Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I

Join us on November 20 for the launch of Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I with poet and translator Patricio Ferrari, in conversation with Greg Brownderville.

Mud Songs: Elsehere Book I, winner of the 2026 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, is a lyrical and archival journey through languages, inheritances, migration, loss, and renewal. Ferrari’s multilingual poetics moves across castellano, lunfardo, English, and other linguistic currents, with Buenos Aires as one of the book’s central presences.

About Patricio Ferrari

Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar. He holds degrees from the Sorbonne, Brown University, and the University of Lisbon, and has published more than twenty books as a translator and editor, including volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis, as well as The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, all published by New Directions.

Greg Brownderville will be in conversation with Patricio Ferrari at the launch.