NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new

Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new translations of Rumi as “the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text

Let's Become Fungal

the poem hints at the isolated prospect of relations running counter to accumulation

” With her signature incisive perspective

The version in this volume first appeared in A Very Original Book

NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s newFrom the press: I thanked the man and left the store and confetti fell slowly inside my heart. Ben is adrift. A fact checker at a New York gossip magazine, he is well versed in the breezy cruelty that makes the modern world go and yet hopelessly drawn to the wonders that world continues to turn up. The hypnotic asymmetry of escalators. A perfectly chilled water fountain. The essential freedom of dogs. Into the stream of this private joy steps a young