"Write me an autograph in the village they call me Sophie cocaine" Sophie Podolski, tr. Emiliano Battista and Ros Schwartz. I take Bolaño's body of work to be an infinite syllabus, and I've discovered so many rad writers that way, esp. Podolski. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

“you seem to hear angels mocking you, you seem to cry out look at the stars! and run rapid against a fence of spine.” Amelia Rosselli, Sleep. AR grew up in exile, daughter of an anti-fascist martyr. Her Italian poems have been widely translated by US poets— but she wrote Sleep in English.

Tuesday style quiz! Who’s prettiest, most special monster? A)Lou Reed in his Transformer phase B) Nijinski as Le Spectre de la Rose

You never know what book is gonna save you. When my kids & I were reeling after the death of their sis, that bk was Taproot by Keezie Young— found by chance on the teen shelves of our library— a library now under threat. Big presses w/YA $$: you should be out here fighting for your readers.

Hello friends I'm here in the sky to talk about poetry and the Necropastoral, learn about new books in translation, and gather armaments for my War on Heaven.