Mary Custis Vezey in Harbin, 1920s A couple of days ago, on Twitter, I broke some splendid news about Vernon Duke. His memoir, Passport to Paris, which has been out of print since 1955, will be republished in 2025 by Paul Dry Books. The new edition will include my brief introduction and my translations of […]
“They Pursue Their Fabulous Dream”: A Late Californian Poem by Mary Custis Vezey
I’ve let two months go by without sharing a single thing here, which is very much unlike me. And there have been things to share, like fresh translations of Vernon Duke in Arc and of Julia Nemirovskaya in The Queens Review, as well as news about other projects, like my completion of Alexander Voloshin’s mock […]
“For Helping a Passerby”: Vladislav Ellis’s Hungry Years
Cover of “Captain” Mayne Reid’s The Headless Horseman Reading aimlessly had me feeling like a kid again, and it reminded me of this enchanting passage from Alexander Voloshin’s On the Tracks, in which he compares his fantasies of the American Wild West, derived from adventure stories, with the reality of an immigrant’s life in California. […]
“That Old Life of Ease”: Light Reading with Alexander Voloshin
Finish: 16.03.2024 Title: Poem: The Universe in 1300 Genre: Poetry Shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Trivia: #ReadingIrelandMonth24 @ 746Books Comment: I spent 2 hours trying to “crack this nut”. I looked everwhere and then something happened: …I read that Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is famous for using allusions from the bible, literature, …Greek […]
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