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.”
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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 #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.
Kwanini?’s Tiny Coups
The Kwani? Trust is Kenya’s premiere literary institution, anchored by their flagship publication, the omnibus journal Kwani?, roughly translatable from the Swahili as “What’s up?” Their reduplicative Kwanini? series features diminutive, perfect-bound fiction and creative nonfiction at chapbook length.
Allen Ginsberg’s Recycled Erotic Manuscript
Allen Ginsberg’s letter about Buddhism was handwritten on the back of a discarded erotic manuscript, complete with tattoos, dog-like leg-humping, licking, and Ginsberg’s notation “recycled.”
Fork Over the Gold: Yuri Rytkheu’s Chukchi Bible
Boris Dralyuk catalogues false interpretations—backed unfortunately by Winchesters—and contextualizes the Chukchi people within the Soviet sociopolitical mindset in his appreciative review of Yuri Rytkheu’s The Chukchi Bible.
Ben Lerner in Conversation with Cyrus Console
Console asks about “the historical Ben Lerner,” who both is and isn’t similar to his novel’s protagonist Adam Gordon.
Two Letters from Henry Miller
Watercolorist and writer Irving Stettner ran the fun-loving, zine-style magazine Stroker—with its motto, “Every word like a Crackerjack box—with a surprise!”—from 1974 until his passing in 2002, publishing work by Henry Miller, Paul Bowles, Charles Bukowski, and many others. Issue 33 (1986) contained a pair of letters from his close friend Henry Miller.
Masochism is Another Form of Elitism
Brian Hewes reviews Pascal Bruckner’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, finding it enjoyable but ultimately unconvincing for its utopianism.
World Prose Portfolio #2: Thomas E. Kennedy
Sudeep Sen presents “Straining Man,” a new story by the Thomas E. Kennedy, the author of Falling Sideways, In the Company of Angels, and over twenty other books.
World Prose Portfolio #1: Walter Cummins
Molossus presents a short story by Walter Cummins, Sudeep Sen’s first selection for the new World Prose Portfolio series, which accompanies his highly regarded World Poetry Portfolio.
Australia Briefly
Profiles of Sand, the new collaborative book by Robert Drewe and John Kinsella, and Kinsella’s Divine Comedy, a psycho-geographical explortion of Dante’s famous trilogy set on the five-acre plot of farmland where he grew up.
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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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