Action Books: Meet Our New Assistant Editors (2022-2023)
Gussie Beaver 1) Who are your favorite poets? If you could recommend one poem to someone, what would it be? My all-time favorite poet is e.e. cummings. I’ve been obsessed with his inventive style for [...]
“Indigo Clover” by Rebecca Gransden | Strange Fiction Series
Art doesn’t so much mimic reality as morph, stretch, and bewitch it. The so-called rabbit holes, the night thoughts, the stray bits we dismiss, the teeming multiplicity of various “realities” – in the coming months, [...]
Announcing Action Fokus and James Pate’s Strange Fiction Series
"To further support Action Books’ growing community of writers and readers, we’ve decided to launch several new initiatives via the Action Books Blog. Selected by our editorial staff, a recurring series called Action Fokus will [...]
“Citational Poetics: A Conclusion” by AM Ringwalt
“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange [...] Let us see who controls the danger.” —Anne Carson, Decreation Anne Carson’s self-described three [...]
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 [...]