{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-peace","title":"Sonic Peace","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kiriu Minashita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSonic Peace is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700409\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\u003e“Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed,” Kiriu Minashita says in the afterword to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “the world is being ecstatically eroded by the violent rewriting of meaning.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo. 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In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany addiction and the struggle to reconcile that pain with the deep love and strength necessary to hold a family together through it all. As much a story of resilience as it is suffering, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Love Story of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a bittersweet account of the complexities of addiction, the power of creativity, and the redemption of love.\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\u003eMärta Tikkanen\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1935) is a Finnish-Swedish journalist, writer, and teacher. 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This collection, lyrical and imagistic, where between death and silence is remembrance, where shadow after shadow resides, ‘whispers: guess who it is…’ And the poet leaves us wondering because it is wonder that takes us closer to love’s many versions, to an intimacy weaved in nation and exile. The poems in this unforgettable collection ground us, and give us flight.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nathalie Handal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To put it simply, Lyn Coffin’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency, because Mohsen Emadi’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Venegas, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e9\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeath is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats.\u003cbr\u003eLove is when the heart beats and the clock does not beat.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps this simple comparison explains\u003cbr\u003ewhy you glanced at your watch.\u003cbr\u003eYou knew that waiting is the dense endurance of eternity\u003cbr\u003eand love, the miracle of mortals,\u003cbr\u003emakes eternity ashamed,\u003cbr\u003ebut death does not wait for anybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long summer afternoon\u003cbr\u003ewas going down on coffins and clock towers\u003cbr\u003ethe ruins knew\u003cbr\u003eand you did not know\u003cbr\u003ethat war makes waiting invalid\u003cbr\u003eand saving life\u003cbr\u003ethe whole Truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas she dead?\u003cbr\u003eHad she fled without you?\u003cbr\u003eOr you were not in love anymore?\u003cbr\u003eThe dead were not answering.\u003cbr\u003eThe living were escaping\u003cbr\u003eand love from then on\u003cbr\u003ebeat within\u003cbr\u003ethe pulsing of a clock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBorn in Iran, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohsen Emadi \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis the award-winning author of four collections of poetry published in Iran and Spain. 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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. 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Vollmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDictionary of Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew’s poems chart a personal cartography of exile, recounting the recent political history of Kurdistan and its struggle for independence. Poet-translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse worked with the poet to select and translate his most iconic poems, balancing well-known, politically engaged contemporary Kurdish classics like “12 Lessons for Children” with the concise love lyrics that have always punctuated his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen he gives readings in Kurdistan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbdulla Pashew\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws audiences in the thousands. In addition to his eight volumes of poetry, Pashew is a prolific translator, fluent in Russian and English, responsible for bringing Whitman and Pushkin to Kurdish readership. He holds a master's degree in pedagogy and a doctorate in philology. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDictionary of Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first book-length selection of his poetry to appear in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, translator, and co-director of Kashkul, a research, translation, and arts collaborative. She has lived and worked in Iraq since 2011, during which time she has dedicated herself to bringing Kurdish poets to English-speaking audiences, including Kajal Ahmad's \u003cem\u003eHandful of Salt\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo poems by Abdulla Pashew have been excerpted in \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDictionary of Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e shows the lasting haunt of exile, but also the evocative powers of writing as testament to personal strife and a people's lifelong yearning for home.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExile\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen exile blows like a storm\u003cbr\u003eover the plains of my peace,\u003cbr\u003ewhen sadness like the black crow\u003cbr\u003eat the threshold of my room\u003cbr\u003eopens its wings and hovers,\u003cbr\u003eI take the frozen-winged sparrow\u003cbr\u003eof my grief and\u003cbr\u003eI go, I go\u003cbr\u003eto find a child\u003cbr\u003ewho with his sunny eyes can thaw\u003cbr\u003ethe wings of my sparrow and remind it how to fly.\u003cbr\u003eBut, my dear,\u003cbr\u003ewith my own eyes, many times I have seen\u003cbr\u003ethat when the children\u003cbr\u003ein this city grieve,\u003cbr\u003ethey waddle like little ducks\u003cbr\u003eto bathe in the lake of your eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35465043443875,"sku":"9781944700805","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35465043476643,"sku":"9781646050222","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/dictionarycover.jpg?v=1596661548"},{"product_id":"cold-moons","title":"Cold Moons","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Magnús Sigurðsson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Meg Matich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700096\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2015 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eMagnús Sigurðsson’s spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. 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Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: May 10, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419781\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. 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. 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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. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his short story collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehave been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media’s City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYaghoub Yadali\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoshd Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as the editor of the film section. 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. