Creve Coeur El saltamarti / The Tumbler

Creve Coeur El saltamarti / The TumblerRobert Fitterman Robert Fitterman's sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams's postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. Mirroring Paterson's structure page for page, Fitterman translates Williams's patchwork of local news stories, personal letters, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his

the twentieth century Peruvian whose poetics shattered the colonial (Spanish) tongue

" he writes

they are brave enough to go forward into the uncharted waters

we see how Warsh alters words

bog butter

her power & her skill so what kind of quest is it

and the possibilities of language itself

This is the first English-language collection of poetry by contemporary Russian poet

soms omvattend

Except for This Unseen Thread: Selected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Je leert me horen met jouw ogen en ik zie

has written an informative afterword about Vitale’s life and work