In my role as coeditor of the Empyrean Series I have worked to published many lesser-known works of world literature. These include major works by Kathleen Tankersley Young, James Thomson, Jean Paul, Thomas De Quincey, Miguel de Unamuno, Walter Savage Landor, and the early modern writers Jeremy Taylor, Antonio de Guevara, and Nicholas Breton. And many more authors too numerous to list here. Check out the catalogue at that link above! The Empyrean Series books are recognizable at a glance by their bright red covers. Under slightly different circumstances, I co-edited the complete poems of Marguerite Young.
My book-length translations include the poetry collection Tentacular Cities (1895) by the Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren and a handful of books by the contemporary writer Pierre Senges (b. 1968), such as The Major Refutation, Geometry in the Dust, Falstaff: Apotheosis, Studies of Silhouettes, and Rabelais’s Doughnuts. Another Senges book I had a hand in, as co-translator with Tegan Raleigh, was Ahab (Sequels) (Contra Mundum, 2021). All of these books are available from the US distributor Asterism Books.
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Here are links to a few critical essays and a translation of mine you probably won’t find anywhere else.
Paul Metcalf: His Life and Works. 60-page article with a critical bibliography of interviews, reviews, etc. Metcalf (1917–1999) was a great poet from Massachussets noted for working in a documentary or collage vein with early American texts. This article was originally published with minor differences in the American writers series of literary biographies formerly published by Scribner’s.)
A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance. Famous, typographically unusual long poem (1898) by French writer Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by myself. (Many different versions of this poem have been published in English translation.)
An -Ism of One’s Own. A review of Writers by Antoine Volodine, originally published in the online journal The Quarterly Conversation around 2014.
Césaire at Mid-Century. A review of three English editions of Aimé Césaire’s books, originally published in the online journal The Quarterly Conversation, 2014.
