JUN 01 | Neruda translator interviewed

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Noon
Bibliocracy Radio
KPFK 90.7 FM
access webcast via the bibliocracy blogspot


Andrew Tonkovich of KPFK radio in Los Angeles has prepared a one-hour interview that features World’s End, William O’Daly's final book of translation of Pablo Neruda; a two-part essay O’Daly published in 2006 titled “A Winter’s Sun: Writing Against Torture”; and some of his own poetry.

With World’s End, work written by Pablo Neruda in 1968 and 1969, O’Daly has now published eight translations of the late and posthumous poetry of Neruda, as well as a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry for Still Another Day, the first of his Neruda series. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, with coauthor Han-ping Chin, set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Copper Canyon Press

Big Drink

Big Drink by Crawdad Nelson
2009, 24th street irregular press
5.5" X 8.5", 32 pages.
$5.00

24th street irregular press seems to spend an inordinately large amount of time making miniature books of poetry under its Poems-For-All imprint. But they've been know to put out the occasional larger-sized chapbook now and then.

Big Drink presents an impressive collection of poems by Sacramento poet Crawdad Nelson. "For raw power and freshness of language," writes author Bill Pieper, "nobody outdoes Crawdad Nelson in crafting poems that interweave the natural world with the human psyche and vice-versa. This guy has a gift."

In addition to the title poem, Big Drink, the chap puts together for the first time his popular poems I Get the Impression the World is Made of Roses (previously published in miniatures as part of the Poems-For-All Series) and Bigfoot is Continuous.

Copies are available at The Book Collector in Sacramento, CA or email me here if you're out of the area and would like me to mail you a copy