After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

<h4>Michael Leong is the author of two volumes of poetry, e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), as well as a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). He currently lives in Durham and teaches in the low res B.F.A. Program at Goddard College. He will join the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY as an Assistant Professor in August. </h4>

Michael Leong

After Translation

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Michael Leong is the author of two volumes of poetry, e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), as well as a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). He currently lives in Durham and teaches in the low res B.F.A. Program at Goddard College. He will join the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY as an Assistant Professor in August.