Stephen Collis, "Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face"
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Al Filreis convened Pattie McCarthy, Kate Colby, and Lily Applebaum to talk about a poem by Stephen Collis that appeared in his book, A History of the Theories of Rain, published by Talonbooks in Vancouver in 2021. The poem is titled “Yes I Do Want to Punch” — and perhaps should be called “Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face,” proceeding to its key first line. Our recording of Collis performing the poem comes from a video he made just for PoemTalk, and it is available on his PennSound page.
October 18, 2021
Toward a poetry and poetics of the Americas (34)
Diocelina Restrepo, 'What the Great Armadillo Said in Dreams to Me'
Narrated by Diocelina Restrepo, Yukpa People, Sokorpá, Colombia
Assembled and translated by Javier Taboada after Anne Goletz’s research
From Rothenberg and Taboada, the big book of the Americas, now in progress
“our food, the worm
“is among you
“we suffer, for our land has been burned