The Formality of Nostalgia: On Boris Dralyuk’s “My Hollywood and Other Poems”
Art Beck considers “My Hollywood and Other Poems” by Boris Dralyuk.
Art Beck is a poet, essayist, and translator with a number of university and small press journal credits, as well as volumes of both original poetry and translations from the late 1970s onward. His Opera Omnia or, a Duet for Sitar and Trombone — versions of the sixth-century CE North African Roman poet Luxorius, published by Otis Books — won the 2013 Northern California Book Award for translated poetry. Mea Roma, a 130-some poem “meditative sampling” of Martial’s epigrams was published by Shearsman Books in 2018. The Insistent Island, an Odyssey-themed original poetry chapbook, was published by Paul Vangelisti's Magra Books in 2019. From 2009 through 2012, he was a twice yearly contributor to Rattle since discontinued e-issues with a series of essays on translating poetry under the byline The Impertinent Duet.
Art Beck considers “My Hollywood and Other Poems” by Boris Dralyuk.
Art Beck considers Dana Gioia’s portraits of Elizabeth Bishop and John Cheever.
Art Beck is enchanted by “The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice,” a Greek epic translated by A. E. Stallings.
Art Beck meditates on the nature of the Latin epigram and offers his translations of Martial.