Deborah Garfinkle is a poet, writer and translator based in San Francisco. Her literary work has appeared in the US and abroad. Her last book, Worm-Eaten Time, translations from the work of Czech poet Pavel Šrut, was published in 2016 by Phoneme Media.
Spring 2016
Stories of Forgotten Dreams: Ryan MacDonald’s The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Ryan MacDonald’s haunting collection of stories, The Observable Characteristics of Organisms, introduces us to a terrible, yet miraculous world where the lines between the animal and human kingdoms are inexorably blurred
Fall 2015
Conquering the Conqueror: Heriberto Yépez’s The Empire of Neomemory
On September 16, 2014, “post-Mexican” writer, critic, psychotherapist, and literary provocateur Heriberto Yépez announced to the world that, after twenty years of work on his “writing project,” “it can be said that Heriberto Yépez’s oeuvre has concluded” and that the “young man” who was Heriberto Yépez has “gone” forever.
Winter 2015
In the Belly of the Baobab: Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
One night almost thirty years ago, I attended a benefit reading for South Africa organized in conjunction with the fortieth-anniversary PEN world Congress.
Fall 2014
A Life and Death of Her Own: Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary: (A Tale)
As I write this, it is eighty years since writer Marcelle Sauvageot lost her battle with tuberculosis at the young age of thirty-three in a sanatorium in the spa town of Davos, Switzerland.