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eCensoring an Iranian Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e by Shahriar Mandanipour, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e by Parinoush Saniee, \u003ci\u003eKissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e by Shahrnush Parsipur, and \u003ci\u003ePomegranate Lady and Her Sons\u003c\/i\u003e by Goli Taraghi. She has also translated several volumes of poetry by Forough Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Siavash Kasraii, and Fereydoon Moshiri. Her translations of Mandanipour’s short stories have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEPOCH\u003c\/i\u003e, Words without Borders, and \u003ci\u003ePEN America\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 Golshiri Foundation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed \"One of the Top Ten Best Novels of the Decade\" by the Press Critics Award in Iran\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As Kamran descends further into a black hole, his nihilistic tendencies come to the fore, at times I was reminded of Dostoyevsky…A readable, enjoyable and enlightening debut in the City of Asylum series and a very worthwhile project to support, one I hope continues for many years to come.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tony Messenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s a fascinating, and surprisingly suspenseful read about the struggle to find meaning in a life that seems largely out of your control.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Laura Farmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe picked up the telephone to call Fariba, who was sulking and had gone to her father’s house in Isfahan. 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. You said you’re in a hurry, and I wanted to let you know as soon as possible so that we can arrange to show him the house.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is it for cash?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of course, sir, all cash. And it’s up to you how much you’re willing to lower the price. As I explained yesterday, cash customers are hard to come by, and I can’t coax and sweet-talk him until he sees the place. Of course, you understand, sir.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“All right, I should be home this evening around six or seven. If I’m not here, call me and I’ll hurry back. The sooner we wrap this up, the better.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Most certainly, sir. I’m at your service. And don’t worry. Even if this one doesn’t work out, I will do whatever it takes to turn the house into cash in a matter of days.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe hung up and took a deep breath. If Fariba were there, she would say, Don’t they let up even on holidays?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike that Friday when she had come and stood behind him. Which Friday was it? How long ago? Why could he not gauge time? All he could remember was that he did not close the book he was reading; he sat there, motionless. Then he clasped his hands and rested them on the table. He inhaled the pleasant scent of her Nivea deodorant deep into his lungs. He let her playfully run her index finger through his hair until she reached his earlobe. Then with the back of her hand she stroked his bare shoulders until he had goose bumps, and he waited for her to move closer to his left side so that he could deliberately turn and allow his flushed cheek to brush against her nipple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Stop it, girl, stop it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActing childish was for such times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I like it. Leave me alone, it’s all mine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFariba’s breezy laughter and that quiet spring morning moved his hand and laid it over hers. He clasped her hand with the intention of lifting it off his shoulder, but the pressure of her body and the scent of Nivea from her underarms mingled with the smell of the onion he had eaten at dinner. He stopped resisting and let her play with the sparse hair on his chest, stroke the skin under his earlobe with her lips and the tip of her nose, and purr, “Do you like it?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut that time, she neither ran her finger playfully through his hair, nor did she twiddle with the hair on his chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe said, “Kamran.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhenever she called him Kamran instead of Kami, he knew there was trouble ahead. He closed the book, leaned his elbows on the table, and started drumming his fingers on his head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Go ahead, I’m listening.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I don’t like things the way they are.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething was stuck in his mind. Why could he not turn to her and smile, or even hold her, just like the old days when he would sit her down on his lap and joke around with her and they would pour their hearts out to each other? Just like those Fridays that he could no longer remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Stop it, Kami. Let’s go to bed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m not sleepy right now. I’ll be there in half an hour.” “You’re not coming? You don’t like me?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Don’t you love me anymore?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow could he explain something to someone when he could not quite understand it himself? 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The surreal verse of Soto’s poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love \u0026amp; loss, culture \u0026amp; spirituality, \u0026amp; the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s classic cult film,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e El Topo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Grave is Given Supper \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebuilds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions \u0026amp; complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Soto\u003c\/strong\u003e is a first generation Mexican American, raised in East Dallas and in a small town in Michoacán. He is the author of the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Shadow’s Ink \u003c\/em\u003eand most recently \u003cem\u003eDallas Spleen\u003c\/em\u003e (Deep Vellum). He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College \u0026amp; was awarded the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship by Vermont Studio Center in 2019. \u003cem\u003eA Grave Is Given Supper\u003c\/em\u003e is his debut collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdapted into an original literary-theatric performance by Teatro Dallas directed by Claudia Acosta and starring Elena Hurst\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED for Reading the West Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“The landscape in \u003ci\u003eA Grave is Given a Supper\u003c\/i\u003e recalls the tones of Frank Stanford, steeped with our phantasmagoric Texan borderlands. Soto offers up each poem like a votive candle, wreath of roses, or weapon, to lay on the altar of the outlaw Jesus Malverde, announcing the arrival of a new literary voice.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eFernando\u003c\/span\u003e A. \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eFlores\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePig Latin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStuck on a Razor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Soto describes insects, femicide and the border wall in mystical terms.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Jaime Dunaway, \u003cem\u003eAdvocate Mag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“A surreal exploration of the Mexican drug war written in free verse… While many poems traverse…dreamlike terrain, they’re also sometimes grounded in reality. This is where the book is most gripping and provocative.