Translator Clare Sullivan recounts her experiences with indigenous women poets in Oaxaca, Mexico. “The women I met are custodians of culture and of memory. In their poetry, as in their stories, they combine nurturing and insight with fierceness and fire.”
Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
Australian poet John Mateer contemplates recent literary events in Bali and Perth, Australia, celebrating a wide range of world writers and detailing his own offerings to the Gods of Attention.
World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
THE SWEEPER Luca first turned up during the siege. He was ragged and unkempt, like any morlach from the mountains. He came striding into our midst, his black hair brushed forward over his brow, deep lines on either side of his mouth, his eyes staring, like he was a little mad. He said the soldiers [...]
Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
Mathew Timmons introduces his serial appreciation of Burning Deck Press, which will celebrate their 50th anniversary over a span of several months and feature over 60 of their titles since 1961.
World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
FERNANDO To find herself in a space like this, who would have thought it? Walls newly plastered and the wind sweeping through, when a rare wind there was, and otherwise the stillness, the sullen heat of the afternoon, and the tap-tapping of the builders, two floors below, putting in the kitchen – ripping out what [...]
World Prose Portfolio #5: Linda Neil
DAL BHAAT From Singing Love Songs in Kathmandu (Linda Neil’s current project, which will be published as an e-book with accompanying music soundtrack) The walk back to our hotel was like a dream. After the serendipity of our discovery in the Tibetan Square, Kathmandu seemed carnivalesque. The brightly coloured saris that adorned the Nepalese women [...]
Dismantling Wisdom: A Brief Conversation with Ed Bok Lee
Poet Ed Bok Lee discusses Whorled, his second collection, the past as sacred text, and poetry as the dismantler of wisdom.
World Prose Portfolio #4: Cristina Rascón Castro
Mexican writer Cristina Rascón Castro converses with The Word, rants at the fragmented reflection of her own face, and recounts a young woman’s murder of an attacker. Sudeep Sen presents three stories co-translated by the author with Amal Chaterjee.
World Poetry Portfolio #52: Jenny Lewis
Poet, playwright, and teacher Jenny Lewis taught Vashti Bunyan to play the guitar. Her recent work has explored the legend of Gilgamesh and her father’s military work in Mesopotamia. She is a Contributing Editor to Molossus.
World Poetry Portfolio #51: Cai Tianxin
With a PhD in Number Theory, Chinese poet Cai Tianxin employs his “Heart of a Poet—诗人的心” to write about Switzerland and India. Sudeep Sen presents thirteen poems he translated with the poet.
World Poetry Portfolio #50: Patricia McCarthy
Agenda editor Patricia McCarthy’s poetry sequence Rodin’s Shadow is forthcoming in 2012, before a Selected and New in 2013. Sudeep Sen presents excerpts from both.
World Poetry Portfolio #49: Philippe Rahmy
Sudeep Sen presents three prose poems by French Poet Philippe Rahmy, including a photograph from his series False Doors.
World Poetry Portfolio #48: Colm Breathnach
Sudeep Sen presents Colm Breathnach’s poetry, translated from the Irish by their author, including “Good Night, Ya Bastard.”
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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