“Statement of a Refugee from Babel” by J. Kates

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Bigger Than They Appear
What was most terrible was knowing
We were all saying the same thing.

–J. Kates,
Bigger Than They Appear

 

Every Sunday until further notice, we’ll be posting a different poem from Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. Clocking in at 316 pages, BTT features 250 poems from 192 contemporary masters of the short free-form poem.

“There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection.”
-Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

J. KatesJ. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry in 1984 and a Translation Project Fellowship in 2006, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 1995. He is the translation editor of Contemporary Russian Poetry, and the editor of In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association, he is also the co-translator of three books of Latin American poetry, and has a chapbook of his own poems, Mappemonde (Oyster River).

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