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tim Diovanni, \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLos Tigres del Norte warn, in a classic narcocorrido that I can imagine sputtering over the static of a sun-bleached radio in the border town where this collection is set, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSin talento no busques grandeza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Grave Is Given Supper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a debut as hauntingly moving as a dog's three-legged waltz, Soto displays a talent that achieves that greatness, lyrically guiding us through the desperation, dehumanization, and senseless tragedies born of our war on drugs.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—David Shook, author of \u003cem\u003eObsidian Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Across the book, poems spastically display the weight of both people and landscape in heartbreak and obituary...Holding the book together is the poet’s consistency of tone; Soto’s poems never falter at being both maturely concise and emotionally staggering.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Greg Bem, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003e“Combines neoclassicism’s equal temperament, the incisive excesses of the metaphysical poets, and Jamie Sabines-like political sensibilities.”\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Joe Milazzo, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eENTROPY \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"It’s been wonderful workshopping with Mike and adapting his words for the stage. A lot of our team are first-or second-generation people who have experienced some of the things touched on in the show: migration, drug wars, a journey from Mexico to the U.S.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Sara Cardona, Executive Artistic Director of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeatro Dallas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eDallas Spleen \u003c\/em\u003eand previous work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e“Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem… a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Soto’s poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. It’s wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Soto’s Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. It’s a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have one’s taproots. 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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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You will love this book!” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—CA Conrad, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile Standing in Line for Death\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Under Taisia Kitaiskaia's Nightgown is the body of a fairytale with a belly like a kettle brewing something ancient and futuristic, tender and feral. Each poem is an amulet, charmed and broken and glistening. Each poem glows like the fullest moon. Reading Kitaiskaia is like reading spells off rare parchment. She might be the poet who is missing from every fairytale you've ever read.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Sabrina Orah Mark, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWild Milk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “For fans of Taisia Kitaiskaia’s previous books, I’m here to tell you her poetry debut is every bit as wild, witchy, and visionary as you could have hoped. In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Nightgown\u003c\/em\u003e, Taisia's ongoing exploration of the folklore of the self voyages into exciting new territory. Prepare to step inside a menagerie of evil potatoes and misbehaving angels, imaginary gardens and real toads. It’s an experience as beguiling as a wedding ceremony you never fully learn the rules to. This book left me completely drunk and I don’t regret it and neither will you.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Dobby Gibson, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLittle Glass Planet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “What do you expect to see when you look deeply into the foreign wounds on your body? Taisia shows you how to descend into the tender bog, how to relish the unknown creatures brushing past you, and... Please, don't be alarmed when her poem guides your hand to draw a card that speaks too loud. 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The poems read like stories, but they are not going forward to an end — they are going backward, into the history of their own words. In one poem, the writer asks if she can be a man of God and the poem ends \"the little wormings, i do love\" — ahh, yes! — not the book she is writing, or the words, but the insects that eat them, which of course, in these poems of anglo saxon meatiness are called wormings. I loved the words in these poems. Where oh where, Taisia Kitaiskaia, did you get those nouns!? What big texture you have! It would be perfect if this book's cover were made of human hair, and we could stroke it as we read.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Darcie Dennigan, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePalace of Subatomic Bliss\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMadame X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Fairytales are grim creatures, part teeth, part terror, but nevertheless, too seductive to resist. 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Harwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ross Farrar keeps letting us know in his poems: amazing things can happen if we both step up, and he steps up. He shares the freedom of his willingness to surrender to the unexpected. He takes us where we use keener attention to find our bearings. His combination of urgent uncertainty and spoken immediacy, of idiom and invention, bursts with feeling and discovery. Ross Farrar keeps finding what his art requires. To quote Ross’s own heartfelt citation of the Gospel according to Wu Tang Clan,  Word is bond. In these poems, Word is bond.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBrooks Haxton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoss John Farrar\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in San Francisco and spent much of his young adult life playing music in the band Ceremony. In his late twenties, he decided to go back to school, finishing his undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, followed by an MFA in Poetry at Syracuse University. His work can be found\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRHINO Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeartworm Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chaffey Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiprap Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He has published one book, comprised of literary mixed media, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociety Verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Bridge9 Press, 2010), and one chapbook, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe L-Shaped Man Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Matador, 2015). