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Dismantling Wisdom: A Brief Conversation with Ed Bok Lee

Poet Ed Bok Lee discusses Whorled, his second collection, the past as sacred text, and poetry as the dismantler of wisdom.

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Stealing Fire for His Own Furnaces: Clayton Eshleman on Translation

This year alone, poet Clayton Eshleman has published co-translations of of work by Aimé Césaire, Bei Dao, and Bernard Bador. In his conversation with David Shook, he excavates his personal history to explain what draws him to Césaire and Vallejo, explains his Bei Dao project, and details his personal translation process.

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Opening Up Poetry: Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman on Wave’s Poetry in Translation

Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss Wave Books’ new focus on publishing poetry in translation, their upcoming Wave Books Poetry Days, and their own work as translators.

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Noelle Kocot on Tristan Corbière

Poet Noelle Kocot discusses her translations of French maudite Tristan Corbière, published as Poet by Default by Wave Books.

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Erica Mena Keeps Things Anomalous

Erica Mena discusses the grassroots ethos of Anomalous Press, what she admires about good translations, and the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Ben Lerner in Conversation with Cyrus Console

Console asks about “the historical Ben Lerner,” who both is and isn’t similar to his novel’s protagonist Adam Gordon.

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Bo Press’ Mini Books

Pat Sweet, founder and publisher of Bo Press, discusses her love for miniature books, her eclectic “dog’s breakfast” list of titles, and the miniature as object.

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Patchen: The Last Interview

This is the first in a series of poems, essays, stories, interviews, and other literary flotsam excerpted from small magazines and chapbooks from the last century. In 1967 Gene Detro interviewed poet Kenneth Patchen for what turned out to be the last time. That conversation appeared in a 1976 chapbook from Capra Press, and is now presented here, on Molossus.

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The Work We Haven’t Discovered Yet: A Conversation with the editors of Cerise Press

David Shook talks with Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Sally Molini, and Karen Rigby, the editors of Cerise Press, one of the most exciting online journals of world literature.

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Source Succor: A Conversation with Adam O’Riordan

Source Succor: A Conversation with Adam O’Riordan

Last week Adam O’Riordan won the Somerset Maugham Award for his debut collection In the Flesh. This week we converse about transatlantic poetry, sonnets, Silver Lake, and Mark Linkous’ suicide.

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A Trunk Full of Random T-Shirts: A Conversation with Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes discusses his debut collection, The Makings of You, his current projects, and contemporary Ghanaian literature.

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True Poets Don’t Belong to Any Country: Ilan Stavans on Latin American Poetry

“Journalists have a say on how the present ought to be read, historians offer us an interpretation of the past, and politicians entertain themselves with the future. But poets, I believe, have a more accurate, more intimate understanding of time: its sequence, its secrets. I wanted to look at Latin America through the eyes of these most articulate of witnesses.”

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