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Fisher has rendered it in an English text that is just as dazzling as the original.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sarah Kapp, \u003cem\u003eThe Moscow Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Freedom Factory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a thriller, a romance, and a social drama all in one, and—this is especially important—it’s a book by a post–Soviet person about the Soviet experience. ”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Dmitriy Bykov\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My first impression was that of a … novel written by a slightly drunk Joyce. ”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Maxim Amelin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[When I read the novel] I thought of Spanish Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela and his novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e… which through the blending of many disparate voices gives an image of the time, the characters, the particular atmosphere. The Freedom Factory has echoes of this same device. ”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gennadiy Kalashnikov\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ksenia Buksha has successfully done what no one else, it seems has been able to do: combine utopia and anti–utopia.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Nadezhda Sergeyeva\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoet, fiction writer, and artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKsenia Buksha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Saint Petersburg. She holds a degree in economics from Saint Petersburg State University and has worked as a journalist, copywriter, and day trader. Since her breakout fiction collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlyonka the Partisan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2002), Buksha has been winning acclaim as a brilliant stylist and satirist whose linguistic experimentation is guided by a healthy sense of the absurd. In 2004, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Freedom Factory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the National Bestseller award and was a finalist for the Big Book Award. Buksha’s work has been translated into Polish, Chinese, French, and English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnne O. Fisher\u003c\/strong\u003e’s recent translations include works by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Nilufar Sharipova, Ilya Danishevsky, Aleksey Lukyanov, and Julia Lukshina. Fisher and co-translator Derek Mong collaborated to produce \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (White Pine Press, 2018), awarded the 2018 Cliff Becker Prize. Fisher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The Central Tower\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWell, one smart mother did instill it in her first-grade son: when you see those letters, white on red, don’t read them, it’s pure nonsense—but don’t you tell anybody what I just told you. Pure nonsense, in white letters on red, right there above the Freedom Factory. A spotlight over the entrance points its beam directly up. Multitudes of snowflakes, tiny as sparks, keep flying into the beam and swirling around like burning gunpowder. The factory workers hurry home in this freezing cold, holding their breath, to ring in the New Year. The snow doesn’t just crackle under their feet, it actually squeals. In this kind of cold, breathing is impossible: you might as well try to breathe black pepper. It feels like the snow would catch fire if you held a match to it. And no looking up, either, not a chance, although if you do go ahead and try to lift your frost-burned face you’ll see a red banner over the entrance, and white letters, and above them the spotlight’s beam, drilling through the murky, sleepy sky over the Narva Outpost all the way into outer space, although its target really isn’t outer space at all, but the clock on the Central Tower, that’s what! 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I’d rather spend it with D. He’s just as much of an idiot as you, but at least he shuts up sometimes. Well sure, of course we’ll take D with us! We’ll all head over to my place. My dad’s on duty, he’ll be gone all night. I’ll take care of the, you know, the stuff. Come on, D, quit your dawdling and finish it, or else the trams’ll stop running. The trams run until eleven (setting a sprocket in graphite lubricant). I’ll be right there. You go on and invite Olya over. I did, I already did! Is that so? When was that?\u003cbr\u003eIt’s freezing outside, enough to knock the wind out of you. I can’t remember it ever being this cold. I can’t either. They say it was during the blockade, but I don’t remember. Man, when we lived in the Urals, minus forty-five in the winter was no big deal. But at least the air was dry there. Here you’ve got this mist, this haze. My grandma’s been wheezing for three days, she can’t take this kind of freezing cold. Then she shouldn’t go outside. No, she wheezes inside, too.\u003cbr\u003eWhoa, the light’s on in number four. Hey boys, let’s go check out Four, what’d they do over there? I haven’t seen it yet. But what’s the time? We got plenty of time. Let’s go.\u003cbr\u003eShop Four’s new, expansive layout. Out past the enormous windows, just touched by frost, the sharp outlines of bare branches. Booming footsteps. An echo reverberates. Get a load of that! What kind of machines are those, anyway? They’re, like, war trophies. Careful, boys. Someone’s coming. It’s okay, chief, we’re from Fifteen. Showing the girl\u003cbr\u003earound. It’s all fancy-schmancy over here now, isn’t it? (Felt boots, baggy overcoat, moustache.) Happy New Year! Olya’s smile, now, for a smile like that you’d do anything! Olya’s with the quality control department. Ah, I see. Happy New Year, kids. That’s right. There’s certainly something worth looking at here, that’s right. And here I was, thinking, who are those folks? You make sure to come by again. ’Cause next time I’ll… So you’re from Fifteen, then, the hardest-working shop, always working late. Puts in the most overtime. (A whiff of alcohol.) Go on and take a seat. We’ll have us a little chat. That tram won’t get away from you. There’s a lot I can tell you about… I was here way back when there wasn’t anything here, nothing at all, but I was here… Wanna know what I did? I kept this factory from burning down. That’s something you don’t know. During the war, that’s right. Come on, now, have a seat. You Komsomol kids! 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Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with perfect tone by award‐winning translator Meg Matich, Sigurðsson creates tiny but arresting artifacts—fragments that scale an instant to an aeon, and a thousand millennia to a second. Whether describing the dwarf wasp’s one‐millimeter wingspan or the roots of a bonsai, he is a cosmologist of language, and \u003cem\u003eCold Moons\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate map of his distinctive universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823616819449,"sku":"9781944700096","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/ColdMoons.jpg?v=1596661110"},{"product_id":"baho-a-novel","title":"Baho!","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Roland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the French by Christopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eYoung Burundian novelist Roland Rugero's second novel \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi's beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eApril 12, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419620\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to an appropriate place to relieve himself, his gestures are mistaken as premeditation for rape. To the young woman’s community, his fleeing confirms his guilt, setting off a chain reaction of pursuit, mob justice, and Nyamuragi’s attempts at explanation. Young Burundian novelist Roland Rugero’s second novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaho!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi’s beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBorn in 1986 in Burundi, \u003cstrong\u003eRoland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in a family where reading was a favorite pastime. He has worked as a journalist in Burundi since 2008. His novels include \u003cem\u003eLes Oniriques\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to be translated into English. Rugero has held residencies at La Rochelle and at Iowa's prestigious International Writing Program. In addition to his work as a writer, in 2011 he wrote and directed \u003cem\u003eLes pieds et les mains\u003c\/em\u003e, the second-ever feature-length film from Burundi. Rugero is active in promoting Burundi's literary culture, co-founding the Samandari Workshop and helping found the Michel Kayoza and Andika Prizes. He lives in Bujumbura, Burundi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator from the Spanish and French living in Paris. He has won the Ezra Pound Award for Best Translation from the University of Pennsylvania for his translations of the Cuban poet Javier Marimón. 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As the poems swim upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory, embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other. Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--reviews panel entry-content wc-tab\" id=\"tab-reviews\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills is the most interesting Mexican poet working today.