David Shook recommends new translations of poetry from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay, including work by skywriter Raúl Rivero, Swine Flu jokester José Eugenio Sánchez, and Roberto Juarroz, who Octavio Paz called “a poet of absolute instants.”
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Reviews from Elsewhere, August
A review of Finding the Way Home, an anthology of poetry from White Pine Press, reviewed by theologian Kelley Johnson.
The Spiritual & The Untranslatable: Three Anthologies
Between Water & Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Norman Minnick (White Pine Press) $17 Includes: Ruth Forman, Ilya Kaminsky, Malena Mörling, Kevin Goodan, Jay Leeming, Terrance Hayes, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Sherwin Bitsui, Maria Melendez, Valzhyna Mort, Eugene Gloria, Brian Turner, Joshua Poteat, Maurice Manning, & Chris Abani From the Introduction: A graduate student [...]
Bone to Bone: Vasko Popa
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. —Octavio Paz In April 2010 White Pine will publish Morton Marcus’ translations of Serbian legend Vasko Popa, The Star Wizard’s Legacy: Six Poetic Sequences ($16). The book contains the versions that Marcus and Popa worked out [...]
Four Americans, Briefly
Rants and Raves, Peter Johnson (White Pine Press) $16 The latest edition to White Pine’s important Marie Alexander Series of prose poem collections, Johnson’s collection is more exciting than last year’s title by Robert Bly. Mostly funny in the way Tony Hoagland is funny, Johnson is keen to self-deprecate himself and the poetry community he [...]
Two in Translation: René Char & Hŏ Kyun
Stone Lyre, René Char, tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson (Tupelo Press) $16.95 In his introduction Ilya Kaminsky writes that the great poets deserve a great many translations, and though René Char is a poet with a venerable pantheon of literary translators—among them James Wright, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, and William Carlos Williams—Carlson’s sing most like the [...]
Water Poems & Land Art
Tadić’s Proverbs, Baca’s Empathy, and Bly’s Prose
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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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