Joshua Mensch is a poet, visual artist, literary translator, and a founding editor of the Prague-based literary journal B O D Y. His first book of poetry, Because: A Lyric Memoir (W. W. Norton, 2018) was a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. His translations include Petr Hruška’s I Caught Sight of My Face, (Kulturalis,
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Because: A Lyric Memoir by Joshua MenschWW Norton, 2018, 144 pages Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry A “disturbing, memorably and superbly handled book-length narrative poem” (Stephanie Burt), Because offers a compassionate and wrenching account of the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse. It tells the story of Don, the charming, enigmatic
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