Peripety and/or Tronies

Mark Goldstein (he/him/his) is a writer, editor, translator and graphic artist who lives in Tkaronto. A 2026 writer-in-residence at the Al Purdy A-frame , Canada’s pre-eminent peer-reviewed writers’ residency, his work includes Paul Celan: Thricelandium (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), the novel, Her Process and the essay collection, Part Thief, Part Carpenter (Beautiful Outlaw, 2021), Form of Forms (Book*hug, 2012), Tracelanguage (Book*hug, 2010), After Rilke (Book*hug, 2008). He and Jaclyn Piudik co-edited Anyword: A Festschrift for Phil Hall (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), and Paul Celan/100 , an online anthology and reading event in 2020, with contributions from Ian Fairley, Susan H. Gillespie, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, Erín Moure, and others. Goldstein’s poetry and criticism have appeared in trade and limited editions as well as periodicals and journals such as The Capilano Review , periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics , and Jacket2 . An array of videos of Goldstein, incl...