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoss Sings Cheree \u0026amp; the Animated Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his debut poetry collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":36298137698467,"sku":"9781646050536","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":36298137731235,"sku":"9781646050543","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Cheree.FrontCover.RGB.jpg?v=1604958796"},{"product_id":"bright-specimen","title":"Bright Specimen","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Julie Poole\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/b\u003e June 1\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA poetic botanical index, Julie Poole’s debut collection explores the history and science of human interaction with the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/otherppl.com\/julie-poole-interview\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen to an interview with Julie Poole on Brad Listi's \u003cem\u003eOtherppl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050574\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050581\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eWith the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points. Through poems spread delicately across the page, interspersed with images of the pressed flowers themselves, Poole’s poetry gives voice to a meditative expression of flora. Each poem creates an individual cataloged world through which to explore the body, sexuality, strength, and a devout refusal to admit the separation between humans and nature. Inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the largest herbaria in the Southwestern United States, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBright Specimen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e weaves together a written index through the harmony of botanical wonder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corsicanaresidency.org\/ropewalker-audio-1\/g9s1j8mpgy4ymh4dr024f4mk2dc90u\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListen to Julie Poole discuss \u003cem\u003eBright Specimen \u003c\/em\u003eon 100 W Corsicana podcast Rope Walker!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJulie Poole \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Her first book of poems, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBright Specimen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She has received scholarships and fellowship support from the James A. Michener Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Yaddo. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. Her poems and essays have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorderlands: Texas Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutBank\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her growing collection of found butterflies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Poole makes majesty out of the diminutive.\"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —Megan Fernandes, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The poems that comprise \u003cem\u003eBright Specimen\u003c\/em\u003e are delicate and tender but also robust, much like their subject matter. Each poem is titled with the Latin scientific name for a flower, but the diction of the poems overall relies mostly on straightforward Germanic diction; formally, this dual presence of Latinate and Germanic words, the twin roots of the English language, creates an atmosphere in Bright Specimen of knowing, of roundness, of a deep but humble understanding of the world. In this collection, Poole addresses themes of femininity, sexuality, and the inextricable connection between the human body and the natural world…\u003cem\u003eBright Specimen\u003c\/em\u003e offers clear, elegant poems that engage with the connections between humans and nature.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Annie Diamond, Bookseller, Seminary Co-Op Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“I loved being held by \u003ci\u003eBright Specimen'\u003c\/i\u003es gentle intimacy and delight, its organic shapes and speech. Reading this book feels like entering a sunlit room of clear-voiced women, where ‘suddenly it seems possible \/ no harm will come to anyone.’What could be so fragile and unafraid as an herbarium flower? Only a poet as attuned as Julie Poole could filter the world through such bright souls.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Taisia Kitaiskaia, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nightgown and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The poems that comprise \u003cem\u003eBright Specimen\u003c\/em\u003e are delicate and tender but also robust, much like their subject matter. Each poem is titled with the Latin scientific name for a flower, but the diction of the poems overall relies mostly on straightforward Germanic diction; formally, this dual presence of Latinate and Germanic words, the twin roots of the English language, creates an atmosphere in Bright Specimen of knowing, of roundness, of a deep but humble understanding of the world. In this collection, Poole addresses themes of femininity, sexuality, and the inextricable connection between the human body and the natural world. “My beauty is nothing in light\/but in the dark I’m warm\/and lovable,” Poole writes in Narcissus pseudonarcissus; “alone not\/so bad when the world\/lives with and\/inside you,” she writes in Rosa setigera. These poems offer a disorienting, almost violent level of self-awareness, bodily self-awareness; the speaker of these poems knows too well the strangeness of inhabiting a human body. Bright Specimen offers clear, elegant poems that engage with the connections between humans and nature.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Annie Diamond, bookseller at Seminary Co-Op (Chicago)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":36298574561443,"sku":"9781646050574","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":36298574594211,"sku":"9781646050581","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/9781646050574_FC.jpg?v=1617655705"},{"product_id":"welcome-to-midland","title":"Welcome to Midland","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLogen Cure\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA debut collection of poetry reckoning with silence, secrets, gossip, and survival while growing up queer in conservative West Texas.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAugust 10, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050697\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050703 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelcome to Midland\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong sense of place. \u003c\/span\u003eGiving voice to secrets and silence,\u003ci\u003e Welcome to Midland\u003c\/i\u003e considers identity, community, family, and legend.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"With gentle, simple language, Logen Cure invokes images so rich that you can almost taste them. Her love of words and her ability to tell a story reveal her to be a poet with a novelist's sense of narrative and characterization. For instance, in 'Camera Shy,' she deftly paints a picture of high school angst and joy so evocative that it transports us in time—summing up our shared experience of adolescence in a few heartbreakingly beautiful images. Logen Cure's poetry shakes readers in a way that can't be logically explained, but that you can feel in your bones, and in your memories.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eWess Mongo Jolley, Author, Editor, and Founder of the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery once in a great while, a poetry reading can freeze an audience in their seats. This happened to me on a sweltering Fort Worth evening… One thing was certain: when poet Logen Cure had finished with the audience, you could’ve heard a pin drop… Afterward, the friend who’d accompanied me leaned over and said, ‘You know how I said I didn’t like poetry? I think I was wrong.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Camille Griep, author of \u003ci\u003eNew Charity Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLogen Cure\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer poet and professor. She is the author of three chapbooks: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill, Letters to Petrarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Keeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. She curates Inner Moonlight, a monthly reading series for The Wild Detectives in Dallas. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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Bret Maney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn his debut collection of poetry in English, the widely acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTram 83 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ereturns to the Deep Vellum catalog with a moving lyric meditation on the Democratic Republic of Congo and its namesake river.