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Daniel Borzutzky is a Chicago-based poet and translator. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human won the 2016 National Book Award.

The son of Chilean immigrants, Borzutzky's work often addresses immigration, worker exploitation, political corruption, and economic disparity. He teaches at Wright College.

Works

Poetry

Full Length Collections:

  • The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)
  • In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat Books, 2015)
  • "The Book of Interfering Bodies" (Nightboat Books, 2011)
  • "The Ecstasy of Capitulation" (Blazevox, 2007)

Chapbooks:

  • Bedtime Stories for the End of the World" (Bloof, 2015)
  • "Data Bodies (Holon, 2013)

Poetry/Essay:

  • "Memories of my Overdevelopment" (Kenning Editions, Ordinance Series, 2015)

Translations

  • Galo Ghigliotto, Valdivia (co•im•press, 2016)
  • Raúl Zurita, The Country of Planks (Action Books, 2015)
  • Raúl Zurita, Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010)
  • Jaime Luis Huenún, Port Trakl (Action Books, 2008)

Honors

  • National Book Award, The Performance of Becoming Human (2016)
  • PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Raúl Zurita’s El País de Tablas (The Country of Planks) (2013)
  • National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2013)
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