A.V. Marraccini

Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered @sevenstories.bsky.social + @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social ! Excited for you all to see it in 2028! With thanks to beloved agent @craigliterary.bsky.social Celebrating after with a basil strawberry iced lemonade, which will turn out to be book-themed… 🍓

Thinking of the Commune and the contemporary tonight, a new translation of Louise Michel’s “Red Carnations” from the French. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/red-carnat...

Thinking of the Commune and the contemporary tonight, a new translation of Louise Michel’s “Red Carnations” from the French. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/red-carnat...

Solidarité avec les lycéens 🤍 (I may love translating German but I’m glad I read French so I can watch the world they grow up to better)

Terrific essay here from @saintsoftness.bsky.social. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/183...

This new @poetry.foundation piece was also for you, architecture friends. In writing about architecture, I try to situate it in a whole aesthetic frame-- and ideally an unexpected one. I hope this makes the Finnish Midcentury Modern part of a new poetics. I also touch on latent socialist baroques.

For the Poetry Foundation— “Breathing At the End on the World” — on Auden, Aalto, and a visit to Helsinki in the Dog Days. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/183...

Now up! For the Berlin Review on Anne Carson’s classicisms in the wake of her Nobel win (plus an Etruscan talking object and some lightning). blnreview.substack.com/p/after-carson

As a teaser for my forthcoming Berlin Review piece on Anne Carson and linked classicisms, please enjoy this new Hölderlin translation with notes and introduction. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/holderlin-...

A new Substack post with a translation of Trakl, plus musings on Schiele and Expressionism in a world overdue. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/expression...

A new Substack post with a translation of Trakl, plus musings on Schiele and Expressionism in a world overdue. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/expression...

More Rilke translation, with accompanying Magritte, on my Substack before the semester starts. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/more-rilke...

More Rilke translation, with accompanying Magritte, on my Substack before the semester starts. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/more-rilke...

On Substack: A little Rilke translation for the evening, with the Magritte it somehow evokes for me. To all our autumns, wanderers! substack.com/home/post/p-...

On Substack: A little Rilke translation for the evening, with the Magritte it somehow evokes for me. To all our autumns, wanderers! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Read an interview with me in Finnish for Poesia featuring everyone’s favorite kitten! Lukekaa suomenkielinen haastatteluni Poesian sivuilta — mukana on myös kaikkien suosikkikissa! poesia.fi/2026/08/hybrid…

Beautiful books from Poesia in Helsinki. This is what book design can look like!!! looking at you, Anglosphere publishing… (The purple volume is not Poesia, it’s from Runokuu, but otherwise these are all from one avant garde poetry and poetics collective with a letterpress and great taste!)

Rare twitter crossover Plin:

New today: me in the Berlin Review, responding to @sentantiq on Nolan's Odyssey, but also on the collapse of literacy in contemporary America, senses of apocalypse in the humanities, and a relevant new Hölderlin translation: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

For more literary stuff, notebooks, minor speculations, shifting to Substack and Insta more: - insta: Saintsoftness -substack: avmarraccini.substack.com

New Substack thing! Loose Thoughts on Stupid Love: Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/loose-thou...

New Substack thing! Loose Thoughts on Stupid Love: Ballet and an Excess of Seriousness. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/loose-thou...

Today for the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social: on Hockney, Pliny the Kitten, Pliny the Elder, and things as they seem to be as the twentieth century recedes: clereviewofbooks.com/david-hockne...

My “Difficult Epigrams”from CRB issue 4.1 are now up online. Click through for brass noses, obsidian, espaliered trees, and intractable loves: clereviewofbooks.com/difficult-ep...

My “Difficult Epigrams”from CRB issue 4.1 are now up online. Click through for brass noses, obsidian, espaliered trees, and intractable loves: clereviewofbooks.com/difficult-ep...

I hope you enjoy this drafty little mock-period fiction experiment with no proper ending, inspired by the character studies of Fragonard, Montesquieu, and Balzac— as well as Plin’s little orange slice collar, which will be absent tomorrow. Now on Substack: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-misfortu...

I hope you enjoy this drafty little mock-period fiction experiment with no proper ending, inspired by the character studies of Fragonard, Montesquieu, and Balzac— as well as Plin’s little orange slice collar, which will be absent tomorrow. Now on Substack: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-misfortu...

New Substack piece “Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred” — loose thoughts on pure mathematics, love, literature, and other problems: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/conjecture...

New Substack piece “Conjectures on Goldbach’s Conjecture Denoted As Every Prime Number Under One Hundred” — loose thoughts on pure mathematics, love, literature, and other problems: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/conjecture...

Thanks so much to Marshall Amintor for letting me know We The Parasites was in a Puzzmo crossword clue today. This is so cool!!! ❤️‍🔥🪱

Working on a new essay for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social in the usual chaotic-ordered webbed map style. In memoriam, things that feel like summers, swimming pools, phenomenologies of desire (hazy and otherwise), things as they are(n’t), Wallace Stevens et alii

Today, I have a some delicious self-reflexive formal play going with a new sonnet entitled “Critcs and Criticism” at The Sonneteer (Ken Gordon’s poetry Substack). Have a look! thesonneteer.substack.com/p/critics-an...

New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

Because I would normally say something tonight, instead; wait for my thoughts on the late David Hockney later this summer in the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I promise it will be worth it!

New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

I’m going to be posting some short experimental pieces soon and it’s hit and miss with promo, so do subscribe if you’d like to see them: avmarraccini.substack.com

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

Buy @clereviewbooks.bsky.social CRB Issue 4.1 and get one of the most beautifully designed magazine-anthologies in contemporary literature, with some linked epigrams on difficulty, brass noses, volcanoes, obsidian, macarons and the Cumaean Sibyl. asterismbooks.com/product/clev...