Forrest Gander - March 2, 2017

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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander reads widely from his translations from the Spanish, including poems by Coral Bracho, Alfonso D'Aquino, Pura López Colomé, Nezahualcóyotl, and Jaime Saenz. He also reads from his translations of Pablo Neruda's rediscovered works, published as Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems (2016).

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

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Opening Remarks
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"I sense the secret, the dark truth..."
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Differs from published version.

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Nezahualcóyotl. "Percibo lo secreto, lo oculto... / I sense the secret, the dark truth..." Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

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"The First Ballad"
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Gander, Forrest. "The First Ballad." Manoa, vol. 7, no. 1, Summer 1995, pp. 99-100.

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"Fronda / Frond"
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D'Aquino, Alfonso. Fungus skull eye wing: Selected poems of Alfonso D'Aquino. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

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Excerpts from Part 4: La Noche / The Night
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Saenz, Jaime. The Night. Trans. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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Excerpts from Part 4: La Noche / The Night (Continued)
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Saenz, Jaime. The Night. Trans. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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"Una luciérnaga bajo la lengua / Firefly under the Tongue"
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Bracho, Coral. Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho. Trans. Forrest Gander. New York: New Directions, 2008.

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"And the Intrepid Anthurium"
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López Colomé, Pura. Watchword. Trans. Forrest Gander. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.

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On Pablo Neruda's lost poems
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"Never alone, with you..."
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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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"'Don't be vain,' someone had scrawled..."
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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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"Marvelous ear..."
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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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"I rolled beneath hooves, the horses..."
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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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"Those two solitary men..."
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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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Question and Answer Session
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Forrest Gander
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Hannah Ensor
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