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Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He lives in Chicago.

Articles by Daniel Borzutzky

Literary Awards, Translation, Writer Opportunities

Sunday August 18

On Translating Raúl Zurita

Zurita knew from firsthand experience what it was like to be imprisoned under the dictatorship. One of the poems in “The Country of Planks” is named after the Maipo Cargo Ship, where Zurita was incarcerated on the very morning of September 11, 1973, the day of the military coup in Chile