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Today's poem is "Snowflak"
from Unsun

Coach House Books

Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry volumes Videotape, Petals of Zero Petals of One, Anabranch, and By Reason of Breakings, as well as four books in France. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere. With fellowships from the NEA, Centre National du livre, and French Voices, he translated Sébastien Smirou's My Lorenzo and See About. Zawacki also edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 and edited and co-translated Ale? Debeljak's Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems. A recent Howard Foundation Poetry Fellow, he is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He currently lives in Watkinsville, Georgia.

Other poems by Andrew Zawacki in Verse Daily:
December 24, 2009:   "Untitled" "Or the dance we do is..."

Books by Andrew Zawacki:

Other poems on the web by Andrew Zawacki:
Three poems
Two poems
"Otherearthly Sonnet"
"Videotape: 51"

Andrew Zawacki According to Wikipedia.

About Unsun:

"Here is a language of dizzying swerves and connections, open at the borders, even to bilingual puns. "
—Rosmarie Waldrop

"In Unsun, a book of miraculous accounting, we are invited from the subtitle onward to consider not only the idea of the sharpest image -- which f/11 might provide -- but also how the information that images conduct ranges. The work beckons with a multiply-stated question -- how close can you get? As the world moves in the poems and the writing multiplies, we're drawn to the materials and processes that verge throughout, that edge up -- with something next to a child's voice -- into this indexing of near kisses and satellite navigations. Unsun tracks -- or endeavors, terrifyingly and beautifully, to track -- 'what is never not touching us. '"
—C. S. Giscombe



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