“me and pablo neruda in corsica” (1964)
I have been working on a translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s El nino mudo, what I am loosely translating as The voiceless boy. On doing some research on Federico I discovered that in 1933 he met Pablo Neruda in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later, in Madrid, 1934, he […]
The Chinese Baiji Dolphin was declared extinct this week. The Week Magazine briefly noted:
“Goddess goes extinct” (Yangtze River, China) The Baiji, a freshwater dolphin know as the “goddess of the Yangtze,” is extinct, scientists said this week. The latest search of the river produced no sightings of the species, which lived in the […]
I wrote this poem back on December 19, 2006 under the title “a pretty piece of flesh, i.” The title really had nothing to do with the poem except that it came from a line in Romeo and Juliet I liked and probably had hopes of using it somehow in the poem. Oh […]
This is a repost of an older sonnet I wrote in the beginning of the summer. My friend Stephanie Dominique, from Las Vegas, wrote to me saying she enjoyed it. I tried tightening up some lines and added music in the background, I don’t know if it worked (earlier experimenting with music drowned […]