I am working on this poem, first published in Dyn 3 (1942), and I discovered that Jean Piero set it to music in 2023. It is amazing. Jean Piero Díaz Ruiz is in Lima, and he writes poetry as well.
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Reviews of The Equestrian Turtle
We’re getting reviewed! There’s a long piece in Full Stop and a shorter review in Action Books. The Chicago Review wants you to review it. And I discovered an amazing site, Surrealist NYC, that’s an inspiring resource. Are there other reviews of LTE, that I haven’t found yet?
César Moro at LASA
I presented on César Moro’s poetry at the May, 2025 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in San Francisco, and read from our new translation. I am interested in the ways Moro’s speakers construct a dialogue between self and other, self and world. There is something specific, perhaps Joycean, in the way he works …
Reading at NOPF
Esteban Quispe and I read from our translation of The Equestrian Turtle at the New Orleans Poetry Festival on April 12, 2025. “When you appear the air is immobilized and cruelty armed to the teeth becomes adorable like the plumage of the millenarian birds reflected in your eyes.” This is a line from “Archaic Reflections …
The Equestrian Turtle
Our translation of Peruvian Surrealist César Moro’s collection The Equestrian Turtle is due out from Cardboard House Press in April, 2025. You can pre-order your copy from Asterism Books. César Moro (Lima, Peru, 1903-1956) was a poet, painter and art critic, and a central figure in the transatlantic avant-gardes of the twentieth century. Living in …
Reading January 8, 2021
Pedro Granados and I will be reading from Amerindios Friday, January 8, at 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, as part of the Jamaica Pond Poets series Chapter and Verse. CHAPTER AND VERSE LITERARY READING SERIES Friday, January 8, 2021, 7:30 pm Poetry in Spanish and Translations INTO ENGLISH AND INTO MUSIC Pedro Granados, Lima, Perú, Ph.D. …
Poetry by Pedro Granados
With Sasha Reiter and Isaac Goldemberg I translated recent work by Pedro Granados. The book is Amerindios, and it is available now. This is one of the more successful translations, I think: To see someone ageLike a style, like a songLike a movie that at the exitLeft you remains of inspirationStrength prideIsn’t nearly what you’ll …
Dordor Gallery
My cousin Ilya Fedorov has opened a gallery in Brooklyn, the Dordor Gallery. He exhibits and sells his own and other painting, and rents studio space. There is a café, an event venue and more. Artists who join receive a series of benefits. The gallery mirrors and takes up the work it had done in …
Amerindios/Amerindians
Eminent Peruvian-American writer Isaac Goldemberg, poet Sasha Reiter and I have translated a book of poetry by Pedro Granados, forthcoming 2020 from Artepoética Press in New York. The volume includes work from two prior collections, Roxosol and Activado. I’ll be reading from it at the New Orleans Poetry Festival April 19. Update: The Poetry Festival …
Turquoise plate
This is decorative but can be used for serving, too. When I glazed it I was thinking of Persian work. I would like to create a still more Persian blue.
Leslie Bary Arts and Letters 