"On Jorie Graham’s [To] the Last [Be] Human"
"Driven by this imperative, but helpless to respond to it, these poems become decayed portents of an already manifesting futurity. They respond to this ongoing crisis only in the ways they always already have, i.e., they continue failing—not in an aesthetic sense (they are among Graham’s most exciting poems) but in their attempt to alter the future."
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Boris Dralyuk on Julia Nemirovskaya's "Verse"
"'Verse,' by the Russophone American poet Julia Nemirovskaya (whose surname, it occurs to me, might share an origin with Nemerov’s in the town of Nemyriv, Ukraine), spoke to me straight away, as Julia’s poems always do. I’ve been translating her work for over a decade now, developing a vocabulary in English that isn’t quite mine and isn’t quite hers (how could it be, since she writes in Russian?) but is very much ours." |
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