This poem is awash with the mundane wishes, hopes, and dreams buried by racial violence. Exploring the episode of Japanese-American incarceration as part of a legacy of anti-Asian cruelty, the lines waft through the landscapes and peoples that find curious company in the histories and places out of sight. How do we recognize a life in the choked telling of our collective past?
Huan He on "Lullaby" |
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San Diego's New Poet Laureate
"Jason Magabo Perez’s work as a writer and teacher has prepared him for what he wants to accomplish in the role: finding voices and offering people the tools to tell their own stories....'I have a lot of love for the city and the communities of the city, and that’s what I’m excited about with this position,' he said. 'But I’m not the voice of San Diego.' The voices, he said, are already here."
via THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Andrew Zawacki on Sébastien Smirou's "The Lion"
"The orthodox part of the evening once completed, we turned to our current project—very much under construction—namely, the English translation of Sébastien’s sophomore book, a bestiary titled Beau voir....The plan was Sébastien’s, inspired tangentially by the so-called 'torture test' that Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi had devised, which involved translating Robert Duncan’s falconer-mother back and forth between English and French, so the original would bloom anew through its successive degradations." |
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