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Forrest Gander is the editor of Mouth to Mouth: 12 Contem- porary Mexican Women, a bilingual anthology (Milkweed Editions, 1993), and the author of four poetry books, most recent of which is
Science & Steepleflower from New Directions.
A critic as well as a poet and translator, his essays appear in The Nation, The Boston Review, Bloomsbury Review, The Boston Book Review, and The Providence Journal, among other places. Currently he is at work translating books by Mexican poet Pura Lopez Colome and, with Kent Johnson, Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz.
With C.D. Wright, Forrest co-edits the literary book press
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uncircumcised of heart unto your body's landscape, marvelous, its lean parts straining to become visible at the start of a concentration that would impose itself like a forehead against a rough wall. Nor is that all that can be said. The thinnest emerald and red motes drift slantwise through this startling light, expose the possibility I might well hold it in my mouth and speak it to you, enter your dark with my tongue, the Palestine of your mysteries which increase like a sum of our breath. My reader looks over my shoulder as I write.
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Chapbook Selections:
From Science & Steepleflower
Landscape with Man Being Killed by a Snake
from "Life of Johnson Upside Your Head,"
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