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Mario Bellatin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills ingeniously overlays ordinary subject-verb-object sentences with familiar narrative structural elements—“And so,” “The first time,” “Little by little…” to limn a contemporary suburban domestic relationship. But the familiar patterns of romantic gifts, songs, winks, shared dinners, and lists of things to do are horribly irrupted by paranoia, sadomasochistic games, the voices of a psyche named Anonymous, and formulas for controlling the body and its words and deeds. Any erotic dimension is upended; cleavage is perceived as a wound. As the constraints of grammatical regularity and understatement are repeatedly broken and re-established, the poem grows more terrifying…Tedi López Mills expands family drama into critical conceptual questions as she drives home what Rimbaud meant when he wrote ‘Domesticity leads too far.'” \u003cstrong\u003e—Forrest Gander\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eDeath on Rua Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e Tedi López Mills eviscerates and devours a decaying emotional interior. This meticulously crafted diary, beautifully rendered into English by David Shook, of the unassuming and deeply possessed Gordon who has been shattered by obsessive love, is filled with sensual music and erotic perversion. Black and white magic has been exquisitely draped over his plastic California Eden. This is a gorgeous and fiendish gem of a book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Donald Breckenridge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of poetry and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes, including the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, \"Mexico's Pulitzer Prize,\" for her verse novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuerte en la rúa Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2009). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLópez Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the \"I.\" She lives in Mexico City, Mexico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Burk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was the recipient of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship to translate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She is the author of two chapbooks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Deer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place Names The Place Named\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and the translator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhile Light Is Built\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTin House, Colorado Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and other journals. 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His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery — protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewon the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. 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In addition to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2004) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1997), he is the author of the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eProbability of Merriment and Mooning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2001). His short stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. 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He hesitated. He could not bring himself to dial the number. What did he have to say to her? She had already decided not to go back to that secluded hinterland where, according to her, she had wasted three years of her youth, lonely and isolated. She would not return, even at the price of a divorce and losing the man she still loved. He had only two options: either give in to Fariba’s wishes and request a transfer to Isfahan, where he would have to live under her parents’ noses, or leave her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut was his problem the question of where they should live? Or whether they should separate or not? For a long time now, he had stopped caring about what would happen. Whether Fariba would stay or go, whether they would live in a small town or someplace else. He knew that, with or without her, whether they lived in a remote town or in Isfahan or Paris or New York—which Fariba always talked about with envy—none of it would make any difference. What the hell was wrong with him? What was he after? All he knew was that he had to carry out the cold-blooded decision he had made, even at the cost of a human life. He frightened himself. How had he come to this?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was not in the mood for breakfast. He took a cigarette from the pack that was on the coffee table, lit it, and sank back in the sofa. All he wanted was to just lie there, put his feet up on the table, balance the ashtray on his stomach, puff on his cigarette, and not think about the decision he had made. It was as if there were another Kamran inside him, one who did not want to be so heartless. If only he could just stay there forever, sprawled out and doing nothing. He heard his cell phone ring. He would not have answered it had the number on the screen not been that of the real estate agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Good morning, sir. I’m calling because I have found a buyer. 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But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely, while the novella mutates into another story. Cleverly translated by Jacob Steinberg, this Phoneme Media edition of a new novel by one of Mexico’s most notorious and celebrated writers includes a translator’s afterword and explanatory maps by illustrator Zsu Szkurka. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMario Bellatin (born in Mexico, 1960) has already gained a status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers. 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Mario Bellatin’s \u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing the artifice of the autobiographical genre, while cleverly celebrating the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eFebruary 16, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781939419491\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin now examines his most complicated subject; himself. Featuring three different autobiographies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenges the absurd and hubristic project of the autobiography itself — how can any writer account for himself in a way that is dignified yet honest? Intimate yet public? Like the Duchamp sculpture from which it takes its name, Mario Bellatin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing the artifice of the autobiographical genre, while cleverly celebrating the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMario Bellatin (born in Mexico, 1960) has already gained a status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers. Bellatin, who has been called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“controversial,” “a cult writer,” and an “eccentric public figure,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the author of dozens of intricate, compelling, and absolutely unique novels that have won numerous international literary awards, including the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Nacional de Literatura Mazatlán, Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Antonin Artaud Award, and the José María Arguedas Prize. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellatin's works have been translated into 21 languages. Previous books published in English include\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003eBeauty Salon, The Large Glass, Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, The Transparent Bird's Gaze, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Jacob the Mutant\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDavid Shook's many translations include work by Mario Bellatin, Tedi López Mills, and Víctor Terán. 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In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419545\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon. In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.” Hilary Kaplan’s translation is as contemporary and lyrical as the Portuguese-language original, a considerable feat considering the collection’s breakneck pace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Translation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2016 PEN Poetry Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this brilliant translation by Hilary Kaplan, Angélica Freitas shakes and blends the influences of her Brazilian forbears with international figures like Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mallarmé. Her poetry possesses an essential lightness that Italo Calvino believed to be the basis of good writing, along with quickness, exactitude, and visibility. This lightness brings momentum, weight, and wit. In Freitas’ “Cassino Beach,” for instance: “you prefer the raw \/ to the refined: \/ mouth oyster tongue \/ lake moon place \/ landscape with pine trees \/ in the background. you always \/ preferred the raw \/ to the reel, insomnia to \/ the barber of Seville…” Kaplan presents the dance and humor of Freitas’ Portuguese with a similar exactitude. No fabled saudade here, but the sound of an ocarina underwater in the Orinoco.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Paul Hoover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What a lovely collection of poems. They mix topics including arcade basketball, mustaches and Gertrude Stein into unexpected, funny and poignant delights.” \u003cstrong\u003e—A.J. Jacobs, New York Times-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eDrop Dead Healthy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wry, painfully funny and moving. Kaplan’s translation captures the formal invention and deadpan beauty of the original perfectly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sasha Dugdale, editor of \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a clever and profound collection, written with a light hand. It is translated as cleverly and as lightly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Natasha Dennerstein, \u003cem\u003eFourteen Hills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e, the Brazilian poet, Angélica Freitas, whips up a powerful tonic for even the most stubborn case of anxiety of influence: one cup Rilke, a pinch Gertrude Stein (farting in the tub), two tablespoons Poundian cadences, a dash of Marianne Moore, and toasted Blake, with five hundred hollygolightlies thrown in for good measure, the whole lot shaken not stirred.