Sampson Starkweather

L The hammer, the afterbirth, the anvil, the ink, the already-not-yet, the aperture, the armchair, the pleasure of cellar door, the chimera, the never, the more, the bullet, the born, the there, the uncle, the surrogate, the peninsula, the risen, the drown, the jig-saw, the Jew, the glass, the ceasefire, the phonograph, the smoke. Immutable, … More Sampson Starkweather

Barbaric Yawp

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and … More Barbaric Yawp

This part of the text is particularly brilliant

Nadie pretenderá que en el vistazo con el cual abarcamos toda una noche límpida, esté prefigurado el número exacto de las estrellas que hay en ella. Nadie, meditándolo, aceptará que en la conjetural y nunca realizada ni realizable suma de diferentes situaciones de ánimo, pueda estribar el yo. Lo que no se lleva a cabo … More This part of the text is particularly brilliant

MLA 2016

The abstract. Reading Vallejo against the grain of identity Taking as its point of departure not only the poetic subject in Vallejo as primordially fractured but the intimations in his prose works that like his contemporary Borges (“La nadería de la personalidad,” 1925) he eschewed the idea of a unified self, this presesentation will interrogate … More MLA 2016

Things you could not do in Spanish classes before the Internet

Derrotero. He advertido que en general la aquiescencia concedida por el hombre en situación de leyente a un riguroso eslabonamiento dialéctico, no es más que una holgazana incapacidad para tantear las pruebas que el escritor aduce y una borrosa confianza en la honradez del mismo. Pero una vez cerrado el volumen y dispersada la lectura, … More Things you could not do in Spanish classes before the Internet

Submit

Black Warrior Review takes multiple submissions but some of the places I am interested in, do not. Slipstream does. I am looking at Beloit, which does not and which I like, and also Ibbetson Street, and other places around the Gulf because of some of my subject matter. I am not sure about Slant. In any case, I chose a multiple … More Submit

César Moro

Look here. Moro is yet another Peruvian poet with a problematic manuscript tradition, or at least edition tradition. I want this edition of La tortuga ecuestre but this store does not seem to mail internationally. Axé.