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Michael Palencia-Roth is a poet, translator, critic, and professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois. One of his specialties, upon which he has written extensively, is [...]

Here was a sea a million years ago. Man does not know this, but the stone remembers. Break it: there is a crab in its guts, all stone now, a magnificent shape that refused to be dust. Before the [...]

Stone upon stone the earth seeks the sky. Step by step my soles ascend to the sun. The hot coal of life still beats in my chest and idle now is the stone knife among these stones. If you are all [...]