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Raymond Roussel’s “Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique”: 3 Extracts translated by Mark Ford
(Ed. note: In 2011 Mark Ford wrote for us about the experience of translating Raymond Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique. You can read yesterday's post here. Find Ford's new translation here. ) The first two extracts are footnotes…
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Nancy Vieira Couto’s “Carlota Wears Her Sister’s Life Like Skin”
Carlota wears her sister’s life like skin,a snug imprisonment. She wanted less surety, wanted not to bemoonservant to a planet on its boisterous orbit. But Maria Conceição’schildren were easy, their faces bowls to be…
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Mark Ford on Raymond Roussel: “Such Also Wonder”
Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique is largely made up of lists. Most of Canto II, for instance, is taken up by a list of 207 examples of things of things that might be mistaken for smaller things…
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“Arthur Rimbaud” [a prose poem by Robert Fernandez]
A poet sobers up. A seer sits up. Sees a literary establishment. A mother. An order seamless as glass. Sees his enemy and says: let’s be honest. Says to the child: let’s be honest.…
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Asian American Writers Workshop Celebrates BAP 2020
This #PoetryTuesday we're partnering with @TheAALR and @SmithsonianAPA to share ten poems from BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2020, edited by @PaisleyRekdal. From 10 AM until 7 PM, we'll be sharing a poem every hour. Stay…
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The Great(est) Game [by John Emil Vincent]
In today's New York Times, a place I know we all rush for the latest and "greatest" in poetry criticism, David Orr asks, in "The Great(ness) Game, basically, what will happen when THE generation…