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eAugust 31\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050673\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eeBook: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781646050680 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe River in the Belly,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila seeks no less than to reinitiate the Congo River in the imaginary of European languages. Through his invention of the “solitude”—a short poetic form lending itself to searing observation and troubled humor, prone to unexpected tonal shifts and lyrical u-turns—the collection celebrates, caresses, and chastises Central Africa’s great river, the world’s second largest by discharge volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Soviet history, Congolese popular music, international jazz, and everyday life in European exile, Mwanza Mujila has fashioned a work that can speak to the extraordinary hopes and tragedies of post-independence Democratic Republic of the Congo while also mining the generative yet embattled subject position of the African diasporic writer in Europe longing for home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTram 83\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e will rediscover in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRiver \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe incandescent, improvisatory verbal energy that so dazzled them in Mwanza Mujila’s English-language debut.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiston Mwanza Mujila\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1981 and lives today in Austria. His debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTram 83\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, published in English in 2015 by Deep Vellum, won the German International Literature Award and was longlisted for the International Man Booker and the Prix du Monde. 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His writing responds to political turbulence in his native country and frequently foregrounds its debt to jazz. His second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Villain’s Dance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewas published in France in 2020 and is forthcoming in English translation from Deep Vellum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Bret Maney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a literary critic and translator from the French and Spanish. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Gulf Coast Translation Prize for his translations of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s poetry and an International Latino Book Award and PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eManhattan Tropics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (Arte Público, 2019), which he also co-edited. He is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is, at its source, an expat author's declaration of identity, and just as the river has formed Mr. Mujila, he has laid a claim to its legacy.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—S\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eam Sacks,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Composed of 101 numbered 'solitudes,' Mwanza Mujila's collection is equal parts hallucination, augury, and crônica, with fragments that appear out of order and are often enigmatically brief, grotesque, and surreally humorous.\"\u003cspan\u003e —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJay G Ying,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarriet Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTram 83\u003c\/em\u003e, the first of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s works to appear in the United States, made for a thrilling read. Now he’s returned with a new collection inspired by the Congo River, giving readers an even greater sense of the range of his work.\"\u003cspan\u003e —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In this raucous, electrifying what-is-it?—memoir, broken novel, poem series? or is it mainly a protest against the way that dreams  can vanish like migrating birds?— Fiston Mwanza Mujila opens every stopcock that holds back his lust for life. His words rush forward in punctuated swells— like the Congo River he so often mentions. International in his imagination, wary of spells cast by sorcerer-crocodiles and waitresses, Mwanza Mujila masters a visceral, multilingual, song-spiked account of human experience that no one will forget.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eForrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe With\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“After all the riches that have been torn from his country by foreigners, asks this remarkable poet, ‘will they also find a way to haul away the Congo River and use it as room freshener?’ Mwanza Mujila’s raw and passionate work is an authentic voice from a long-suffering land whose story we are too often accustomed to hearing only from outsiders.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adam Hochschild, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Those already familiar with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTram 83 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewill recognize some of its precursor features in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe River in the Belly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, first published in 2013. The collection is full of cryptic images of sorrow and lamentation drawn from the African landscape but also fully augmented with others from a consciousness shaped by exile. The beauty of Mwanza Mujila’s poetry comes from the telescoping of pain and despair into a language of unexpected juxtapositions. The resemblance with Dambudzo Marechera is not accidental, for they both attempt to hurl language into the abyss and to decipher the vague and mangled echoes that return to them in that act. A new and provocative contribution to African Literature.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ato Quayson, Stanford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The poems show the Congo River running through Mwanza Mujila’s veins as he contemplates mortality, (in)voluntary exile, the resource curse and the physical grandeur of the river itself…. These translations are a must-read.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohannesburg Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Efemia Chela\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Translation is the ultimate tribute, a tributary to the river of beauty and this is so present in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe River in the Belly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. This is an urgent book that will outlive us all, but we can excavate it now. There is anguish. But for each wound Mwanza Mujila opens and tenderly kneads, he also sutures with a deep love. We must listen!”  \u003c\/span\u003e—Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of \u003ci\u003eLogotherapy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Star Nairobi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"This book … is a masterpiece of poetic imagination and excellence. It is a melancholic meditation on the Congo River and the huge country named after it, while also expressing from the poet’s new home in Austria his homesickness, solitude, and nostalgia for the good things he remembers from his country of origin... Using the mighty river as a metaphor for his own connection to the DRC, known during his first sixteen years as Zaire, Mwanza Mujila depicts a bleak picture of the regimes of Laurent and Joseph Kabila.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“More subtle, mischievous poetics from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, this time mediated by the big river, unexpected materialities and anguish, mediated by solitude with some prose segments and a very fine translation. A book urgently wondering about deprivation, desire, violence, animal–human relations, exile, music, madness, and the diverse pulses of Congolese urbanities. Exquisite and profound, and eminently teachable too.