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Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. 80 pages.
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poems in I Want to Tell You give rise to the possibility that abjection can apply to grief, as in the impossibility of…
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Tatiana Oroño and the musician Daniel Petruchelli, who set her poem “Elogio del camino” to music, taken at a performance at the Casa de los escritores (House of Writers) in Montevideo / Photos by Mar…
April 18, 2016Courtesy of the SARAS Institute Last month I had the marvelous opportunity, as a poet, of participating in the annual conference of an international scientific organization, the South American Instit…
November 17, 2015The image is central to most poets and poetry. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” the image is the poem. “His brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of dark…