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tess Lewis, Three Percent at University of Rochester\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngélica Freitas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(b. 1973) is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke shake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2007) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUm útero é do tamanho de um punho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2012). Her graphic novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuadalupe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2012), published by Companhia das Letras, was illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Freitas’s poems have been translated and published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and English. She was awarded a Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship in 2009. Freitas co-edits the poetry journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModo de Usar \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand lives in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e‘s translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePEN America\u003c\/i\u003e, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeslocamentos Críticos\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/i\u003e. Kaplan lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42778227474681,"sku":"9781939419545","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/rilkeshake.png?v=1597067235"},{"product_id":"raised-by-wolves","title":"Raised by Wolves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Amang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Steve Bradbury\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2021 PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eBiting poetry and bold translation theory from a Taiwanese feminist poet and her translator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eSeptember 1, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781944700911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050208\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIncisive and confessional,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRaised by Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecollects the most acclaimed work of Taiwanese poet -filmmaker Amang. In her poems, Amang turns her razor-sharp eye to everything from her suitors (\"For twenty years I’ve loved you, twenty years \/ So why not say yes \/ You want to see my nude photos ?\") to international affairs —\"You’d have to win the lottery ten times over \/ And the U.N. hasn’t won it even once.\" Keenly observational yet occasionally absurd, these poems are urgent and lucid, as Amang embraces the cruelty and beauty of life in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRaised by Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealso presents a groundbreaking new framework for translation. Far from positing the transition between languages as an invisible and fixed process, Amang and translator Steve Bradbury let the reader in. Multiple English versions of the same Chinese poem often accompany dialogues between author and translator: the two debate as wide -ranging topics as the merits of English tenses, the role of Chinese mythology, and whether to tell the truth you have to lie a little, or a lot. Author, her poems, and translator, work in tandem, \"Wanting that which was unbearable \/ To appear unbearable \/ Just as it should be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmang\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised on the scenic east coast of Taiwan. She is the author of four volumes of verse: \u003cem\u003eOn\/Off: Selected Poems of Amang, 1995-2002 (2003), No Daddy (2008), Chariots of Women (2016),\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAs We Embrace Thousands Are Dying (2016)\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in various print and online journals in Asia and the United States. 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When art student Izu’s teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she publishes a firm rebuttal to his curation. Instead of responding with fury, the rich man pursues her hand in marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhen we meet her in the opening pages, Mrs. Murakami is watching the demolition of her now-dead husband’s most prized part of the estate: his garden. The novel that follows takes place in a strange, not-quite-real Japan of the author’s imagination. But who, in fact, holds the role of author? As Mr. Murakami’s garden is demolished, so too is the narrative’s authenticity, leaving the reader to wonder: did this book’s creator exist at all?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMario Bellatin has revolutionized the state of Latin American literature with his experimental, shocking novels. With this brand-new, highly anticipated edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMrs. Murakami's Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from lauded translator Heather Cleary, readers have access to a playful modern classic that transcends reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMario Bellatin\u003c\/strong\u003e (born in Mexico, 1960) has already gained a status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers. Bellatin, who has been called “controversial,” “a cult writer,” and an “eccentric public figure,” is the author of dozens of intricate, compelling, and absolutely unique novels that have won numerous international literary awards, including the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, the Premio Nacional de Literatura Mazatlán, the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Antonin Artaud Award, and the José María Arguedas Prize. Bellatin's works have been translated into 21 languages. Previous books published in English include \u003cem\u003eBeauty Salon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Transparent Bird's Gaze\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJacob the Mutant\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Stitou brilliantly parlays his relationship with his two homelands into a chronicle of identity, producing a vital account of cultural friction in poems that range from narrative to lyrical. Humor and seriousness go hand in hand, and the everyday combines with the surreal and the sublime to form a vibrant tension. This collection charts Stitou’s progress as a poet of emotion and intellect, one who poignantly illuminates the ambiguities of cultural identities, and the intersections of our inner and outer worlds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMustafa Stitou\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Tetouan, Morocco, in 1974, and grew up in Lelystad in the Netherlands. He currently lives in Amsterdam, where he studied philosophy at the UVA. 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He has won many prizes, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker), and most recently the James Brockway Prize for his translations of Dutch poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today's \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Translations of 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the VSB Poetry Prize and the Jan Campert Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCity Poet of Amsterdam 2009\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If the essence of poetry is to break with expectations, Mustafa Stitou is conceivably an ideal poet.“ \u003cstrong\u003e—Mischa Andriessen, \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A pleasure to read and reread. 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But it\u003c\/span\u003e also signals the presence of new elements. One of them is an extensive reliance on found language, the preferred mode of Anglophone conceptual writers, here acquiring a distinctly Eastern European flavor. Another is his candor, which teases readers with glimpses of his most private feelings. Bleak and terse, Wróblewski subjects his material to almost clinical treatment in order to better dissect and so understand the series of events that we call reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"Prolonged nudity as an enhanced interrogation technique. The Juice Probe that looks for life on one of Jupiter's moons. A wish to be reincarnated as a crab. The memory of something velvety. This is the realm of melancholic hilarity that \u003ci\u003eZero Visibility\u003c\/i\u003e occupies: at moments hallucinatory, at other moments rooted in hard reality. Found language is collaged with the imaginative workings of a brilliant mind, and the result is revelation, both funny and tragic.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Sharon Mesmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eZero Visibility\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, seductive, provocative, unsettling collection. Wróblewski continually pulls the rug out from under his reader.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Leonard Kress, \u003ci\u003eWaxwing Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823769878777,"sku":"9781944700126","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/zero_visibility_cover.jpg?v=1603488621"},{"product_id":"habitus","title":"Habitus","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Radna Fabias\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by David Colmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2019 Grand Poetry Prize of the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Aan Zee Poetry Debut Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the C Buddinhh’ Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Awater Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Herman de Coninck Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn explosive entry into the world of poetry from Radna Fabias, the most acclaimed debut poet ever in the Dutch language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/two-poems-radna-fabias\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/two-poems-radna-fabias\/\"\u003eRead \"demonstrable effort made\" and \"the blackness of the hole\" in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/poems.com\/poem\/is-is-like\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/poems.com\/poem\/is-is-like\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead \u003c\/em\u003e\"is, is like,\" Poetry Daily's poem of the day\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: October 12, 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646050987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050994\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSubversive, visual, and bold, Curaçao-born Dutch Radna Fabias’ explosive debut collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emarks the entry of a genre-altering poet.