I’ve been reading a lot of Vasko Popa, and thinking about the games of children… Here’s the poem.
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Coming soon… The Temple!
I’m hugely excited to share the news that my manuscript, The Temple, was selected as an Editor’s Choice award in this year’s Frost Place contest, and will be published by Bull City Press this fall!
I love the chapbook form – a little book you can read in a leisurely sitting, with a pot of tea – and I’m really thankful that this project, which I think of as “my little book on God & the body,” is going to make its way into the world. Huge gratitude to Ross White, Noah Stetzer, and big congrats to the other winners & finalists.
“Let Us Simply Try Again,” new essay on the Popol Vuh
Big thanks to 32 poems, for giving a home to these thoughts on the beauty of revision…
New Podcast!
My thanks go out to John Miller, for delving so thoughtfully into my translation of the Popol Vuh, on his Great Books Podcast, courtesy of the National Review!
New translation of The Popol Vuh!
The Popol Vuh is one of the great indigenous myths of the Americas. It’s an astonishing story where the world is born of divine conversation, where creation is ongoing, where brothers go on an epic quest to reckon with death itself, where our ultimate purpose as human being is to recall with gratitude the names of those who made us, and where the climax of the story is the first day dawning, so that Time, as we know it can begin.
This translation project is something I have been working on for a solid decade now – my goal was to make a lucid version that really sings, the first verse translation in English – and thanks to Milkweed Editions, (and their new Seedbank Series), it is now a beautiful book that you can hold in your hand.
Newborn!
Well, here we go. A new book is in the world. This colt’s wobbly on its legs, just arrived, and hoping to be beautiful.
And now it’s available. In gorgeous linen hardcover. A book solid as a brick, willing to stand in for a can of whup-ass, if need be.
I honestly could not be more grateful to the good folks at Horsethief. And to Andrew Shuta & Jakob Vala for the elegant design.
Let me also raise a flask to those kind readers whose open eyes & hearts helped keep me going. I wrote it the way most folks do, using a charred stick dipped in blood. (That’s nothing new, I know.) But I truly hope you’ll give it a chance. It’s ready for a nuzzle.
New work at Thrush Poetry.
Much gratitude to editor, Helen Vitoria, for including this poem.