Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong. This volume selects poems of many decades by one of the most startling, distinctive, and influential feminist voices in contemporary Korean poetry. Against the limits society would erect around her, Choi Seungja's poetry trains a keen attention on everyday objects and situations until loneliness, time, emptiness, love, death and even brief-lived delight glow with uncanny luster. Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong's translations accentuate the simplicity and boldness of Choi's vision, her perfect aim.

Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me

Literature & Fiction

Seungja, Choi

Poetry

Action Books

About the Author\nBruno K. Öijer has been one of the most popular and influential Swedish poets for decades, much like Tomas Tranströmer. As a member of the rebellious poetry group Vesuvius, Öijer published his first book, Song for Anarchism, in 1973. His now-classic TRILOGY includes Medan Giftet Verkar (While the Poison Acts, 1990), Det Förlorade Ordet (The Lost Word, 1995), and Dimman av Allt (The Fog of Everything, 2001). He continues to publish books, as well as offer sold-out readings around Sweden.\nVictoria Häggblom is a writer and translator with an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She has received grants and awards from Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Santa Fe Art Institute, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, PEN America Center, and Swedish Institute and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Poetry Translation Prize for her translation of Bruno K. Öijer's THE TRILOGY, published by Action Books in 2020.\nPoetry. Music. Translated by Victoria Häggblom and Bruno K. Öijer. Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a brash style that drew equally from rock music and the historical avant-garde. In the 1980s, Öijer became a performing artist, touring Sweden with a band and releasing a record. But in the 90s he startled Swedish literature returning to written poetry with the legendary trilogy of books--While the Poison Acts, The Lost Word and The Fog of Everything--that together make up a powerful, mystical vision. The books became instant classics of modern Swedish poetry and have been translated into many languages. This is the first time all three books are published together in English translation.

The Trilogy

Oijer, Bruno K.

Poetry. Art. Photography. Candice Wuehle's DEATH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is a meditation on the cultural obsession with the bodies of dead women and an occult invocation of the artist Francesca Woodman. Like Woodman's photographs with their long exposures and blurred lenses, this book is haunted and haunting, hazey yet devastatingly precise. These are poems as possessions, gothic ekphrases, dialogues with the dead, biography and anti-biography, a stunning act of "cryptobeauty."

Death Industrial Complex

Arts & Photography

Wuehle, Candice

Photography & Video

You + Me Forever

Hsiung, Valerie

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Michelle Gil-Montero. A book-length epitaph for her late brother Charlie, Valerie Mejer Caso's EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK is a captivating, startling expression of grief. Following a trail of breadcrumbs, Mejer Caso's poems shift between memories, cities, philosophies, echoes and landscapes of quicksand, oceans, deserts, apocalypse. Featuring photographs by Barry Shapiro, EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK contains a profound archive of cultural history coursing with elliptical, illuminating poems. "Even without being / you are what exists and what does not exist, / the looming night." "The language that emerges is one pierced by the world and by our actions in the world. Constructed from the limit of experience, these poems have relinquished all rhetorical temptation, any purely verbal exploration, in order to insist on an infinitely more risky investigation: that of capturing the instant just before things turn to shadows."--Raúl Zurita "At its best a book of poetry can capture the solitary intellectual vexations we have with memory and death, which live at the center of all our reckoning. EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK is such a book. Valerie Mejer Caso, deftly translated by Michelle Gil-Montero, is an exquisite archivist of the evidence we rely on to revisit our histories: stained photographs, bats, and fleeting glimpses, the palimpsests that flitter from gorgeous nocturnes: 'I'll wreck the piano, and the dust of its bones will sound mournful, and that possible song will replay like a canon.' I love the haunted library of this book and the cool blue eye that dizzies then rights me with both heart and head."--Carmen Giménez Smith

Edinburgh Notebook

Caso, Valerie Mejer

Dramas & Plays

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. PREPOEMS IN POSTSPANISH AND OTHER POEMS marks the first full-length collection to appear in English by the groundbreaking Ecuadorian poet Jorgenrique Adoum (1926-2009), hailed by Nobel-prize winner Pablo Neruda as the best Latin American poet of his generation. Adoum's poetry is at once radically experimental, fiercely lyrical, and passionately committed to social change. This timely volume showcases Adoum at his most formally innovative, gathering together three books published between 1973 and 1993: Curriculum Mortis, PREPOEMS IN POSTSPANISH, and Love Disinterred. Translators Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's inventive and expert renderings bring Adoum's experimentation to the fore. "The best Latin American poet of his generation."--Pablo Neruda "For the rest of my life, I will be grateful to these translators! Jorgenrique Adoum has an extraordinary landscape for us to meet, explore 'in the subsoul or the dislife' and to know poets, poetry, as new all over again. The strength of poetry has never been more evident!"--CA Conrad "These electric poems burn and mourn, seduce and jeer. They bend language and lore; they strain against state repression. They painstakingly document the 'cottony calm' and the turtle's 'historical sadness,' in a translation that attends expertly to the poems' ecstatic coinages and revolutionary energy. It's an awesome book."--Natalie Shapero

prepoems in postspanish and other poems

Adoum, Jorgenrique

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. "this is a shape I cannot remain in." With its mutant orbs of grief and technoscientific phenomena, Ursula Andkjær Olsen's OUTGOING VESSEL is the electrifying sequel to Katrine Øgaard Jensen's award-winning translation of THIRD MILLENNIUM HEART. The book-length mirror poem titled Udgående fartøj (OUTGOING VESSEL) received the Danish Critics Prize for Literature in 2015. Now, for the first time in English, a radically new and resilient voice emerges--an OUTGOING VESSEL--from an all-consuming darkness: "INSIDE ME THERE IS A NONDEGRADABLE ORB / MY OWN PLANET."

Outgoing Vessel

Olsen, Ursula Andkjaer

Poetry. In his fourth book, AnaÏs Duplan reinvents ekphrasis as an act of devotion to art as both the sense-archive and future tense of Black embodiment. In this vibrant thinkspace (where thinking is singing), Duplan hosts a vivid community of Black musicians, performers, painters, photographers, poets, critics, filmmakers and video artists, even a chorus of lovelorn chatroom denizens. I NEED MUSIC hosts the lyric re-arrivals of unquiet pasts, enacts a haptic intimacy with the present, and vibrates with the immanence of Black, queer futures.

I Need Music

Duplan, Anaïs

About the Author Christian Hawkey is a writer & translator living in Brooklyn, New York, & in Neukölln, Berlin. In both cities he teaches for the Department of Writing at Pratt Institute. He is currently co-translating with Marouane Zakhir a second book by the Moroccan philosopher Abdessalam Benabdelali, Hosting the Stranger. His own poetry has been translated into over a dozen languages. He is the author of VENTRAKL (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and CITIZEN OF (Wave Books, 2007). