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, the Action Books Strange Fiction Series will [...]
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! Only [...]
1. How did you start translating Yaxkin Melchy’s poetry? What drew you to it? Yaxkin’s poems constantly catch me by surprise. The way his images jump and loop back, how the page is activated, the lyric cascades, the scales shifting, [...]
From THE NEW WORLD By Yaxkin Melchy Translated by Ryan Greene Poems from THE NEW WORLD appear bilingually in Poetechnics (out now with Cardboard House Press!) and Word Heart (forthcoming in 2023 from Toad Press!) [...]
To further support Action Books’ growing community of writers and readers, we’ve decided to launch a new initiative on the Action Books Blog. Selected by our editorial staff, a recurring series called Action Fokus will highlight excerpts from 12+ radical manuscripts submitted by [...]
curated by Katherine M. Hedeen Reviewing poetry in translation recognizes translators as authors destabilizes narrow definitions of originality, authenticity, and authorship makes visible the artistry of translation is dissent, defiance, disobedience, subversion, solidarity Where better than the Action [...]
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! Only [...]
1. How did you start translating Santiago Vizcaíno’s work? What drew you to it? I’ve been translating Vizcaíno’s work since around 2013. We’d met in Spain a year or so earlier when both of us were studying –he in [...]
To further support Action Books’ growing community of writers and readers, we’ve decided to launch a new initiative on the Action Books Blog. Selected by our editorial staff, a recurring series called Action Fokus will highlight excerpts from 12+ radical manuscripts submitted by [...]
Four Poems from El viento a contrapelo de mi sombra / The Wind Against My Shadow By Santiago Vizcaíno Translated by Kimrey Anna Batts When You No Longer Die When you no longer die, [...]