The BURIED Book Club discussion

Best known known as a Black Mountain Poet , related to Robert Creeley for experimenting with form, also fine lyric poet.

Dolors wrote: "Best known known as a Black Mountain Poet , related to Robert Creeley for experimenting with form, also fine lyric poet."

Sorrentino reviews Blackburn's Journals collected in his Something Said. There's also a piece in there on several items from Black Mountain.

thnks, Dolors.

Unless I'm mistaken, he also translated several Cortazar books, including the excellent Cronopios and Famas. I think Cortazar dedicated that English printing to him even -- he appears to have died between translation and publication.

Nate D wrote: "Unless I'm mistaken, he also translated several Cortazar books, including the excellent Cronopios and Famas. I think Cortazar dedicated that English printing to him even -- he appears to have died ..."

goodreads credits him with four Cortazar translations, and he contributed translations of a few Paz poems: http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/... I've not read Cortazar yet, but by reputation, this fact of translation is HUGE credit to Blackburn's talent.

Absolutely. He did marvelous things there in maintaining Cortazar's unique feeling and prose style, no mean feat.