Daniel Simon is a poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His most recent edited collection, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2020), was nominated for a 2020 Foreword INDIES Award.
Ghislaine Lejard, l’ombre (2020), 6.5 x 7.5 cm, torn paper glued on cardboard / Reproduced by permission of the artist
I tame shadows
each day I descend further into their world
and...
Photo by NCinDC / Flickr
He said:
Why must they destroy and destroy again?
Why must they forget my face my gestures my voice?
Why must they believe in my absence even as I stand in front of th...
Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
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Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008
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Lion fangs, bear claws,...
Antoni Tàpies, Porta metàl·lica i violí, 1956, 200 x 150 x 13 cm.
Back then I learned that the painter’sgesture contains both the movement of the planetand the blade of grass on the mountain...
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the narrator recounts three near-death experiences and his journey from Morocco to France. With nods toward Dostoevsky and Genet (echoing the Lazarus scene be...
Translator’s note: Roubaud wrote the first poem, “À cinq heures du soir” (itself a nod to Lorca’s famous “La cogida y la muerte”), about Warren Motte’s dog Lucy, who shared with her owner a g...