Issue 67 | June 2021
Conversations: Rone Shavers and Terese Svoboda
“The very idea of a container makes me itch to deconstruct it.”
On Kunwar Narain, “the Buddha of contemporary poetry”
Regardless of the genre of writing, the discourses and theories about translation hardly offer any help to the readers. The fundamental purpose of translating a work is to secure a…
The Lure of Antiquities
To think about antiquity is to think about time. It is an inevitable process. Ask yourself: what other way is there to describe how objects wear their histories? How else…
“They Tell Me Nothing’s Gone”: On Robert Lowell, Life Studies, and Recovery
By the time Robert Lowell started writing most of the poems in Life Studies, he had been hospitalized five times, mostly for acute mania, and all since the completion of…
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