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a collection full of thrilling sensory images, lines in turn grim and enchanting which move from the Caribbean island of Curaçao to the immigrant experience of the Netherlands. Fabias’ intrepid masterpiece explores issues of racism, neo-colonialism, poverty, and sexism with a heartbreaking rhythm and endless nuance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroken into three parts (“View with coconut,” “Rib,” and “Demonstrable effort made”),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the profound struggles of melancholic longing, womanhood, religion, and migration. This ambitious, powerful, and compassionate collection has emerged, cheering on ambiguity, fluidity, and a lyrical ego on a quest to find its home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRadna Fabias\u003c\/strong\u003e was born on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and moved to the Netherlands to study at the age of seventeen. Her first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2018 to universal acclaim and went on to win an unprecedented five Dutch and Belgian poetry prizes. \u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e has also been translated into French, with Spanish, German, and Italian editions in production\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Colmer\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Australian translator who lives in Amsterdam. He has won many prizes, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker), and most recently the James Brockway Prize for his translations of Dutch poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"yj6qo\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Moving from the Caribbean Island of Curaçao to the Netherlands, this debut collection explores neocolonialism, poverty, religion and womanhood.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—“Globetrotting,” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe reader is energetically flung through space by the irregular stanza breaks, enjambment, and narrative trajectories that feel fresh and unpredictable…Everything lonely and broken is raised by Fabias not into some utopian vision but into humanness. Readers will be humbled by the revelations of such a surreal and turbulent intelligence.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Megan Fernandes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarriet Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Radna Fabias practices her craft in the spirit of a stranger and strangeness, liberty and lyricism, truth and transience.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e—Matt Sutherland,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Radna Fabias’s debut collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHabitus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e advances geographically, temporally, and thematically—almost narratively—yet at the same time feels resonantly still, as though each line echoes the entire collection…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e[Fabias] grapevines between moments of beauty\/intimacy and biting, ironic assessments of the speaker’s surroundings.”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Action Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“'The juiciest lie is splendor,' one poem in Radna Fabias’s incantatory \u003cem\u003eHabitus\u003c\/em\u003e begins, and reading the book I couldn’t get those words out of my head. Another poem tells us of 'the wall that wasn’t there' that 'didn’t fall,' saying 'there were no explosives it wasn’t a war nothing blew up.' There is something extraordinary happening in this book, something recursive and apophatic and totally, somehow, unprecedented. 'i peel the prints from my fingers,' she writes. It’s an unforgettable collection, among the best debuts I’ve read in ages.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Kaveh Akbar, \u003cem\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I was stunned and thrilled by these poems. They have a confident, clear, strange, wild energy, along with the rage and wisdom and humor of a soul who understands the terrors and beauties of this world. They are the electric record of an exceptional imagination. I love these poems and can’t wait to see what’s next.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Matthew Zapruder, \u003ci\u003eWhy Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFather’s Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40185907937443,"sku":"9781646050987","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":40185907970211,"sku":"9781646050994","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/habitus-RGB.jpg?v=1620162950"},{"product_id":"the-gleaner-song","title":"The Gleaner Song","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Song Lin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Dong Li\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gleaner Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the lauded poet brings joy and contemplation of poetic expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a curious poet who opens himself to the world around him. His songs migrate from one word to another, from one language to another. The landscape of his travels becomes a map of his poetry, which, in turn, amounts to a sensitive anthropology of our migratory world.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eDong Li,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe World Migrating: On Translating Song Lin \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eNovember 16, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646051458\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSong Lin is one of China’s most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year before leaving China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made by the translator Dong Li and the poet himself, spans four decades of poetic exploration, with a focus on poems written during the poet’s long stay in France, Singapore, Argentina, and more recently, his return to China. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs a result of his wanderings, Song Lin may be thought of as an international poet, open to an unusual extent to influences – though informed by the classics and a thorough study of the Chinese language, his poetry weaves through American, French, and Latin-American traditions. His influences are the modernists, the surrealists, the romantics, the deep imagists and the objectivists—but what distinguishes Song is his ability to absorb them all, and make them his own. From the experience of displacement and exile, his poetry continues to open and expand its horizons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Throughout his career, as \u003cem\u003eThe Gleaner Song \u003c\/em\u003eattests, Song Lin has sustained a courageous clarity about poetry.”\u003cstrong\u003e —David Woo, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Formed by his personal travails and layered experimentation, Song Lin's work explores a freer and wider spectrum of poetry.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eBei Dao, \u003cem\u003eThe Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“'Should our homeland be not barbaric?' Song Lin asks, I think, for all of us. Because his poetry is influenced by, but independent of Western poetries, you may want to abandon your expectations in order to encounter it. Thematic and grammatical shifts, temporal instabilities, and disconcerting image and tonal repertoires juxtaposing the fantastic ('a word strangled by the umbilical cord') with the quotidian ('a girl by the window'), the violent (executions) with the mundane (pimples) convey the profound unsettlement at the heart of Song Lin’s work and world. We’re so fortunate that these remarkable poems break into English for us through Dong Li, himself an exceptional poet and multi-lingual translator.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Forrest Gander, \u003cem\u003eBe With\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"Dong Li is a poet’s ideal translator: he dexterously and comfortably teleports himself across all elegiac portals of reality. Here, Li has turned translation into a pagoda, an empire, where his imagination and his high aptitude for polyglottal share the same thunderbolt as a hot spring. It is a translation worthy of their persuasive, bizarre edge, elusive in their tortured gadgets, and has a birch-bark way of leaving a faintly invisible, familiar, expatriated ink in the reader’s soul after a short time sitting still with a fugacious blueberry.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Vi Khi Nao, \u003cem\u003eA Bell Curve is Pregnant Straight Line\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ii gt\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eGleaner\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a deeply moving ‘letter from elsewhere,’ shaped by \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSong\u003c\/span\u003e Lin’s exiled life and existential restlessness. The gifted, multilingual poet Dong Li has attentively translated and tracked \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSong\u003c\/span\u003e’s language that paints ‘the true picture of the earth’ as it orbits history, memory, distance, and nearness as well as clusters of stars such as C.D. Wright, Paul Celan, and Anselm Kiefer.” \u003cstrong\u003e–Don Mee Choi, \u003cem\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ii gt\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"...Song makes places known to us, connecting lands and lives—Borges, Celan, Ernst, Mandelstam, CD Wright—into a web of specificity. He writes through the pain of dislocation, without easy generalizations or flattery, but with deep seeing. Translator Dong Li keeps the language of these poems surprising, felt, and unprecious.