Marianne Boruch is an American poet and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Axon and elsewhere. Her eleventh collection, Bestiary Dark, resulted from her observations of Australian wildlife while a 2019 Fulbright Scholar hosted by International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. Among her honours are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller’s Bellagio Centre, MacDowell, Yaddo, The American Academy in Rome, and Denali and Isle Royale national parks.
Masterclass for Henry Kramer
Two hours or so,his jacket too small,a piano nerdhe says of himself.Is he amusedby his own caption?Because the mask,the covid mask…I’m not really the secretI look to be either.Behind mine, you can’t tellmy mouth mightbe ready…