Jaime Luis Huenn's Port Trakl
Port Trakl, a narrative of poems written by Jaime Luis Huenun and translated by Daniel Borzutzky, focuses on a Port named after poet Georg Trakl, where “poets come to die” (11) and share their poems amongst themselves. In his book, Port Trakl, Huenen showcases the connections that poets can share with each others’ work through his narrative about the poets at the Port sharing of their work as a collection that’ll remain at the port.
In Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl, he describes books as “the truest ghosts among us, the immaterial made material” (6). He then goes on to state that writing is an act that ‘sets the fiction of one’s self aside” (6), and that is it a type of friendship. This idea extends to Port Trakl through Huenun’s use of the
In Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl, he describes books as “the truest ghosts among us, the immaterial made material” (6). He then goes on to state that writing is an act that ‘sets the fiction of one’s self aside” (6), and that is it a type of friendship. This idea extends to Port Trakl through Huenun’s use of the