Considerations on the Death of a Dog (tr. Robert Bononno)
There was a time — I’m not sure how long it went on — when I lost interest. I simply forgot about him.
Hallucinatory Flights
Any sense of photography's miracle is largely passé, at least in theoretical circles; no one wants to be hoodwinked by the ...
Gaywyck
Gaywyck, the first book of the Gaywyck Trilogy, was first published in 1980. Touted as the first Gay Gothic novel, ...
Considerations on the Death of a Dog (tr. Robert Bononno)
There was a time — I’m not sure how long it went on — when I lost interest. I simply forgot about him.
The Lamentations of Morgana Neri
The Lamentations of Morgana Neri, Soprano, late of the Metropolitan Opera ...
Methylene Blue
I was sitting around in New York unemployed when the phone call came: my old friend Arno’s wife Mary, in tears. The story she told me was roughly this: Arno had gone to the South of France to help sail a yacht across the Atlantic. The boat
4 + 1 by Baudelaire (tr. Frank Guan)
Six years ago I began to translate, one by one, the poems of Baudelaire. It was the summer of 2007, and I had just turned twenty-one and completed a third year of college ...
New Poems
Brushing up against a body of water,
Her hand moves gently through the cool.
Though we stayed awhile,
We couldn't keep each other dry ...
The Chantorel Workshop: Artists and their Habits (tr. Robert Bononno)
His eyes half closed, his arms crossed and his head bent, he rose and returned to his seat unthinkingly, without abandoning the ecstatic torpor into which he had plunged. ...
Available Light
As a poet/translator/teacher my partner Richard Howard has more books than one can count.
Careful Now
Alma Vassov leans forward at her desk, intent, silent, chin resting on tightly clasped hands, unread term papers before her. Unseen, Luc’s postcard from France — small gray stone church ...
To This Day
From a mountain on a snow-sprinkled field
Every shade of coolness opened
An avenue falling different to the eye.
Stuck betwixt the blinking ships ...
Four by Stu Watson
He represses you to represent that which
Almost escapes imagination’s scope.
Thus, in an obvious allegory, he
Has kept you in a cage in a Cambridge suite,
Almost escapes imagination’s scope.
Thus, in an obvious allegory, he
Has kept you in a cage in a Cambridge suite,
