Charlestown Blues

Guy Goffette is the author of seven books of poems, most recently L’adieu aux lisières, as well as two novels and imaginative studies of poets and painters including Auden and Bonnard. He has had a long career as a teacher, literary critic, and editor at Éditions Gallimard.
 
Marilyn Hacker is a member of the faculties at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and at the City College of New York.  She is the author of eleven books of poems, including Desesperanto and Essays on Departure, and of five collections of translations.