poetry in action #32 | Friederike Mayröcker, translated by Donna Stonecipher (Part Two)
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: Lucina Schell
1. How did you start translating this book by Mercedes Roffé? What drew you to it? Mercedes Roffé wanted to publish another one of her poetry collections in English (she has previously been translated [...]
Poesía en acción #26 | From Mere Diary by Mercedes Roffé and Translator Lucina Schell
from Mere Diary By Mercedes Roffé Translated by Lucina Schell August 20 RURAL JOURNEY the cry in those women is even more silence October 22 GRAY [...]
“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 [...]