Poeta e professor, nascido em 1950 em Nova Iorque, onde vive, é uma das principais forças das letras norte-americanas. Autor de vários livros de poesia e de crítica literária, é o co-fundador e co-editor de PennSound, o maior arquivo de leituras de poetas do mundo todo e do pioneiro Electronic Poetry Center. No Brasil, publicou o livro Histórias da guerra em 2008. Para ele, “a poesia é alguma coisa em longo prazo”. Nome de alcance mundial, ele afirma que o melhor suporte para sua poesia é o diálogo: “Tenho tido a sorte, desde quase o primeiro momento, de contar com bons companheiros”.
Eu ouço o gemido da democracia, no dia da eleição. As ruas estão cheias de promessas falsas, no dia da eleição. Os canalhas votam, os santos votam, no dia da [...]
I hear democracy weep, on election day. The streets are filled with brokered promise, on election day. The miscreant’s vote the same as saint’s, on election day. The dead unleash [...]
The tension between universality and locality is not simply a deformation or an embryonic phase of group consciousness to be shed at maturity. As against the positive expressivity of nation [...]
The Conscience of a Conservative I deregulate you deregulate he/she/it deregulates we deregulate you deregulate they profit A consciência de um conservador Eu desregulo Tu desregulas Ele/ela desregula Nós [...]
Leslie Scalapino’s Rhythmic Intensities Scalapino Memorial Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church New York, June 21, 2010 The poet dies, the poet’s work is borne by her readers. When [...]
Samuel Greenberg "Strangeness was becoming an awe of interest" — "Between Historical Life" (p. 110, 1947 edn.) "O what I would give for the knowledge of grammatic truth" —"Between Historical [...]
It seemed to me that Ziquing Zhang’s questions provided both an incisive commentary on my poems and also raised a set of imponderble yet giddy, not to say fundamental, translation [...]
“The Kingfishers” is both thrilling and exasperating, inspiring and challenging. The date of its composition has become as emblematic as anything in the poem: 1949. Just four years after the [...]
1.1. The Romanic Portuguese The Portuguese language, which evolved from spoken Latin, developed on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula (now Portugal and the Spanish province of Galicia) included [...]
Resumen ejecutivo En diciembre del 2008 se cumplirán 10 años desde la elección de Hugo Chávez como presidente de Venezuela. El Presidente Chávez fue elegido con el compromiso de reformar [...]