Jesse Nathan
Editor at McSweeney's
Eggtooth (fall '23 @PressUnbound) | poems in NYRB, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, APR, Fence | lecturer @ucbenglish | #ShortConvosWithPoets @mcsweeneys
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2 weeks ago |
mcsweeneys.net | Jesse Nathan
One of the things so compelling about Margaret Ross’s Saturday is her obsessive fidelity to a purity of description: “Beige clouds in a greenish sky / seen through cheap sunglasses.” To that, she adds an instability of syntax and line break that she makes into a thing of cool beauty.
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1 month ago |
mcsweeneys.net | Jesse Nathan
Derek Mong writes a poetry that’s part of a growing canon of fatherhood verse. Work made in the light of little children.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
mcsweeneys.net | Jesse Nathan
There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant memory, or the colors of the sky. Blue doesn’t really cut it, but most often it’s the best we have. Poems, then, are the last stop before silence. After that, the train goes beyond words, and often beyond any form of representation.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
mcsweeneys.net | Jesse Nathan
Mahmoud Darwish called clarity the greatest mystery. Matthew Zapruder writes poems that are precise in their architecture and mysteriously limpid in their meanings. And full of avowals, resistances to any final conclusiveness, open to—even when saddened by—the endless mutability of things. A mutability that seems to call up in him an energy of doubt, and because he seems at heart a poet of praise, there is a gorgeous melancholy to the pictures of the world he paints in words.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
mcsweeneys.net | Jesse Nathan
One of the many pleasures of Carol Moldaw’s seventh collection, Go Figure, is its fidelity to description. “Bulbous ropes of kelp,” begins the poem “Northern California.” “Sandstone sea-break cliffs” and “A bluff of salt-pocked Monterey cypresses / twisted in the same configuration, like ’50s teens, / the boys, with windblown ducktail flattops.” But that description is never quite an end in and of itself.
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