Marlon Fick

"Marlon Fick has single handedly salvaged the second half of Mexican Literature of the 20th Century."
--San Antonio Express

Marlon Fick is an American poet, novelist, and multidisciplinary scholar. He is the editor and translator of The River Is Wide: Twenty Mexican Poets, published by UNM Press (2005); El nino de Safo, published by Fuentes Mortera in Spanish (2000); Selected Poems (2001) and Histerias Minimas (fiction, 2000)--both in English. Reading Palms in the Morgue (2007) is a volume of poetry in Russian translation by Tatiana Puchnacheva. He's the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry for The Tenderness and the Wood, with and Introduction by Willis Barnstone, as well as the recipient of The Latitudes Foundation Award for Poetic Diversity (an award shared with Naomi Shahib Nye and Robert Bly). Fick won Mexico's National Endowment (The ConaCulta) in 2000 for his poems in Spanish, and he was honored for translation work by Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs for contributions to Latin Letters.

Pre-review of
"Inside the Kill Zone"

"I found the Pakistani worldview fascinating in its naïveté. It is no less benighted than that of many Americans, but its expression seems more transparently wacko in another cultural idiom. As a narrative, Inside the Kill Zone, turns the Henry James/ Mark Twain genre of "innocents abroad" on its head: the narrator comes out as the disillusioned, worldly-wise (though never cynical) traveler, while the stay-at-home Muslims and the Americans are the innocents, though their innocence is actually founded on moral arrogance and intellectual sloth."

-Christopher Collins, New York University

Availability

Marlon Fick is available for public readings and/or lectures and creative writing workshops, as well as short or long term activities at universities and high schools or other venues for the arts.

Books by Marlon Fick

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What's New?

Currently Marlon Fick is writing a book of non fiction about the repressed lives of women in Pakistan, where he worked in 2006 and 2007: Inside the Kill Zone: Reflections of Pakistan from An American Man in the Society of Muslim Women. His most recent manuscript, a novel, Bolivar's Daughters is being circulated among publishers.

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