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Henk Rossouw

Originally from South Africa, Henk Rossouw's book-length poem Xamissa—out from Fordham University Press in Fall 2018—won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. Best American Experimental Writing 2018 (Wesleyan University Press) features an excerpt. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor in the University of Houston's Honors College.

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Border Lyrics

In daring new translations of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters and Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea, linguistic playfulness and political acuity overlap in breathtaking ways.
Henk Rossouw
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On the Poetry of Institutional Violence

The anonymous collective BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP transmutes voices from the archive into lyric form.
Henk Rossouw
Poetry

Sonnet for My Son

Henk Rossouw

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