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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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 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.
Stealing Fire for His Own Furnaces: Clayton Eshleman on Translation
This year alone, poet Clayton Eshleman has published co-translations of of work by Aimé Césaire, Bei Dao, and Bernard Bador. In his conversation with David Shook, he excavates his personal history to explain what draws him to Césaire and Vallejo, explains his Bei Dao project, and details his personal translation process.
World Poetry Portfolio #46: Carole Satyamurti
Poet Carole Satyamurti presents an excerpt from her new translation of the Mahabharata, one of India’s two great epic poems, from her 700-page translation of the poem, using blank verse to approximate the shloka form of Ancient Sanskrit.
World Poetry Portfolio #44: Itztok Osojnik
Slovenian poet and literary scientist Itztok Osojnik is “trapped in a worm’s body.”
Noelle Kocot on Tristan Corbière
Poet Noelle Kocot discusses her translations of French maudite Tristan Corbière, published as Poet by Default by Wave Books.
World Poetry Portfolio #42: Anthony S. Abbott
Sudeep Sen presents poems by San Francisco-native Davidson professor Anthony S. Abbott, whose books include the novel Leaving Maggie Hope and poetry collection The Man Who. “if words could save us (and they can, my darling)”
World Poetry Portfolio #40: Zoran Anchevski
Sudeep Sen presents poems by Macedonian poet Zoran Anchevski about translating the dead, “the peeled orange” of the moon, and stammering “before / the g-g-gates of Babylon.”
Bo Press’ Mini Books
Pat Sweet, founder and publisher of Bo Press, discusses her love for miniature books, her eclectic “dog’s breakfast” list of titles, and the miniature as object.
World Poetry Portfolio #38: Charles Bernstein
Sudeep Sen presents a sequence of poems by Charles Bernstein, whose most recent books are The Attack of the Difficult Poems and All the Whiskey in Heaven. This sequence, Morality, includes poems from 1973 to 2011.
Between Now and Then
Poet and translator Piotr Florczyk reviews Adam Zagajewski’s latest book in English, Unseen Hand, which he says lights our way “like the torches of welders.”
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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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