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JD Larson
JD LARSON is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn. His published and ongoing translations are principally of the Austrian writer Friederike Mayrocker, author of études. Selections have appeared in Asymptote Journal, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, and Kadar Koli, He teaches in the German Department at NYU.
Excerpts from Nioque
by Francis Ponge, translated from the French by JD Larson | forthcoming from Red Dust, 2017Country house, one long single ground floor, facing the south. Preserved by some outbuilding forming perpendicular garlic, to the right.
from études
by Friederike Mayröcker, translated from the German by JD LarsonFriederike Mayröckers work has been to live and to write, continually and daringly exploding the limitations of language. Her collection études, published in 2013 by Suhrkamp, is a poem arranged by date, spanning 14.3.11 (or 3/14/11) to 16.12.12 (or 12/16/12).
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