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Kronovet, \u003cem\u003eThe Wug Test\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBiographical Note\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSong Lin\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most distinctive poets from the People’s Republic of China. The author of numerous books of poetry, poetry anthologies and prose, his \u003cem\u003eSunday Sparrows\u003c\/em\u003e was published in English translation by Zephyr Press in 2019 and two previous collections \u003cem\u003eFragments and Farewell Songs \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCity Walls and Sunset \u003c\/em\u003ewere published bilingually in France. He is the poetry editor of the journal \u003cem\u003eJintian [Today]\u003c\/em\u003e. Among his honours are fellowships from the Nederlands, Romania, and Hong Kong as well as the Shanghai, Dong Dang Zi, Chang Yao Literature Prizes. He has held residencies at OMI Ledig House Translation Lab and Vermont Studio Centre. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDong Li \u003c\/strong\u003eis a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French and German. He is the English translator of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Great Wall \u003c\/em\u003e(Phoneme Media, 2018) by the Chinese poet Zhu Zhu, the German co-translator (with Lea Schneider) of \u003cem\u003eGesellschaft für Flugversuche \u003c\/em\u003e(Carl Hanser Verlag, 2019) by the Chinese poet Zang Di and the Chinese translator of 《相伴》\u003cem\u003eBe With \u003c\/em\u003e(East China Normal University Press, 2021) by the American poet Forrest Gander. For his own literary projects, he has received fellowships from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Camargo and Humboldt Foundations, and Yaddo. 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In this remarkable volume, the Russian poets and American translators who were paired for this initiative present their collaborative work in a bilingual format, in which each pair will share a poem in both languages, and join in a conversation about the pleasures, challenges, and intimacies of translation. English-reading audiences will have an opportunity to experience the boldness and stylistic and thematic range of the work originating from a vital poetry scene. 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The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy—the narrator of the poems—looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine moments with sweeps of time, village scenes with rumblings of societal and technological change. In the tradition of Hungarian writers Péter Nádas and Ágota Kristóf, Jenei grapples with war and destruction, loneliness, desire, and loss. The literary historian Éva Bánki calls Jenei “one of the great masters of Hungarian free verse”—adding that his poems also hold an epic theme, “the strange underworld of the Kádár era, rural Hungary shown through a child’s eye.” Through their storytelling, searching, and rhythms, these poems take us into our communal yet private longing for self-knowledge, history, and home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical information\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGyula Jenei (born in 1962 in Abádszalók, Hungary) is a poet, writer, editor, and educator. 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Senechal teaches English, American civilization, and British civilization at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the great masters of Hungarian free verse.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Éva Bánki\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"What are we looking for in our childhood when we take stock of such and such events, sins, tragedies?... A silent poet whose every word I hear.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLászló Darvasi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Real lyrical ingenuity.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFerenc Simon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"One afternoon I read through Gyula Jenei's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlways Different\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, more than a hundred pages of poetry, and after the first poems I said to myself that yes, this is my world.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVince Fekete \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The culmination of a lyrical material with a rich past.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Ádám Sebestyén\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"One of the most striking registers of Hungarian poetry of the 2000s... So naturally embraces the pulse of the Hungarian language that every memory that is expressed in them thus suddenly emerges from insignificant mundaneness and finds itself confronted with eternity.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Balázs Fűzfa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41394567250083,"sku":"9781646051236","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":41394567282851,"sku":null,"price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/AlwaysDifferent-RGB.jpg?v=1630703486"},{"product_id":"when-the-night-agrees-to-speak-to-me","title":"When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ananda Devi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Kazim Ali\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 2024\u003cbr\u003eShort-listed for the National Translation Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051892\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a collection that transgresses genre lines with poetic, autobiographical flow. The pieces herein address the resonance of personal memories and regrets, the political world, and sexuality. In light of the complexity of human identity, Devi emphasizes the importance of each word chosen, speaking directly to the reader and asking them to “peel back my skin. Unclothe me of myself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mauritius, Ananda Devi is one of the major French language writers and was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010. Her literary awards include the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (2006) and Prix Télévision Suisse Romande (2007) for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the Prix Louis-Guilloux (2010) and the Prix Mokanda (2012) for other works. 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Translated with calm dexterity and breathtaking attention by Kazim Ali, this is a collection that held my body—eyes and heart and brain—in its jaws from beginning till end.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Karthika Naïr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ananda Devi is an Indian writer from Mauritius now living in France, or a French writer with her roots on the island and South Asia, or a Mauritian writer in the tradition of great colonized voices who have renewed French poetry and prose—or a feminist poet and novelist without borders. 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class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 24\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 28\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 31\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 34\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 38\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 43\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 47\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a sailor on Christopher Columbus’ ship La Pinta, and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs the poem threads draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his travels through the twentieth century, encounters Odysseus, Cervantes, Columbus, Rembrandt, and others, all moving in multidimensional synchronicity. In this way, the readers take part in the production of meaning by pulling the threads together, stitching together their own reading of the story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough the reading of these threads, time remains fluid, creating a masterful declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleni Kefala\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Cyprus and is currently a Professor of Latin American Literature at St. Andrews University in Scotland. She has published two books of poetry,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemory and Variations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007), which was shortlisted for the Diavazo Literary Prize in Greece (first-time author), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime Stitches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(published in Greek in 2013), which received the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus. Her work has been translated into English, Italian, French, Turkish, and Bulgarian. