Jeffrey Yang in Conversation With John Beer

Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award-winning poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. Yang’s Hey, Marfa (Graywolf) is a fascinating, multifaceted work – an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words – that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture, and extremity of place. Yang will be joined in conversation by poet John Beer, author of Lucinda.

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