The Native Mountain, Roberto Echavarren, trans. Don Wellman and Roberto Echavarren. In The Virgin Mountain, the great Uruguayan poet, novelist and essayist, Roberto Echavarren, continues his investigation of twenty-first century modernity, this time in the context of desire and the natural world. Drawing from theorists and philosophers like Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as […]
Albiach / Celan / Reading Across Languages (Annex 2017).Albiach / Celan / Reading Across Languages. Echavarren’s The Espresso Between Sleep and Waking, translated by the author and myself has been released by Card Board House 2016. Neila, Evening Song: Last Poems of Yvan Goll has been released by Spuyten Duyvil 2016. Roman Exercises is also a new release (Talisman […]
My poetics stem from early studies of the works of Ezra Pound and Charles Olson. Before that I had concentrated on Anglo-Saxon and other archaic texts. I was spellbound by lyric poetry, especially in German, sometimes in French, as well as in English. I have taught “modernism” in the arts as well as in literature. […]
Donald Wellman is a poet and translator. As editor of O.ARS, he produced a series of annual anthologies including Coherence (1981) and Translations: Experiments in Reading (1984). He has translated books of poetry by Antonio Gamoneda, Emilio Prados, Yvan Goll, and Roberto Echavarren. Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages is forthcoming (Spring 2017) from Annex Press. […]