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Constantine\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary translator and editor, and the director of the Literary Translation Program at the University of Connecticut. His recent translations, published by Random House (Modern Library), include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Essential Writings of Rousseau, The Essential Writings of Machiavelli\u003c\/em\u003e, and works by Tolstoy, Gogol, and Voltaire. His translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel received the Koret Jewish Literature Award and a National Jewish Book Award citation. A Guggenheim Fellow, he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSix Early Stories by Thomas Mann\u003c\/em\u003e, and the National Translation Award for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Undiscovered Chekhov\u003c\/em\u003e. His debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Purchased Bride\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published by Deep Vellum in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42432815399161,"sku":"9781646051847","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42432815431929,"sku":"9781646051854","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/TimeStiches_RGB.jpg?v=1645213752"},{"product_id":"motherfield","title":"Motherfield","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Valzhyna Mort \u0026amp; Hanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/i\u003e is a poet’s insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eNovember, 22nd 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781646052257\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646052516 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone during her childhood. The book opens with a poet’s diary recording the violence that has unfolded in Belarus since its 2020 presidential election.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e paints an intimate portrait of the poet’s struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and friends, and ultimately chooses life in exile. But can she really escape the contaminated farmlands of her youth and her Belarusian mother tongue? Can she escape the radiation of her motherfield?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first collection of Julia Cimafiejeva’s poetry in English, prepared by cotranslators and poets Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Belarusian poet and translator, and the author of four poetry collections in Belarusian. Her work has been translated into many languages and appeared in different projects, anthologies and magazines, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry International, Literary Hub, Financial Times, Lyrikline,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and others. Cimafiejeva translates from English and Norwegian. She is the winner of Carlos Sherman prize for the translations of poems by Stephen Crane. She currently lives in Graz, Austria with her husband, where she has been since 2020 at the invitation of the Kulturvermittlung Steiermark.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eValzhyna Mort\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eFactory of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), \u003ci\u003eCollected Body\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently, \u003ci\u003eMusic for the Dead and Resurrected\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of multiple award-winning and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling books, including poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Crown Ain't Worth Much\u003c\/i\u003e (Button Poetry, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eA Fortune for Your Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House, 2019) and nonfiction collections \u003ci\u003eThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), \u003ci\u003eGo Ahead in the Rain: A Tribe Called Quest\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House, 2021).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The language I wish to speak \/ isn't contained in words,\" writes Julia Cimafiejeva, while giving us these moving words of witness and testimony, compelling poems of kinship, of bravery and fear and reckoning: \"we came back for a visit,\" she writes, \"only cemetery crosses \/ waved at us with rags \/ of their embroidered towels.\" There is so much lyricism in this painful reckoning, the language itself uplifts even as it doubts itself in a time of great upheaval: \"I approach the territory of a foreign language \/ as a melancholy spy \/ I must steal a secret \/ of these strange hills.\" Poetry here doesn't just survive despite translation between languages, but because of it. And for that, my special gratitude is to Cimafiejeva's brilliant translators, Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib. The horrors of reality in today's Belarus, the beatings and tortures of prisoners, the eerie presence of Chernobyl disaster in these pages, all true, all heart-breaking, and all also somehow carried through to us by beautiful, memorable, unrelenting words.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003cem\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e“Julia Cimafiejeva’s \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e is a minefield of memory. I close my eyes, recall the events that unfolded in my own country in 2020 and 2021. The similarities of our recent histories—the stun grenades, rubber bullets, beatings, and detentions—are striking. Still, there’s no mistaking \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e’s singularity, which is to say Cimafiejeva’s dexterity.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nicole Sealey, author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A dual-language publication, \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e reads like a testament to the innate multilingualism of Belarus. And after all, what Belarusians say matters just as much as what language they say it in. . . In \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e, Cimafiejeva has proved herself to be a bad student of fear. She wields her flexed, forceful verses like that mightiest of muscles — the tongue.\" \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jennifer Wilson, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A devastatingly beautiful and essential read.\"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —Pierce Alquist, \u003cem\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e is a forceful diptych pairing the poet’s protest diary (spanning the period from Belarus’ 2020 presidential election to March 2021, after the poet has settled in Austria) with poems flowing from days full of fear and hope.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Layla Benitez-James, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering historical, political, and personal context to the poems that follow it, the diary is an activist’s account, but it is also a poet’s account; some of its moves and images linger and react with the poems’ more distilled elements…In the end the speaker keeps a 'beaten hope' that 'builds its nest \/ On my roof and sings \/ In Belarusian.' This poem, unlike others, is dated: August 5, 2020, just before the election, before the crackdown, before the president remained, again, in power. The beginning is at the end, enacting the cyclical nature of the “beaten hope” the poem names…[I]f \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e’s final poem relies on the protest diary for context, the poems that precede it—their images of wordlessness, thwarted regeneration, and ecological catastrophe—give the book its depth, and announce Julia Cimafiejeva as a poet that English language readers will want to follow in the future.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Jessica Johnson, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book is a sword; its poems cut through so much clutter to the white-hot \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewire of social, political, and personal injustice—warranted, searingly expressed, and yet somehow also nondogmatic, intuitively right, and artistically original. These poems speak volumes; to an astute reader, they can also serve as a warning. It is a voice that deserves and rewards our attention—hopefully you can give it yours.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —Andrew Singer, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42861493289209,"sku":"9781646052257","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42861493321977,"sku":"9781646052516","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/9781646052257_FC.jpg?v=1654119346"},{"product_id":"herostories","title":"Herostories","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by K.B. 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Forgoing traditional sagas of androcentric conquest, these poems center the adventures of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eljósmæður\u003c\/i\u003e, “mothers of light.” Tómasdóttir leverages epic elements—dashing mountain treks, rivers forded on horseback, unyielding compassion—to challenge how and by whom stories become legend. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow-up to Tómasdóttir and Thors’ award-winning, PEN-nominated\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStormwarning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHerostories\u003c\/em\u003e documents the professional achievements of Iceland's first women to work outside the home, precursors to today’s midwives who remain central to contemporary healthcare on the island. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond archival recognition, the text's formally ambitious poetics render gender-based battles for literacy and education alongside narratives of selfless womanly caretaking, pressurizing the fundamental tensions between feminine self-actualization and the romanticized service of these trailblazing figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristín Svava Tómasdóttir\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and historian in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has published four books of poetry:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlótgælur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2007),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkrælingjasýningin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2011),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStormviðvörun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2015) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHetjusögur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020), the latest one being awarded the Icelandic Women´s Prize for Fiction.