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nancy Rose Hunt, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eauthor of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Fiston Mwanza Mujila… thinks back not only to his native river, but also to the almost constant multi-agent civil war that has eviscerated the Congo over the past decades: it is both the bloodiest conflict of our time and one of the least noticed. Maney very capably conveys the intonations and registers of the original in this faithful and beautiful rendering.”  —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene Ostashevsky, judge for The 2019 Asymptote Close Approximations International Translation Contest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A travelogue featuring dyspeptic saints, sophic beasts and, above all, an all-consuming river. Wonderfully subversive.” \u003c\/span\u003e—Jason Stearns, author of \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eTram 83\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction 2015 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of a French Voices Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An exuberantly dark first novel . . . Evoking everyone from Brueghel to Henry Miller to Celine, Fiston plunges us into a world so anarchic it would leave even Ted Cruz begging for more government.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, \u003c\/em\u003eJohn Powers \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—“A high-velocity debut... The writing has the pulsing, staccato rhythms of Beat poetry and Roland Glasser has exuberantly harnessed that energy in his translation from the French.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e —\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Sam Sacks  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“At once a grim account of neocolonialism and a comic tale of late-night urban mayhem, this vigorous, hip and brilliant work takes a while to warm up but ends up gripping like a vice.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003eJames Smart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this visceral, fast-paced debut novel, acclaimed Congolese poet Mujila examines life in a central African state plagued by instability... Rapid and poetic, Mujila depicts a province where “every day is a pitched battle\"... The central characters fight to change the paths laid before them, desperate to rebel against a fate imposed by life in a consumptive environment. Mujila succeeds in exploring themes of globalization and exploitation in a kinetic, engaging work.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise for Fiston Mwanza Mujila\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With dark, picaresque humor and faith in the power of chant, this notebook of counter-songs confronts the death drive of capitalism and chances to chart a 'cartography of violence' with a matter-of-factness that is the other side of love. The translator J. Bret Maney renders all this in a language as vital and musical as it is precise...and with a performative élan that feels like something special: solidarity, perhaps.” — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUrayoán Noel, judge for The 2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":36299355586723,"sku":"9781646050673","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":36299355619491,"sku":"9781646050680","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/River.Belly.Front_Cover.RGB.jpg?v=1625773048"},{"product_id":"winter-phoenix","title":"Winter Phoenix","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Sophia Terazawa\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2022 Finalist for the Firecracker Awards in Poetry category.\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\"\u003eA profound debut collection blending testimony and tribunal, \u003cem\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e creates a courtroom for colonial and linguistic reckoning after the U.S. war machine in Vietnam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\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\u003e November 9, 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 9781646051427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051434\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\"\u003eA book of testimonies in verse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The poet, a daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, navigates the epigenetics of trauma passed down, and across, the archives of war, dislocation, and witness, as she repeatedly asks, “Why did you just stand there and say nothing?” Here, the space of accusation becomes both lyric and machine, an “investigation” which takes place in the margins of martial law, the source material being soldiers’ testimonies given during three internationally publicized events, in this order—The Incident on Hill 192 (1966, Phù Mỹ District, Vietnam); The Winter Soldier Investigation (1971, Detroit, USA); and The Russell Tribunal (1966, Stockholm, Sweden; 1967, Roskilde, Denmark). Ultimately, however,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a document of resilience. Language decays. A ceremony eclipses its trial, and the radical possibilities of a single scream rises from annihilation.\u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSophia Terazawa is a poet and performer of Vietnamese-Japanese descent working with ghosts. A recent graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program, she is the author of two chapbooks, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI AM NOT A WAR\u003c\/em\u003e (Essay Press), a winner of the 2015 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCorrespondent Medley\u003c\/em\u003e (Factory Hollow Press), winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Additional honors include the Bill Waller Award for Creative Nonfiction, LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Award, and Monique Wittig Writer's Scholarship. Terazawa's work appears widely in journals and magazines, such as \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Offing, New Delta Review, The Iowa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e. Her favorite color is purple.\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\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Wildly inventive in its experiments with abecedarian form and Morse code, the collection explores the complicated legacy of English, asking us what it means for court proceedings to unfold in the language of the abuser…Terazawa’s striking imagery draws attention to the fact that atrocity often unfolds amid beauty and asks us to consider what it means to find stunning images in times of trauma.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Layla Benitez-James, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her debut, Terazawa, daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, considers the colonial and linguistic legacy of the Vietnam war in a work comprising imagined testimonies in verse.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e–\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, Maya Popa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What language can we use to describe atrocities mounting on top of atrocities? How do we organize the telling? What happens after? In Sophia Terazawa’s stunning and necessary debut collection of poetry, we begin with the letter A, we begin in Vietnam. Terazawa splinters, she reconstitutes, we witness the burn, the rise. There’s a limit to what can happen in a colonial language. In \u003cem\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e, Terazawa takes us beyond it.