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 by mainstream literary venues! [...]
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 the Action Blog! “(We must [...]
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 way. Linkages between passages and [...]
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, goes too far, to far [...]
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 as one might expect. In [...]
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 wrote this in Expressen: “To [...]
“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 “Orchids of flower meal, peonies [...]
Accessibility Text Pictured is a page of text which has been spatially arranged, with visual elements connecting different sections of text in a nonlinear way. Linkages between passages and images will be indicated. Ava Hofmann, 2020 Trap Poetics: [...]
Don Mee Choi’s new pamphlet from Ugly Duckling Presse, Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode, explores translation as a radical regime utilizing the lenses of poetry, cinema, and American colonialism. ^ Don Mee Choi is a [...]
I concluded the Introduction to this series with a quote from Harmony Holiday’s “Cloves” to leave her image of Sisyphus—a Black female Sisyphus—as an emblem for the words ahead. Holiday’s Sisyphus, bearing citation of myth and of self, pushes her [...]