In memoriam: Antonio Tabucchi (24/09/1943-25/03/2012) They say he died yesterday of cancer and I thought no he didn’t because all his books are still on my shelves hugging me like a nest of sweet dreams and I thought no he didn’t because a few years ago a friend believed he had and I […]
Post-War Letters to My Grandmother
I was eight, maybe nine, every couple of months my parents made me sit at the big table —the living-room one, where only guests sat— to write a letter on air-mail paper as thin as rice paper to a grandmother I had not seen since we left for France five years earlier. I […]
On the Cusp / Albores / À l’orée – Seymour Mayne
On the Cusp / Albores / À l’orée Poems by Seymour Mayne Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación | Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2013 Translated from English to French by Sabine Huynh, and from English to Spanish by Maria Laura Spoturno. Este volumen de poesía trilingüe es el resultado de un proyecto […]
Ricochet Word Sonnets / Sonnets d’un mot – Seymour Mayne
Ricochet Word Sonnets – Sonnets d’un mot Poems by Seymour Mayne University of Ottawa Press / Presses de l’université d’Ottawa, 2011. Translated from English to French by Sabine Huynh. Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and […]
Waking Up Together
In the dead of night from black to blue to white faint bird notes fall one by one light nears from his heart to her hand thousands of kilometers of veins capillaries in crumpled bedsheets they’ve traveled years to get there a crow caws ahead of the alarm-clock her bloodflow the ticking […]
Farewell Childhood
It’s hard not to think of a place where dogs met their fate on railway tracks or in unkempt backyards where a father with chapped lips planted tulips around a dying cherry tree where a mother’s screams scared dust and kids into dark corners where children watched T.V. in the garage – why in […]