The Discovery of America

The scene is a Roman bar, where the narrator tellsin outrageous sonnetsof Columbuss battle with the Spanish bureaucracy for supplies and ships, of the endless storms that pound the ocean, of the voyagers inevitable swindling of the natives, and of Columbuss final fall from royal favor. After several interruptions and promptings by a skeptical and impatient audience, the narrator comes to the point of his yarnthat genius will sometimes exact a heavy price. Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets