In this rich and searching episode, Bianca Stone talks with the translator Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright about her partner, the late poet, Franz Wright, focusing on a new chapbook from Foundling Press, At His Desk In The Past. This chapbook is the first U.S. publication of new work by Franz Wright since his death in 2015. Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, At His Desk In The Past comprises lyric fragments that Wright composed and re-composed on a handheld recording device between January and April 2012. The publication from Foundlings Press also includes an audiobook, Wright’s own voice in the original recordings of these fragments. We play these fragments and discuss deeply the work of one of the greatest poets of our lifetime.
