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My trip to Chile was incredible. Not only did I read from Verano/Summer in Neruda's house, but I found this great cafe run by a young guy and there in a fit of inspiration I finished writing my next book. I marked my gratefulness to Santiago by having this tattoo made by a Santiago artist.
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My trip to Chile was incredible. Not only did I read from Verano/Summer in Neruda's house, but I found this great cafe run by a young guy and there in a fit of inspiration I finished writing my next book. I marked my gratefulness to Santiago by having this tattoo made by a Santiago artist.
”I slept, then recited my most beautiful poems.
The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair.
She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose."
At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile.
(Thanks Weinberger for translation.)
The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair.
She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose."
At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile.
(Thanks Weinberger for translation.)
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
”I slept, then recited my most beautiful poems.
The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair.
She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose."
At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile.
(Thanks Weinberger for translation.)
The flames of my poetry dried the Virgin’s hair.
She thanked me and went off, seated on her soft rose."
At Huidobro's grave in Cartagena, Chile.
(Thanks Weinberger for translation.)
I'm in Santiago Chile to do some readings from Summer/Verano as well as talk about translation. It's spring here and the city is beautiful.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I'm in Santiago Chile to do some readings from Summer/Verano as well as talk about translation. It's spring here and the city is beautiful.
Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt.
"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt.
"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
AASE'S DEATH
(Forthcoming from Black Ocean)
(Forthcoming from Black Ocean)
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
AASE'S DEATH
(Forthcoming from Black Ocean)
(Forthcoming from Black Ocean)
"It’s difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; it’s such a damn compelling and spellbinding book... it is stunning both in image and in idea."
Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
September 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"It’s difficult picking up another collection of poetry after finishing Burn the Losses; it’s such a damn compelling and spellbinding book... it is stunning both in image and in idea."
Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Review of Gamoneda's Burn the Losses at Action, Spectacle: www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Looking forward to seeing Verano, the Spanish translation of my book Summer, to be published in Chile this fall. Especially look forward to it bc it's so indebted to Latin American poetry, esp Chilean poetry.
August 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Looking forward to seeing Verano, the Spanish translation of my book Summer, to be published in Chile this fall. Especially look forward to it bc it's so indebted to Latin American poetry, esp Chilean poetry.
I'm syllabus-making which reminded me of Swift's "On Snow," which kind of disproves the common rhetoric that poetry should not be a riddle:
poets.org/poem/snow-0
poets.org/poem/snow-0
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm syllabus-making which reminded me of Swift's "On Snow," which kind of disproves the common rhetoric that poetry should not be a riddle:
poets.org/poem/snow-0
poets.org/poem/snow-0
from Gunnar Waerness' Friends with Everyone:
July 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
from Gunnar Waerness' Friends with Everyone:
I'm reading from Aase's Death (by Aase Berg) tomorrow in Chicago. Email Olivia Cronk for the secret location.
July 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm reading from Aase's Death (by Aase Berg) tomorrow in Chicago. Email Olivia Cronk for the secret location.
This translation from Aase's Berg's Aase's Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean this fall) is in new issue of APR. I'm very happy about that.
July 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This translation from Aase's Berg's Aase's Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean this fall) is in new issue of APR. I'm very happy about that.
Notre Dame Review has posted some of the Inger Christensen poems from our issue #59 online. These are outtakes from her masterpiece Alphabet, poems that she either excised or heavily revised, including the legendary "O series."
ndreview.nd.edu/assets/61452...
ndreview.nd.edu/assets/61452...
June 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Notre Dame Review has posted some of the Inger Christensen poems from our issue #59 online. These are outtakes from her masterpiece Alphabet, poems that she either excised or heavily revised, including the legendary "O series."
ndreview.nd.edu/assets/61452...
ndreview.nd.edu/assets/61452...
Proud of the new issue of Notre Dame Review, my first as poetry editor. A lot of great writing in this issue. One thing I'm particularly proud of is the first translation of some of the outtakes (published posthumously) of Inger Christensen's masterpiece, Alphabet, incl the legendary "O series".
April 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Proud of the new issue of Notre Dame Review, my first as poetry editor. A lot of great writing in this issue. One thing I'm particularly proud of is the first translation of some of the outtakes (published posthumously) of Inger Christensen's masterpiece, Alphabet, incl the legendary "O series".
"In this mistake rests our hearts"
from Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda
from Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"In this mistake rests our hearts"
from Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda
from Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda
The poet I've spent the most time with over the past couple of years has been Antonio Gamoneda. His book Burn the Losses is incredible. Out from Action Books in April. Let me know if you want an arc.
March 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The poet I've spent the most time with over the past couple of years has been Antonio Gamoneda. His book Burn the Losses is incredible. Out from Action Books in April. Let me know if you want an arc.
"... if there is a type of thinking characteristic of images, it is associative - translata - thinking, a thinking that structures itself by shifting. To represent the flowers in a field Fra Angelica chose to produce only stigmata..."
- Didi-Huberman
- Didi-Huberman
March 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"... if there is a type of thinking characteristic of images, it is associative - translata - thinking, a thinking that structures itself by shifting. To represent the flowers in a field Fra Angelica chose to produce only stigmata..."
- Didi-Huberman
- Didi-Huberman
"Here then was a type of painting that sought presence before representation. It was not designed to withdraw as a classical landscape withdraws behind "the window" of its framing. On the contrary it was designed to advanced toward the eye, to disturb it, touch it." (Didi-Huberman on Fra Angelica)
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Here then was a type of painting that sought presence before representation. It was not designed to withdraw as a classical landscape withdraws behind "the window" of its framing. On the contrary it was designed to advanced toward the eye, to disturb it, touch it." (Didi-Huberman on Fra Angelica)
from Ted Hughes's Crow
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
from Ted Hughes's Crow
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New ACTION BOOKS coming this April:
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
• Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses
• Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand
• W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer
Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!
Antonio Gamoneda, from Burn the Losses (forthcoming Action Books this spring, trans. Hedeen and Nunez:
March 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Antonio Gamoneda, from Burn the Losses (forthcoming Action Books this spring, trans. Hedeen and Nunez:
Stumbled over this brilliant poem by Romanian poet Ion Caraion in Forche's anthology Against Forgetting:
February 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Stumbled over this brilliant poem by Romanian poet Ion Caraion in Forche's anthology Against Forgetting:
As a result of reading a bunch of Hughes lately, I have also gone back to Vasko Popa:
February 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
As a result of reading a bunch of Hughes lately, I have also gone back to Vasko Popa:
Ted Hughes' "Littleblood":
February 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ted Hughes' "Littleblood":
"Who loved the shot-pellets
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
Who spoke the silence of lead?"
Reading Ted Hughes' Crow again. A great book.
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
Who spoke the silence of lead?"
Reading Ted Hughes' Crow again. A great book.
January 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"Who loved the shot-pellets
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
Who spoke the silence of lead?"
Reading Ted Hughes' Crow again. A great book.
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
Who spoke the silence of lead?"
Reading Ted Hughes' Crow again. A great book.
Having a Trakl day today...
January 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Having a Trakl day today...