Author

Hadbawnik, David

David Hadbawnik is a poet, translator, medieval scholar, and an editor, with Chris Vitiello, of Polis Press. Books include Damage (Knife Fork Book, 2026); a translation of the Aeneid (Shearsman, 2023); an edited volume, Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms (Medieval Institute Publications, 2022); and Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems (Delete Press, 2018). He currently lives in the Minneapolis area with his wife and son.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

Face and Other Poems contemporary

David Hadbawnik

A subtle disquiet permeates these poems, where ordinary gestures, fleeting perceptions, and fractured exchanges become sites of epistemological uncertainty, exposing the instability of memory, identity, and the narratives through which we recognize one another. Through an aesthetics of estrangement and oblique observation, the poems unsettle the authority of appearances and the transparency of language, tracing the fragile boundary between seeing and misrecognizing, intimacy and surveillance, truth and its endlessly deferred reflection.

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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