ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF A PROPHYLACTIC GEMSTONE IN A POEM BY ELIZABETH BISHOP
By Len Krisak
“Booze flows. Sometimes, the verse aborts / Itself; sometimes, she can’t tell if it’s rye or / Gin that’s soaked her in its thwarting mist.”
Len Krisak
Len Krisak’s most recent books are a translation of Prudentius’s Crown of Martyrs and a translation of The Aeneid (2020, from Hackett). With work in the Sewanee, Hudson, PN, Antioch, and Southwest Reviews, he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Frost prizes and a four-time champion on Jeopardy!