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PAUL E NELSON

Baler Reviews Haibun de la Serna

Baler Reviews Haibun de la Serna

I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am with Pablo Baler’s review of my latest book Haibun de la Serna in the new edition of Exacting Clam. He was the person who introduced me to the work of Ramón Gómez de la Serna, saying my American Sentences...
COVID-19 Sonnet

COVID-19 Sonnet

Since the beginning of 2019 I have been writing “prose sonnets” Matt Trease calls them. 14 line prose poems often with an epigraph and sometimes three. I saw the form first in the work of Jack Clarke, who was at SUNY-Buffalo for many years and felt I had...

José Kozer Interview

This past January 18 and 19 (2015) I had the great pleasure of going to Hallendale Beach, Florida, and having access to the great Cuban-American poet José Kozer in the home he shares with his wife Guadalupe. I packed some short sleeve shirts, escaped Seattle winter,...

Jerome Rothenberg Nov 2001 Interview

In the first part of a November 2001 interview, Jerome Rothenberg discussed his early introduction to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca’s use of the word duende, a kind of Spanish troll or fairy which Lorca used as a kind of force in which the...