Vértiz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
La palabra que se escucha, el sonido que se lee. Alm-ería, de David Rosenmann-Taub.
{The word that is heard, the sound that is read. Alm-ería of David Rosenmann-Taub}

Category: Translations

Iván Brave, University of Houston
Poems from Tílimtilín, Psalm Songs

Category: Special Award of the Board of Directors

Kenneth Gorfkle, University of North Carolina
In recognition of the publication of the second edition of his book: David Rosenmann-Taub: poems and commentaries. (Published by A Contracorriente and distributed by The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Second edition.

2020 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2020

The Corda Foundation and its Board of Advisers wish to congratulate the Award winners of 2020 for their praiseworthy essays and their contribution to the study of the poetic work of David Rosenmann-Taub.

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

Eduardo Espina. Professor, writer, poet. Texas A&M University.
Escribir en la cuenta regresiva. La poesía última de David Rosenmann-Taub.

2017 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2017

The Corda Foundation and its Board of Advisers wish to congratulate the Award winners of 2017 for their praiseworthy essays and their contribution to the study of the poetic work of David Rosenmann-Taub.

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

José Ramón Ripoll, Escritor y Musicólogo, Madrid, España
“Música y Poesía en David Rosenmann-Taub”
This essay was published in LETRAL, No. 17 (2016). Universidad de Granada, España.

Category: Graduate Students

Diana Rodríguez Vértiz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“David Rosenmann-Taub y la Educación de los Cinco Sentidos”

2014-2015 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2014-2015

The Corda Foundation and its Board of Advisers wish to congratulate the Award winners of 2014-15 for their praiseworthy essays and translations, and their contribution to the study of the poetic work of David Rosenmann-Taub.

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

Eduardo Chirinos, University of Montana
“La insistencia del espectro en Canción de cuna de David Rosenmann-Taub y My Son de Mark Strand”

Kenneth Gorfkle, University of North Carolina
“Los recursos técnicos y retóricos de la poesia de David Rosenmann-Taub”

Category: Master's Thesis

Raelene Camille Wyse, University of Texas at Austin
“Exploring Jewish Forms of Speaking to God. The Use of Apostrophe in David Rosenmann-Taub's Cortejo y Epinicio”

Category: Poetry Translations

Translation into English

Silvia Vilar, Duke University
Poems from La Opción of David Rosenmann-Taub.

Translation into Greek

Dimitris Angelís and Virginia López Recio, Instituto Cervantes de Atenas y Revista Frear, Atenas
Poems from the anthologies El Duelo de la Luz and Me Incitó el Espejo, of David Rosenmann-Taub.

2012-2013 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2012-2013

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

Ana Gallego Cuiñas, Universidad de Granada, España
“Incitación a la poesía especular de David Rosenmann-Taub”

Category: Poetry Translations

Stefano Tedeschi, Sapienza-Università di Roma y Bianca Iacoboni, Roma Tre.
Italian translation of a selection of poems from “El Zócalo; Cortejo y Epinicio I”

Marina Alonso, Málaga, España
English translation of a selection of poems from “La Opción”

The Dr. Hernán Vásquez Fellowship for a Doctoral Dissertation

Kenneth Gorfkle, University of North Carolina, United States
“La más oscura ciénega: Death in the Poetry of David Rosenmann-Taub”

2009 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2009

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

Juanita Cifuentes, Universidad François Rabelais de Tours, France
“País más Allá. Una partitura de la memoria”

Category: Graduate Students

Susan Campos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
“Imperativos de la memoria: En un Lugar de la Sangre de David Rosenmann-Taub (una introducción)”

Category: Poetry Translations

Translation into Italian

Sabrina Costanzo, Universidad de Catania, Italy
A selection of poems from “Cortejo y Epinicio,” “El Mensajero,” “País más Allá,” “Auge,” and others.

Translation into English

Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, United States
A selection of poems from “Cortejo y Epinicio”

Translation Special Award into Bengalí

Subrahnsu Banerjee, poet and director of the magazine “Podyocharcha,” India
The poems from “Quince”

Note: Awards were not granted for the Doctoral Fellowship nor for Papers by Undergraduate Students.

2008 Corda Award Winners

Premios Corda 2008

Category: Graduate Students

Kenneth Gorfkle, University of North Carolina
“An Interpretative Approach to the Poetry of David Rosenmann-Taub”

Martín Centeno Rogers, Universidad de Chile
“Desolación, Muerte y Putrefacción ante la Desidia de Dios. Una lectura de Cortejo y Epinicio de David Rosenmann-Taub”

Category: Faculty Members and Scholars

Paula Miranda Herrera, Universidad Católica de Chile y Universidad de Chile
“Quince, Autocomentarios, de David Rosenmann-Taub: Fin al Hermetismo”

Category: Poetry Translations

Translation into English

Melisa Stocco, Mendoza, Argentina
“The Sky in the Fountain/ The Eternal Morning”

Translation into French

Juanita Cifuentes Ruiz, París, Francia
Selección de poemas de las libros: “Poesiectomía”, “Los Despojos del Sol”, “País Más Allá”, “Cortejo y Epinicio”, “El Mensajero” y “Auge”.

Note: Awards were not granted for the Doctoral Fellowship nor for Papers by Undergraduate Students.