Copy Feast of the Ass

Copy Feast of the AssDolores Dorantes "Without the copying process," the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, "there would be no life, no reality." Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully syncopated, recursive texts, Copy is a prose poem sequence that insinuates an experience of violent removal: a person's disappearance from a country, from normal life, and forcible reintegration into a new social and existential configuration. This displaced, dispossessed

and Christian Wolff

They belong in the sequence between the John Adams and the Pisan cantos

Welish turns the lyric poem into a critical instrument with which to think about the writer’s calling

and what can be made to appear

At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother

The Men seeks to defamiliarize both who

and urban and wilderness environments

including maps from nineteenth-century New York and psy-ops leaflets dropped on Afghanistan after 9/11

Ghayath Almadhoun (trans

Een meisje snijdt zich aan een nepdiamanten piramide en werpt haar slangenvel van zich af

And sometimes I know the translator's simply talking about himself

— where when you’re back we’ll be having rice and pulses