Front cover of de la Torre's book, Talk Shows
Front cover of de la Torre's book, Talk Shows
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Mónica de la Torre Reading
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired 8/10/09
Mónica de la Torre reads her long serial poem The Crush from her collection Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008). De la Torre is also the author of Talk Shows (Switchback, 2007) and Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria, 2006), co-editor of the multilingual anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) and translator and editor of the bilingual volume of Gerardo Deniz's collection Poemas/Poems (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000). She is an NYFA 2009 fellow in poetry and senior editor at BOMB Magazine (28 minutes).
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