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e––Susan Briante, \u003cem\u003eDefacing the Monument\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I envy you, who are about to experience Sophia Terazawa’s \u003cem\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e, for the jagged, life-harrowing testimony \/ the searing counter-autopsy performed on the overspreading shadows of human extremity \/ and the enforced contortions and yet finally free revelations of language \/ that are about to incite and irrevocably transform your mind and especially your heart. Terazawa’s poetry—trial, exhibition, demonstration, transfiguration, ballad of descendant unquiet—is the hardest won form of love.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e––Brandon Shimoda, \u003cem\u003eEvening Oracle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...Sophia Terazawa leans closer to the page, to its ink, deeper into the chest and throat, closer to the edges of her fingertips, so she can lift quiet into the imagination and thereby inaugurate a courtroom for reckoning, a chamber for transformation, a hill for a tattered flag, and a hill again, to run down, arms open, holding out an amulet of love.\"\u003cstrong\u003e––Farid Matuk, \u003cem\u003eThis Is A Nice Neighborhood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sophia Terazawa’s profound debut collection \u003cem\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to seek out radical healing rituals as a means to persevere amidst the horrors of empire during the Vietnam War. Beneath its testimonies, exhibits, cross-examinations, and diagrams of war crime tribunals is the incantation of voices that can no longer remain unheard. The poet honors these voices that span “between documents and justice,” along with the ancestral and astral, toward greater possibilities of repair...the reader is compelled to not look away but then to ask: where does complicity end and healing begin? This collection guides us to listen deeper and encourages us to consider who speaks and is allowed to speak, who jurors the justice and receives the justice, who can and cannot answer the questions to make us whole.\"\u003cstrong\u003e––Anthony Cody, \u003cem\u003eBorderland Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eWinter Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e, Sophia Terazawa conducts a symphony of voices, documents, and archives in the form of lyric testimonies...Incisive and microscopic, Terazawa examines the intimacies of the unnamed speaker's matrilineal line while cross-examining those who were complicit in war crimes during the Resistance War Against America, or American War, or the \"Vietnam War\"...Terazawa is exacting in her visions of the personal and trans-national past. \u003cstrong\u003e––Diana Khoi Nguyen, \u003cem\u003eGhost Of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40185875497123,"sku":"9781646051427","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":40185875529891,"sku":"9781646051434","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/WP_CoverRGB.jpg?v=1620162287"},{"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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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. The English edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Deep Vellum in 2015. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKazim Ali has translated books by Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, and Mahmoud Chokrollahi. His own work as a poet and writer includes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebooks of poetry, fiction, essays and mixed genre work. He\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If I had only one word to define this book, it would be aliveness—a synonym, plausibly, in Ananda Devi’s idiolect, for freedom. Everything—from the Night in the title, to skin, to mud, to a green sari, to sound, to Time itself—is alive ... 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. This book of harsh lyric and enigmatic, theoretical and erotic prose, takes on a second life in Kazim Ali’s sensitive translation.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Marilyn Hacker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The work of Mauritian poet Ananda Devi is rightly celebrated in the Francophone world and in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the Night Agrees to Speak to Me\u003c\/em\u003e, the Anglophone world gets a glimpse of the depth and complexity of this writer’s thinking and lived experience. In Kazim Ali’s translation, the allusive density of Ananda Devi’s poetry is clarified and given air. We see the way Devi transfers agency to the real and the abstract: the ‘mud about which\/ The future has nothing to say’ and also the ‘woman erased by her bruises’. Devi’s poetry has suffering, resignation but also a deep, visceral joy that shines through. Ali, as a poet himself, is very conscious of what it takes to live upon an earth riven by borders and crossings of all kinds, and he brings all of that experience to this translation.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Sridala Swami\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42222186594553,"sku":"9781646051885","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42222186627321,"sku":"9781646051892","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/WhentheNightAgreestoSpeaktoMe_FINAL.jpg?v=1640207943"},{"product_id":"iguana-iguana","title":"Iguana Iguana","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Caylin Capra-Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eA debut book of poetry from rising star Capra-Thomas, \u003cem\u003eIguana Iguana\u003c\/em\u003e stomps around the country learning about friendships, uncertainty, and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eAugust, 2nd 2022\u003c\/p\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 title=\"Page 8\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 16\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646051779\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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646051762\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\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 16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 20\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv 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 class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlive to the beauty and anxiety of new worlds and people, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIguana Iguana \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eimagines a tough and tender soundtrack for tumbleweeds in search of roots. 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In doing so, she maps a blueprint for \"lay[ing] into the world \/ like it's good enough.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaylin Capra-Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e's other works include the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eInside My Electric City\u003c\/em\u003e (YesYes Books) and \u003cem\u003eThe Marilyn Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared in journals including \u003cem\u003eNew England Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Hayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. 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These wild and wise poems travel so many places, like dreams built from an ordinary life, an ordinary inner madness, and they contain so much humor and humanity, so much muchness and toughness and tenderness and forgiveness.  Of everything and everyone.  Jim and Sylvester and William, no-see-ums and mothers, good and bad boyfriends, girlfriends, stray cats and dead birds, dancing pecs and death. Damn, I’m impressed.