This small yet rewarding tour de force takes the reader through such topics as long vs. short forms in poetry; the cathartic and disruptive aspects of teaching poetry (and poetry in translation, of which this reader, at least, would have loved to hear more); U.S. writing programs and workshop pedagogies; and money, or the “conceptual moneys of poetry,” as the author intriguingly puts it. Ultimately, Machado’s sharp and spirited prose will show readers that the end of reading, like the end of poetry, is that there is no end.—Graziano Krätli, Rain Taxi
This pamphlet is part of UDP’s 2020 Pamphlet Series: twenty commissioned essays on collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing. The pamphlets are available for individual purchase and as a subscription. Each offers a different approach to the pamphlet as a form of working in the present, an engagement at once sustained and ephemeral.—Ugly Duckling Presse website
