Garth Greenwell

The original question was, does sex, is sex the best translator? I do, I do think I've read some pretty good novel- I think of the po- uh, the novelist, but I mean, I often wanna call him a poet 'cause he, you know, I think he studied poetry for a long time.

Garth Greenwell, who I think writes-

Yeah.

It's a fact

There's so- Like, when you're driving a car, you can, you know, think about the past, think about the future, uh, call your parents, think about your children.

It, it, it, the car becomes the mode and the container for this, uh, exploration of movement and self.

And I think Garth Greenwell does this well.

He, it, it's not that, it doesn't become pornographic in that it's about, you know, the kind of raunchy flexibility of maybe some things they're doing.

I hope that you enjoyed today's offering brought to you by the Academy of American Poets.

This is Idra Novi reading my co-translation with Garth Greenwell of Folded by Luis Munoz.

Folded.

That was the most surprising thing about writing in the summer.

Yeah,

because I interviewed R.O. Kwan and Garth Greenwell when I was at Rolling Stone about that book, then never published it, and then I recently published the interview because I was like, wait, I never did anything with that interview, and it's amazing.

I was so excited about the course because I

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