Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of poetry! We’re joined by poet Heather Green to discuss her new poetry collection, No Other Rome. Heather will be in conversation with Emily Holland, poet and Editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal.
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Heather Green‘s poetry collection No Other Rome is forthcoming in 2021 (Akron Poetry Series, Akron UP). Her writing has appeared in AGNI, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Everyday Genius, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the translator of Tristan Tzara’s Noontimes Won (Octopus Books, 2018) and Guide to the Heart Rail (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2017). Her translations of Tzara’s work have appeared in Asymptote, Open Letters Monthly, Poetry International, and several anthologies. Green is an Assistant Professor in the InterArts program of the School of Art at George Mason University.
About the Book
In No Other Rome, the title’s “o”s are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae, apertures through which we view the past or future. The poems in this collection engage contemporary art and Modern literature, alongside texts from Classical Greece and Rome, in an embodied, intertextual worry. The poems ask what lasts–“please last”–and what might be the last (or, with an “o,” “lost,”) “time,” “auk,” or “breath” as we move away from twentieth-century concerns into an unpredictable future. When there is no Planet B, no other Troy to burn, these elegies, love poems, and meditations seek a song that could “in singing, change the seen.”