11/02/2011
Geoffrey Brock
Epitaph for a Dead President

Here he lies no more,
But tells the truth at last,
The whole truth, in the clipped
Green syllables of the grass.

BIO:

Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light, the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections, and the editor of the forthcoming FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry. Currently a Howard Foundation Fellow, he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas.
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