A Tonalist

Feature: A Tonalist poetry

105 printed pages, in Jacket 40

John Tranter

What is A Tonalist? The short answer is that it is in some (uncomfortable) way related to lyric, retaining doubt about the possibility of engaging in and with that vexed genre … As you read these poems, you can watch as place is found, made, questioned, left and reasserted … There is also a lot of sex and a huge number of amazing verbs … (from Laura Moriarty’s Introduction)

[»»] Laura Moriarty: A Tonalist Where (and What) Art Thou?
[»»] Taylor Brady: Maps, Jokes and Heavy Armor
[»»] Julian T. Brolaski: Five poems
[»»] Norma Cole: from “More Facts”
[»»] Brent Cunningham: A Note on the A Tonalist
[»»] Jean Daive: “A Woman with Several Lives,” Tr. Norma Cole
[»»] Ray DiPalma: Obloquium and Committer of Tidings: Seven poems
[»»] Dolores Dorantes: from “Dear Factory” translated by Jen Hofer

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Charles Bernstein

•"The Tugboat and the Quayle," Literary Activism, with video
•Enclave series Zoom reading, July 26 2020, introduction by Rae Armantrout: YouTube
•Tonya Foster, erica kaufman, and Tracie Morrie discuss "There's a Hole in My Pocket" with Al Filries (ModPo): YouTube (2020)

Clayton Eshleman & the Practice of Translation: A Tribute

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[The following is an essay I wrote in the course of judging the 2007 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for the Academy of American Poets. It was originally published by the Academy in American Poet, volume 35, Fall 2008, but never appeared in Jacket2. At this later stage in his life (and mine), I’m posting it here, along with a poem of Eshleman’s that shows the intensity of his relation to Cesar Vallejo in the course of his Vallejo translations as a life’s work. (j.r.)]