Jesse Lee Kercheval
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. Her latest poetry collections include America that island off the coast of France, winner of the Dorset Prize, and the bilingual Spanish–English La crisis es el cuerpo / The Crisis is The Body, published in Argentina by Editorial Bajo la luna. Her latest poetry book, I Want to Tell You, will be published in spring 2023 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Reading List
Coronillas
Two bones, white, in an open field. A horse’s pelvis. A long, broken leg bone. In the distance, brown hills. Around the bones, three horses crop the long grass. Behind them a circle of spiky coronillas, thorny trees that grow so slowly it has taken them four hundred years to stand slightly taller than the […]
Drown
There are docks but they are underwater. There are ducks and they are drowning too. There are bookstores and the books float up, ink pooling on the surface. The house where you grew up is at the bottom of the river, the school where you learned to write at the bottom of the ocean, the […]