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorianne Laux, author of \u003cem\u003eOnly As the Day Is Long\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This is the kind of book, rare indeed, that makes me fall in love with the 'I' all over again. The lyric 'I,' witness of the land and what dwells upon it: 'The river \/ is high again and so are the teenagers.' Oracle, as well, of interior spaces, and the correspondences that arise between inner and outer: 'the oranges with hard little navels, the navels identical \/ to mine.' The 'I' that examines feeling and memory and, in that examination, ignites imagination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIguana Iguana \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis composed of many slippery selves—the Florida self, Montana self, daughter, lover, kid, adult, the solitude junkie, the working class self, and the kitchen self, 'Alive before that moment, alive through the dishes…' All the selves are united in their lack of cloying hopefulness and easy outs, and their awareness of the mortal body, which is also the source of the book’s comedy: 'If death is the body’s failure, it is also its final \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efuck you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.' 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Yarberry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 34\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the cosmopolitan, and intimacy.\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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: August, 2nd 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646051786\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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646051793\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 16\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 20\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 24\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 31\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 34\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boy in the City \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003euses poems as pillars to interrupt and excavate an interiority that unfolds and interrogates grim thoughts and intimacy. Yarberry weaves a sexy, glitzy journey through their city, where the speaker can “pose” and “compose” in a “trans way, of course.” Clever in its playful allusions to Greek myths, William Blake, and other literary figures, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boy in the City\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a distinct work of joy and liberation that reckons with the language of gender and desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\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\u003cdiv title=\"Page 35\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS. Yarberry\u003c\/strong\u003e is a trans poet and writer. Their poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eTin House, Indiana Review, The Offing, Berkeley Poetry Review, jubilat, Notre Dame Review, The Boiler,\u003c\/em\u003e miscellaneous zines, among others. Their other writings can be found in \u003cem\u003eBomb Magazine, The Adroit Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlake\/An Illustrated Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e. They currently serve as the Poetry Editor of\u003cem\u003e The Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A Boy in the City is a scream of misery, or maybe a moan, or maybe a sob, at times almost matter of fact, at others intensely visceral.” \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Patrick T. Reardon, \u003cem\u003eThird Coast Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'I want a stupendous smugness, and the self,' this debut poetry collection by S. Yarberry declares, 'to dispense its terrible truth.' Terrible, as in terrific and terrifying, is one body meeting another, knowledge bending toward doubt, and that which we fear being exactly what we want . . . Yarberry changes the world—streetlights are city-tulips, the soul is a slippery fish—to create a new world, to ask, 'How do you see me anyways?' In these poems, where gender, desire, love, and the struggle to say what can’t be said converge, this inquiry offers us a seductive new mind at work. 'I can become anything,' this collection proclaims. 'I did.' And Yarberry’s gift to us is that we can become anything, too.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paul Tran, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Flowers Kneeling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'Trans is Latin for across,' states the title of the final poem in S. Yarberry’s \u003ci\u003eA Boy in the City\u003c\/i\u003e, a book in which Yarberry builds poems from a heady mix of eros, violence, tenderness, and the Blakean ecstatic, poems that seek to bring connection between parts, to give wholeness to the fragmentation that, for Yarberry, can come to define trans life: 'It’s as if\/only\/when in pieces\/I find\/myself again.' \u003ci\u003eA Boy in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe City\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a way across and through, past the 'festoonery' of gender and easy binaries, toward a hard-won understanding that 'it is nothing special'—should in fact be a given—'to not want to be hurt.' Yarberry’s is a defiant new voice.\" \u003cb\u003e—Carl Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003ePale Colors in a Tall Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Boy in the City\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable collection of poems—incisive, erotic, artfully antiromantic. The poems act as a transcript of a brilliant mind reasoning with itself. Remembered scenes get reenacted against changing backdrops inside a stage-lit braincase—street, bedroom, seashore (“I watched the ocean rise up on its miraculous haunches”). Over time, it becomes clear: the issue is not self-discovery, or so-called \"becoming.” We are born knowing who we are—“The world flexed, and I was flown— \/ my body aching, \/ for the anatomy of boyhood.” After the flight, all that is left is the work of achieving the wishes we were given.\" \u003cb\u003e—Mary Jo Bang, author of \u003ci\u003eA Doll for Throwing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\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\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","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42394674659577,"sku":"9781646051786","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42394674692345,"sku":"9781646051793","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/ScreenShot2022-02-08at12.21.42PM.png?v=1644344512"},{"product_id":"isles-of-firm-ground","title":"Isles of Firm Ground","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Mike Soto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 34\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 38\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 43\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 47\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn wondrous, singing translation by Mike Soto, these spare, striking poems by Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez explore the infinite solitude of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eAugust, 2nd 2022\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\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\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 16\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781646051298\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781646051304\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 16\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 20\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 24\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 28\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 31\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 34\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 38\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 43\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 47\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe poems of\u003cstrong\u003e Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez\u003c\/strong\u003e reflect a world precariously dependent on the word, but also transfixed by the word. 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