Poetry. CAConrad describes ORIZABA: A VOYAGE WITH HART CRANE as "one of the most important literary ventures into Gender Questioning, told through the magic of Hart Crane with the magic hand of Stacy Szymaszek. If this isn't essential reading at the moment then it will be very soon!" ORIZABA was written in 2004 in Milwaukee and revised in Brooklyn in 2007. It appears here with a selection from the serial poem "Hyperglossia" entitled "The Eustace Poems."

Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane

Literature & Fiction

Szymaszek, Stacy

Poetry

Faux Press

THE PASOLINI BOOK documents the poet Stacy Szymaszek's engagement with the work of the Italian film director, poet, and political figure Pier Paolo Pasolini alongside her own evolving vocation as civic poet and dissenting subject within an American polis by turns hostile and hospitable. Extending the exploration of the temporally unbound, genderqueer, and disaster-prone persona of her earlier works, this volume collects two successive iterations of "felt translations," poem-for-poem rewritings, channelings, and détournements, of Pasolini's Roman Poems, undertaken over a decade apart. Separating the two suites of poems are three iterations of autofiction titled "A Sentimental Education," in which Szymaszek's Midwestern upbringing is recentered and transformed through speculative identification with Pasolini. The Pasolini Book evidences a search for a civic poetry in which the poet does not contain multitudes so much as she exudes an abundant and experimental identity emerging from long experience seeking political and artistic solidarities on the margins of institutional life. "We are all in danger," Pasolini said in an interview only hours before he was murdered; today, in the midst of capitalist ruin, Szymaszek's poetry maps the particular pains of embattled artistic autonomy and the turbulent state of social and political community. 
Poetry. Italian Studies. Art. LGBTQ+ Studies.

The Pasolini Book

Literary

Golias Books

Famous Hermits

Archway Editions

Stacy Szymaszek's free-range attention is fixed on what is just underfoot and just in the line of sight: the replete objects of homely desire, homely repulsion. Beloved dying dog, worthy work, relational obligation, self-entertainment, an anxious curative. In the tradition of the New York School of dailiness and relative effervescence, this work brings a timely recasting of contemporary attachments.
it's a sauna in here dancer sweat entering humanity's glands//
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stacy Szymaszek is author of the collections Emptied of All Ships (2005) and Hyperglossia (2009). Szymaszek is artistic director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Ottoline Prize)

Fence Books

In hart island, the poet narrator walks and works in the East Village of Manhattan navigating the day to day needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well as her own. The poem, which begins after she discovers the existence of an appropriated, politically walled-off potter’s field/prison, proposes that others are not figurative or metaphorical, but are literal, material―that alterity can be both a limit and radiance. Praise for Stacy Szymaszek: “Each poem is what I am looking for: a resonance with a particular location, an intelligence unafraid of its humanity, a sort of desperate adequacy with the people or objects that Szymaszek encounters.”―Etel Adnan

Hart Island

Nightboat Books

A Year From Today traverses a many-layered urban terrain―social, political, poetic, animal―in a form more raw than a diary, weightier than a series of sketches, more idiosyncratic and implicated than a conceptual program. Among this volume’s many insights is how we spend our days detecting, minute-by-minute and phrase-by-phrase, an overarching aesthetic and moral design. It’s for the kind of grown-up who might say, “don’t/look for/who’s really in charge c’est moi.” And for the kind of sensitive brigand who might add, “maybe the way to go about this/is to stay within earshot &amp; sip the Wild Turk.”

A Year From Today

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