The Globe and Mail asked five of this year’s nominees about the poetry they are currently enjoying
. The poems in the selection cover three decades of Vestrini’s work from 1960 to 1990 and are translated by different translators. Vestrini’s unique voice is firmly engraved in each line: in an elegy of one of her closest friends, she writes, ‘he died like an idiot / of a heart attack treated with chamomile tea.
. Ocean Vuong’s dog, Susan, was on her way to her own funeral when he facilitated her escape: Well done! From Roger Reeves I learned about the tongue, in particular a parasitic crustacean that attaches itself to the tongues of spotted rose snappers and extracts blood until the tongue atrophies and falls off. I now equate Karl Marx with brightly lit windows overflowing with lingerie thanks to Robyn Creswell’s translations of one of Iman Mersal’s poems from the Arabic.
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