The Panjandrum of Pints proverbs “Wisdom calls out in the street, She lifts her voice on the square and the level” to Pepkin who replies, When I was a child I smelt as a child could taste the difference between green and blue – “How long will fools hate knowledge?” I …
See Emily Stay
“I must go in for the fog is rising” – that fog’s not real! just Sandburg and his cats working up a steam, pumping the bellows on his fog machine – wait’ll you see his Big Shoulders! Don’t go in when you haven’t really come out yet, stay for a spell, still time to try …
Because No Fable Makes the Apples Cry
On the other side of our sun hovers another sun, this one entirely black. Beyond the black sun on the other side of our sun, orbits another earth, this one entirely orange. And on that orange earth beyond the black sun on the other side of our sun, everyone stands in the same river infinitely …
The Summer That Departs
Summer 1939, even the radio starts to sweat in Pepkin’s family’s room above the Shotwell’s, below the Westcott’s arched eyebrows on the 12th, and backed off the beach well enough to stall every breeze off Brighton, as Philco’s eleven tubes glower Red the Hour at the Sanhedrin and the Field of Blood …
Translation by Jedediah Smith: How To Make Verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky
My first book-length translation is now available: How To Make Verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, available as a paperback from Amazon (kindle version coming soon). From the book's description: Vladimir Mayakovsky remains one of the most powerful voices in Russian literature and twentieth century poetry. Written in 1926, How To Make Verse stands as his major …
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