Daniel Borzutzky

Biography

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator, and the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Chilean poet Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia won the 2017 National Translation Award for Poetry. His other books include Lake Michigan (Pittsburgh, forthcoming 2018), In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (2015), and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011).

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POETRY / Fall 2017

Lake Michigan, Scene 0

By Daniel Borzutzky

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house asking questions about the boy they shot twenty-two times 

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house screaming about how the videotape of the shooting was covered up so that the...