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStormviðvörun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas translated into English by K.B. Thors as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStormwarning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand published in a bilingual edition in the United States by Phoneme Media in 2018. For her translation, Thors won the American-Scandinavian Foundation‘s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for translated poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eK.B. 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In these remarkable pieces, Liu intertwines South China’s landscapes and plants—such as scarlet canna, banyan, and white myoga ginger—with reflections on honor, duty, banishment, and belonging in ways unique in the history of Chinese poetry. The two translators, Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton and Yu Yuanyuan, one American and one Chinese, preserve and showcase the singular beauty of Liu's poetic garden for the English-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiu Zongyuan\u003c\/strong\u003e (773 – 28 November 819) was a Chinese philosopher, poet, and politician who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi. 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Her recent poetry translation appears in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Hall, The World Poets Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e etc. Her translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, “the only truly international journal in Britain” (James Kirkup), \u003ci\u003ePoetry Hall, The World Poets Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTranslating China\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These new translations by Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton and Yu Yuanyuan are wonderfully redolent, and yet stripped-back with an almost concrete quality. They gain in emotional weight by being quite deliberately kept to their bare bones. The melancholy of Liu Zongyuan’s sustained and powerful work rings true.”  \u003cstrong\u003e—Sasha Dugdale, author of \u003cem\u003eJoy\u003c\/em\u003e and translator of Maria Stepanova’s \u003cem\u003eIn Memory of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Thinking of home, my grief sharpens,’ Liu writes. 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Through these quietly shining poems, Liu is revealed as a lost jewel of Chinese poetry and is restored to the crown where he belongs.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tony Barnstone, translator with Chou Ping of \u003cem\u003eThe Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42878482514169,"sku":"9781646052172","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42878482546937,"sku":"9781646052431","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/files\/9781646052172_FC.jpg?v=1690400410"},{"product_id":"the-law-of-conservation","title":"The Law of Conservation","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMariana Spada\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Robin Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing a preface by Esther Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Law of Conservation\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eAugust 22, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646052226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646052486\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorders blurred as cities cede to rural land; the body as a changing place on an equally unstable map; the subsoil of sexuality; the terrain of memory, both rich and painful; new countries traveled and new roots set down as an adult, navigating desire, loneliness, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the context of gender and sexual identity, Spada’s work pays subtle, incisive attention to the inextricable relationship between transformation and conservation: transformation toward the experience of honoring and protecting our deepest and most abiding truths. At the same time, her poems also unsparingly explore the external shifts (in the speaker’s surroundings and even her memories) that make it so challenging to retain an unassailable sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMariana Spada\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1979. She studied Literature in Santa Fe, Argentina, and lived in Buenos Aires for about a decade before moving to Barcelona, Spain, where she currently resides. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Law of Conservation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Mexico City-based poet and Spanish-to-English translator. 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The book is divided into three sections that complement and respond to each other. The first, “Love Training,” focuses on family, loss, relationships, desire, and a sense of anchoring in the world. The second, “Fictions of Sight,” is concerned with questions of perception, perspective, language and creativity. The third, “I Don’t Know Why,” is a whimsical set of interconnected poems that ask unanswered questions, serving as a kind of coda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Andrés Neuman is a rightly celebrated and widely translated novelist, he is also a lucid—and quite prolific—poet.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Training\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first volume to make his sensitive, incisive poems available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 8\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrés Neuman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was selected as one of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was included on the Bogotá-39 list. He is the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction books, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraveler of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(FSG), which won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Things We Don’t Do\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Open Letter Books), which received the Firecracker Award for Fiction. His poetry was awarded the Federico García Lorca and Hiperión Prizes, among others. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a Mexico City-based poet and Spanish-to-English translator. 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Publishing since 1979, Pirbal has authored more than seventy books of writing and translation and serves as one of Kurdistan’s farthest-reaching voices. In 1994, he founded the Sharafkhan Bidlisi Cultural Center in Hawler. 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Sorkin, with Diana Manole, Lidia Vianu, Claudia Serea, Rareșa Galaicu, Cristina Cîrstea Danilov \u0026amp; Stefania Hirtopanu\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 8\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 9, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646052745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646052950\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Moldova’s most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanting Arms\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s work to Anglophone readers, is comprised of a career-spanning selection of his work produced from 1989–2019. These poems—sardonic and visionary as well as surprising—unsettle the normative poetic form, a reflection of Moldova’s unorthodox national history as a product of the clash of many historical narratives of empire, a crossroad between East and West. This collection, the work of Adam J. Sorkin with six co-translators, shows everything from his earlier poems, full of scriptural and erotic references, to later work full of complex political, historical, and psychological considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilian Galaicu-Păun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in 1964 in Unchitești, Republic of Moldova. His books of poetry include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLumina proprie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1986),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbece-Dor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1989),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevitații deasupra hăului\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1991),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCel bătut îl duce pe cel nebătut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1994),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYin Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1999),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGestuar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2002),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArme grăitoare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2009), and a career retrospective,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA–Z.best\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2012). His prose volumes are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGesturi. Trilogia nimicului\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1996),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoezia de după poezie. Ultimul deceniu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1999), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eȚesut viu: 10 x 10\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2011). His poetry, in Adam J. Sorkin’s collaborative translations, appears in the anthologies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2003),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fine Line: New Poetry from Eastern and Central Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2004),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew European Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2008), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorn in Utopia: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2006); and in the literary journals\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e3:am\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsinthe: New European Writing\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnotation