Geoffrey Brock is the author of two collections of poetry, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes of Italian poetry and prose, including Last Dream: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, forthcoming from World Poetry Books. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas and edits The Arkansas International (arkint.org).
He cut it from a hedge—the breaking day sad but not cold—and turning, he began to […]