015 – Digging into the Unknown with Daniel Borzutzky

We’re digging into the unknown with Daniel Borzutzky.

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of Lake Michigan, finalist for the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize; The Performance of Becoming Human, which received the 2016 National Book Award. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (2015); Memories of my Overdevelopment (2015); and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011). He teaches in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies Departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

We’ll start with a Daniel Borzutkzy’s March 2021 performance at City of Asylum, then we’ll transition to an interview we just did with Borzutzky, some conversation from us, and finally what we’re reading and some thoughts for the road. We’re talking joy, the love that survives, and how our country became used to massacre. 

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Many thanks to Luis Alfonso for the music in this episode. Image credit to City of Asylum.

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