“in the carbide sadness”: A Review of Antonio Gamoneda’s Book of the Cold by Paul Cunningham
In Book of the Cold, memory burns up like flowers; vertigo stills a reader's perception as much as it dizzies; and sight-blurring rainfall rages like a sculptor's hands. Brilliantly translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and [...]
2022 Action Books Open Reading Results
What's next from Action Books? motherworld: a devotional from the alter-life: Lightbearing Afrofuturism from Destiny Hemphill The Prelude: Dank, upsurgent pastoralia from Marty Cain Something Evergreen Called Life: Nightpiercing songs of exile and intimacy [...]
poetry in action #31 | Friederike Mayröcker, translated by Donna Stonecipher (Part One)
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. It has three rallying cries: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publishable poetry established [...]
Poesía en acción: Translator Micro-Interview Series: Laura Cesarco Eglin
1. How did you start translating Lara Dopazo Ruibal’s work? What drew you to it? I started translating claus and the scorpion very soon after I finished reading the book, late 2018. I was [...]
Poesía en acción #25 | from claus and the scropion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal and Translator Laura Cesarco Eglin
from claus and the scorpion By Lara Dopazo Ruibal Translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin (Forthcoming Summer 2022 from co•im•press) the scorpion draws a shadow of [...]
“Joyelle—Catalyst” by Adam Strauss
Towards the end of December, 2019, I read a few pieces of Joyelle's from what was clearly a crown in Typo. And preceding that by two or three years, I watched a YouTube video of her [...]