Category: Poetry

Yves Bonnefoy

14/07/2016

There is something at once very American and very French about this poem. (The translation is by Hoyt Rogers.) Like Emerson, Dickinson, and Frost, Bonnefoy subjects the forest to close, reverential observation, and reveals in it an earthly Eden. Yet there is also, in these lines, a sense that the vision is illusory, the melting … More Yves Bonnefoy

That Vallejo panel

05/07/2016

I must compose my to-do list: the Service Learning project, the Vallejo panel, the Curriculum and Instruction article, the Houston paper and its submission somewhere, and the Vallejo paper … not to mention the prison presentation. I also have the prize submission, the archival research, and the bureaucratic document on my own behalf. For Vallejo, … More That Vallejo panel

For this prize I need

22/06/2016

1. The application coversheet, with all items completed: A one- to two-page, single-spaced statement outlining the work and describing its importance. A biography and bibliography of the author, including information on translations of his or her work into other languages. A CV of the translator, no longer than three pages. If the book is not … More For this prize I need