Lorca's Comet

This new collection by Portland poet Greg Simon illustrates his sweeping

involvement in American and world poetry for over six decades; stories he learned

from the men and women he met, and his travels to California, Iowa, France,

Nicaragua, Norway and Spain. The book is an "idea-o-logue of poetry and a

travelogue of life" as a poet and translator.

Greg Simon was born in Minnesota, but has lived most of his life in the Pacific

Northwest. He was educated in Seattle, Iowa City, and Palo Alto, and has an MFA in

Creative Writing from Stanford University. He is the co-translator, with Steven F.

White and Christopher Maurer, of Federico Garcia Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York,

published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1988. Other Simon/White collaborations

include books of poetry by Gaston Baquero (Cuba), Pablo Antonio Cuadra

(Nicaragua), and Ruben Dario (Nicaragua). He has been a contributing and

translation editor for Porch, White Pine Press, The Salt River Review, and Trask

House Books. In 2018 he published a book of sonnets, Follow Her, with Cave Moon

Press. He lives and works in an old wooden house above the west bank of the

Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.