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Joan Murray, “One Morganatic Leer”
One Morganatic Leer You think you complain of the ugliness of people.Meet your own bed.Smell what you said.Your words, unmitigated, dead,Sink like a noon sun in the crass tomb beneath the steeple. Two feet…
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Variation and quick change [by Moira Egan]
[Garden Gnomes, Italian Variation: Villa Valmarana, Vicenza] I like what Heather said in her very nice comment about my previous post. It reminds me of one of the first conversations about translation that I…
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Anita O’Day at the Film Forum
If you’re within the sound of my voice (as New York disc jockeys used to say), hurry to the Cinema Village (12th Street between Fifth Avenue and University Place) to catch "Anita O’Day: The…
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Found in Translation (part ii) [by Moira Egan]
Let’s just say it’s fun to collaborate closely with your translator. Today, for example, Damiano sent me an email asking about the use of the word “finish” in a particular poem: did it lean…
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Sneak Peak – The Best American Poetry 2008
Men There are also men in the world. Sometimes we forget, and think thare are only women — endless hills and plains of unresisting women. We make little jokes and comfort each…
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“Everyone’s Ex-Girlfriend” [by Sarah Heller]
Everyone’s Ex-Girlfriend Everyone’s ex-girlfriend keeps showing up.She surfaces when I’ve only just relaxed,when I let things besoft. I recognize her because I’ve been her so well.You have nothing to worry about,he says. Why would…
