Dan Rosenberg‘s first book, The Crushing Organ, won the 2011 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and will be published in 2012. Recent poems have appeared in Jellyfish, Unstuck, and Gulf Coast. He is a PhD student at the University of Georgia and a co-editor of Transom.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2022
How I’ll Make It Better
Take this corn shooting up from a barrel. Take this rifle singing dire songs in your parents’ attic. Under someone else’s mask is a mouth wrapped around a clear vowel, […]
Sept/Oct 2022
Jobs I’ve Never Had
Husband to a bloom of box jellies. Conductor of a symphony for worms.
Winter 2013
What the Tapeworm Wants: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things
Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things, winner of Three Percent’s 2011 Best Translated Book Award, opens with a proem on the most abstract “thing” in the book: “A” begins, “A died. And didn’t die. Like his father / A, like his grandfather he drowned in the village graveyard.”
Spring 2012
Muscular Heaps: Yván Yauri’s Fire Wind
The title of Peruvian poet Yván Yauri’s second book, Viento de fuego, could be translated literally as Wind of Fire. For this translation, Yauri’s first into English, Marta del Pozo and Nicholas Rattner decided on Fire Wind—the punchier, less melodramatic, more suggestive option.
Winter 2012
Into the Foreign Tissue: Anja Utler’s engulf — enkindle
Translated by Kurt Beals. Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press, 2010. 93 pages. $14. engulf — enkindle, the English-speaking world’s introduction to contemporary German poet Anja Utler, is full of poems […]
Summer 2011
On Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook
Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson. University of Iowa Press: Iowa City, IA, 2010. 344 pages. $29.95. Most of us who teach poetry are just making it up as we go. We […]