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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.

Forthcoming in 2009
"The Tenderness and the Wood"

 
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