Action Books Blog | Top 10 Blog Posts of 2021
Our year-end list of your favorite Action Books Blog Posts is here! We're so grateful for our dedicated readers and contributors! (I remain especially grateful to anyone who still believes in the importance of reviewing!) [...]
Thru the Disintegration Loop: On Christopher Norris’ Hunchback 88 by Mike Corrao
(Now available from Inside the Castle) The dimensions of the text are reminiscent of a brick or a VHS tape—something small & dense that you could use to break a window. - [...]
Notes on Jae Kim’s Translation of Lee Young-Ju’s Cold Candies by Paul Cunningham
(Now available from Black Ocean's Moon Country Korean Poetry Series) In his translator’s note, Jae Kim states Cold Candies contains selections from four of Lee Young-Ju’s original books. Here, Kim has thoughtfully [...]
From FuturePanic by Amish Trivedi
(Now available from co•im•press) At night we lay dying, imagining all the panics of death: breath slowing, stopping; arms falling slack, cold. This panic floods continually, the delta of an [...]
From The Wound is (Not) Real: A Memoir by Marty Cain
Now available to pre-order from Trembling Pillow Press What a dream, this new book by Marty Cain, and, like a dream, how difficult to shake: “one enters the wound and begins singing.” Here is [...]
poetry in action #25 | From and when the light comes it will be fantastic by Kristin Berget translated by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri
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 [...]