The Empire State
In the mustard
asthma,
the mannerist
skyscraper:
a banner of
flypaper,
much-clustered,
plasma.
Aaron Poochigian
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Aaron Poochigian
@Poochigian
Poet. Poems in @parisreview, @POETRY, @BestAmPo; published by W.W. Norton and Penguin. Yes, I did wind up with a PhD. Rep: NYCreative.
- I think of "Hwæt!" (the opening word of "Beowulf") as the first word of English literature. Scholars write articles on what it might mean. If you were translating "Beowulf," how would you capture "Hwæt!" in our English?
- "American Osiris," the best poem I have ever written, is now up @SmallOrangePoem: smallorangejournal.com/aaron-poochigi… Check it out!
- Only after I had come apart utterly and was nothing, did I start to turn my private boneyard into art.
- For me, being a writer means always being afraid that I will never be able to write well again. Anyone else feel the same way?
- Fuck you Republicans and your "trickle down" economics! Only stupid (or greedy) people think that shit works. #FuckTrickleDown
- The Pestilence Here in America: old masks, miasma. We live for futures, for survivors’ plasma. A televangelist prescribes cayenne, while in the Old World a Medieval menace depopulates Milan, Verona, Venice. The Pope has blessed an empty square. Amen. . .
- This is actually something, and that something is three blocks from my apartment. American culture is its own special weird thing. "O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light. . ." "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. . ."
- In Desperation . . . What else could I do but put myself in a poem and launch it across the nation in the hope that recitation would land me on your lips? #CoronaUpdate
- The trailer for the Baudelaire Book! youtube.com/watch?v=NltgTS… Hear my voice! See the beauty! Check it out! The director Katie Rainey is a genius!
- Today, 2020 O, Lord, believe me, I am with them, my friends the losers, the defeated. I stomp out an anarchic rhythm, a consolation that is needed. . .
- I just got a book-deal with @wwnorton to translate Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil"! Time for a quarantine party! "You, reader, know this tender freak of freaks— hypocrite reader—fellowman—my twin!"
- Love in a Time of Contagion I, with my bad luck, started to pursue you just a week before the quarantine. Now you’re alluring phrases on a screen, and all I think about is getting through. . . #QuarantineLove
- My Baudelaire made the list of the best of 2021! @Pete__SimonLooking back on our favorite translated books of 2021: bit.ly/3oTqE0j
