Action Books | Our Favorite Books of Poetry in Translation 2021
[The Action Books Editors and Advisory Editors share their favorite books of poetry in translation published in 2021.] In alphabetical order: prepoems in postspanish and other poems by Jorgenrique Adoum, translated [...]
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 [...]