Ongoingness: Manguso, Didion, Woolf
The question of whether or not to keep a diary, or journal, is one that has perplexed me, on and off, for much of my adult life. If you do decide to keep a record of the everyday,… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Poems for staying at home (Day 29)Today Piedad Bonnett sings the praises of the oft-neglected sea cucumber. I once spent so long trying to find her house in Bogotá, in a taxi with Jorge Fondebrider and a clueless driver, that she thought we’d been... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 28)Now, listen: do not go roaming with the possum. Is that perfectly clear? from A Somewhat Difficult Syntax The possum represents those who craved the Holy Word, but who, once they have received it, do nothing... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 27)Today – because ‘it’s the only thing the universe knows how to do’ – a poem about falling, from Argentina’s Beatríz Vignoli. I love the particularity of these lines: ‘If they tell you that I fell / don’t... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 26)The theft of a rooster prompts today’s poem from the Venezuelan Igor Barreto; a lament for a creature who ‘sings like the Angel Gabriel’. The poem can be found, along with 155 others, in The Other Tiger:... Read More
- Poems for staying at home (Day 25)Carlos López Beltrán is the author of one of the most haunting poems in our anthology, The Other Tiger: as the speaker travels by train through the German forest, he has a vision of the son he never... Read More
Ricardo Blanco, Citizen of Nowhere
