Effing the Ineff and Distich Farm

About the Book

Effing the Ineff and Distich Farm contains two collections of poems, mainly distichs (two-liners) treating the place of the commonplace, the banality of the exceptional. Preoccupations are sex, beauty, and what seems real or right - there's humor along with anger, joy, and pain. Without thinking to do so, the author has followed Dickinson, La Rochefoucauld, and Penna in their concision.

About the Author

Blake Robinson is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Nation, Chelsea, and Exquisite Corpse. Carcanet Press brought out his Remember Me, God of Love, an anthology of Italian poet Sandro Penna’s poetry and prose. His translation of French painter-writer Eugène Fromentin's Between Sea and Sahara, a work about Algeria written as it was being colonized, was published by Ohio University Press. Available from Xlibris are Pairs, a book of two-line poems, and Paris Then, a translation of articles, essays, and reminiscences by Italian writer, artist, composer Alberto Savinio.