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On Translating Baudelaire’s Prose Poems for “The Paris Review”
In Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie,” which I have rendered as “Fake Money,” the poet is outraged when his companion gives a counterfeit coin to a beggar. Translating the poem, I aimed for a coherent…
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“No Alphabet” [by Joanne Dominique Dwyer]
If not for the lust of women, there would be no alphabet.Save for the breaking of traffic rules, there would beno Cubism; no fractured light scrutinized from subwaysor kaleidoscopes in the tool belts of…
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Meg Kearney: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Gabriel Parker ______________________________________________________________________ George Says Stop Writing About Yourself (New York, December 2001) This one’s for George,…
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Three Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Wandering Jew 1. In the Gremlin he drove Chicago to NYC And back again I-90 segueing into I-80 Outside Cleveland but neither Chicago Nor NYC could be called his destination Considering how…
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“Little Star, 2015” [by Mary Jo Salter]
But soon, I’m told, I’ll lose my epaulets altogetherand dwindle into a little star. —Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 Joseph, how is your sense of ironyholding up in Heaven?Did you know, by chance, that the…
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Ace Boggess Interviews the Author of “Playlist”
Interview with David Lehman by Ace Boggess Q: You’ve been working on a new volume of daily poems like those collected in both The Daily Mirror and The Evening Sun. An interesting year…
