Comparative Literature
While working on a translation, I need to break off to mark some student work. The last piece of writing that I have been translating starts like this: The boy approaches the house. A pathway of larches. Leaves…. Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Poems for staying at home (Day 35)Let’s spare a thought for the beach poets, that ‘handful of geniuses’ who hang out on the sands, ‘making poetry with the waves’. Like the Dominican poet Frank Báez, perhaps, whose poetry does more than merely... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 34)“This is the time of the killers.” Today’s poem is in tribute to George Floyd, and in support of Black Lives Matter. Palimpsest from Rimbaud I am writing over words written On the skin of other words.... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 33)Bunnies and top hats, David Lynch and the dark reverberations of down the rabbit hole; all of this explored by the inimitable Pedro Serrano in this quarantine poem, first published in The Other Tiger. The Rabbit and... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 32)Today’s poem: a perfect study in stillness, by the Mexican poet Coral Bracho. Goats In the whiteness and its nucleus of light the goats stand stock-still. Gently the rock holds them in its palm; like a... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 31)As we find ourselves in June, two bumblebees, observed by the Mexican poet Pura López Colomé, hover over ‘rose coloured leaves / from a flower that is not a rose.’ And the Anthurium, Undaunted Two bumblebees... Read More
Ricardo Blanco, Citizen of Nowhere
