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Citational Poetics: A Series | Part 2: Linguistic Intimacy by AM Ringwalt
What follows below is a continuation of AM Ringwalt's Action Blog series - Citational Poetics. You can read her Introduction to the series [here] or Part I: "Cosmic Reordering" [here]. As always, thanks for reading [...]
Trap Poetics | Part 2 by Ava Hofmann
Click [here] to read Part 1 of "Trap Poetics" Accessibility Text Pictured is another page of text which has been spatially arranged, with visual elements connecting different sections of text in a nonlinear [...]
N O I S E M A K E R S – AUGUST 2020
We proudly present the fourth installment of Action Books' N O I S E M A K E R S, a monthly series that recognizes poets, translators, and poet-translators whose recently published work pushes boundaries, [...]
From “The Wounded Path Toward an Interesting Life” by Aase Berg and Translated by Johannes Göransson
Translated by Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney [for the entire text see Tsunami from Solaris (Action Books, 2019)] The scars wait for new attacks. They are not at all as safely and reliably passive [...]
“Torturously Beautiful”: Aase Berg Reviews Eva Kristina Olsson’s The Angelgreen Sacrament
Originally published in Dagens Nyheter, June 12, 2017 Translated by Johannes Göransson Why are so many people angry at poetry? Even the poets hate their form of expression. The poet Anna Axfors [...]
“Smaller and larger nooks of still living cell-tissue”: Wax Casts, Mouththroats, and Bells in Helena Boberg’s Sense Violence by Hannah V Warren
“As bodily metaphor, the grotesque cave tends to look like (and in the most gross metaphorical sense be identified with) the cavernous anatomical female body.” —Mary Russo, The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity [...]