A wonderful Romanian-American project put together by David Baker
(with contributions by over a dozen other Romanian and American poets and
translators, a special MARGENTO line-up included) now available on KENYON REVIEW ONLINE
after its release on print a few months ago from Aureole Press at the University of Toledo. A unique concept book with a
unique layout.
David Baker
N.B. We are pleased to be digitally republishing
this chapbook (seen in photos below) with the permission of the
publisher, authors, and translators. Hunger to Hunger
was
originally published in August 2012 by Aureole Press at the University
of Toledo in a limited edition of 75 copies. It was printed on a
Vandercook Simple Precision-15 press and features a unique
multi-signature, tri-fold design, Mohawk Superfine papers, and Tiziano
wrap-around covers. To purchase a fine press edition and learn more
about Aureole Press, click here. –The Editors
An Introduction
for Chris, who opened the door
Poems don’t begin. Poems continue.
A poet may sit with pen and paper, or a blue-faced computer screen,
and write that first word, but spinning in the poet’s head is a symphony
of sounds and impulses, and preceding that first textual mark is a
whole history of previous uses of that “first” word.
There are words before the first word. There are vast libraries before that first word.
Where does a poem begin? Each poem commences, has already commenced, in previous poems, just as it commences in a poet’s...
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