Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator /writer with degrees in geology and literature, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, Guggenheim, and US Artists Foundations. His book Twice Alive (New Directions, 2021) focuses on human and ecological intimacies. In October 2024, New Directions will bring out Gander’s long poem on the desert, Mojave Ghost.
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Susan Barba’s Radical Gambit
The subtle, magical legerdemain by which, in her new poems, Susan Barba merges subjectivity with the nonhuman has not only aesthetic but also ethical implications. If the current human-generated ecological […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Carried Across
Through vidrio, a riot of birdsong. Whose face the stranger? High cheek bones, stout chin, skin the color of cantaloupe rind. How continuous, erosions in my grammar. Long negra-azul hair […]