Press\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoezia\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(forthcoming). Galaicu-Păun is editor-in-chief at Cartier Publishing House, Chișinău, and has won numerous awards in Romania and Moldova. In 2014, the president of Moldova awarded him the Order of Cultural Merit in the Grade of Office. In 2015, he was one of the National Prize laureates of Moldova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam J. Sorkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas published more than fifty books of translation. His work has won the 2005 Poetry Society Prize for European Poetry Translation as well as the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, the Ioan Flora Prize for Poetry Translation, and the Poesis Translation Prize, among others. His most recent publications include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Sharp Double-Edged Luxury Object\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Rodica Draghincescu (Červená Barva, 2014), translated with Antuza Genescu;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGold and Ivy\/Aur și iederă\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby George Vulturescu (Eikon, 2014), translated with Olimpia Iacob;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Starry Womb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Mihail Gălățanu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Petru Iamandi and the author; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Marta Petreu (Diálogos, 2014), translated with Christina Zarifopol-Illias and Liviu Bleoca. His translation of Floarea Țuțuianu’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSyllables of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis forthcoming from Plamen Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Galaicu-Păun’s poetry is a volcanic, baroque discourse, expansive in its themes and relentless in its imaginative avalanches . . . [His] poetry essentializes even as it gets loose, and it also stretches at the very moment when the vision dramatically contracts.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Al. Cistelecan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Galaicu-Paun transforms the buzz of information into the pulsating lyric, the cavalcade of voices we live within becomes his fabric, language his material for new visions, twisted and transformed through the erotic and the divine. Galaicu-Paun writes a world of living tissue, bodies and blood, words and wit, driven by intense mental energy.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Cotter, translator of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43570537726201,"sku":"9781646052745","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":43570537758969,"sku":"9781646052950","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/9781646052745_FC.jpg?v=1680729843"},{"product_id":"the-long-coming-of-the-fire","title":"The Long Coming of the Fire","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAco Šopov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRawley Grau and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eChristina E. Kramer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA collection celebrating the Centennial of seminal modernist Macedonian poet Aco Šopov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eOctober 10, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781646053032\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646053186\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis substantive collection represents Šopov's creative career, starting with his first book of poetry in 1944, when he was fighting in the Yugoslav resistance to the German occupation. In the early 1950s, he published two collections that signaled a new direction for Macedonian poetry as a whole, announcing the arrival of new form “intimate lyricism”. Over the next 25 years, Šopov's work deepened further, acquiring a philosophical cosmic dimension and at times venturing into surrealism. \u003cem\u003eThe Long Coming of the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e shares the work of a consummate craftsman little-known in the Anglophone world, achieving a “penetrating, resonant, and melodic” poetic language with “a lively and pregnant imagery that binds together the experience of the author and reader” (Graham W. Reid).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eInformation\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAco Šopov\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1923 in the town of Štip, in what is today North Macedonia. His first book was published by the underground press in 1944, when he was fighting in the anti-Fascist resistance. By the early 1950s, he was a major Macedonian poet, notable for his deep personal lyricism. His volumes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot-Being\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNebidnina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1963) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader of the Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGledač na pepelta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1970) are genuine masterworks, establishing his reputation as one of the founders of modern Macedonian poetry. Here Šopov’s poetry expands into philosophical and existential questions, even as it remains firmly rooted in an exploration of the self. The book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Black Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePesna na crnata žena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1976) emerged from Šopov’s years as the Yugoslav ambassador to Senegal (from 1971 to 1975), a period when he also produced an award-winning translation of poems by the poet and Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor. His health began to deteriorate in 1977, and his struggle with illness is reflected in his last book of poems, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tree on the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1980). He died in 1982, at the age of 58. Collections of Šopov’s work have been translated into eleven languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Hungarian, and Romanian. The bilingual English–Macedonian collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Coming of the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first major edition of Šopov’s poetry in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"Rawley Grau and Christina E. 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Through vivid imagery, Lima evokes São Tomé and Príncipe, from popular Santomean music to imagery of fishermen on the beach, while remaining ever aware of the subjective meeting of memory, time, and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConceição Lima\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas born in 1961 in the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, where she resides today. She studied journalism in Portugal and attended graduate school in London, where she later worked as a producer at the BBC’s Portuguese Language Service. She has published four books of poetry:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eO Útero da Casa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(The Womb of the House) in 2004,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(The Painful Root of the Micondó) in 2006,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eO País de Akendenguê\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(The Country of Akendenguê) in 2011, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuando Florirem Salambás no Tecto do Pico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(When Velvet Tamarinds Flower on Pico de São Tomé) in 2015. Her work in Shook’s translation has appeared in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJai-Alai\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a poet and translator whose work with Conceição Lima has been recognized with a 2017 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and as a winner of the 2021 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2025 Northern California Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMs. Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003eBest Poetry of 2024 and 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lima maps the legacy of slavery and violence onto the island, ever-attentive to what lay beneath its seemingly innocuous buildings, including her own home.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePoetry Foundation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Carefully curated, beautifully translated… The poems in this volume brim with intensity and poignancy.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—World Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—NewSouth Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lima should be considered a major contemporary African poet; hopefully the publication of \u003cem\u003eNo Gods Live Here\u003c\/em\u003e, which makes so much of her work available in English translation, will raise her profile beyond the Portuguese-speaking world.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePortuguese Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This prize-winning translation haunts. In the vein of a paracolonial text, the poem examines the specters of a racialized human commodity and its ecological aftermath. As if magic or conjure, ‘Afroinsularity’ launches with hints of ghosts and ends in a colony of haints. The reading of each deftly interpreted line thrusts the reader to beautifully confront the ways in which land holds the stories that history attempts to colonize, and how land will out the truth until the long-buried rest.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Airea D. Matthews, 2021 Judge of the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Conceição Lima has emerged in the postcolonial period as one of lusophone Africa's foremost contemporary poets.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Russell G. 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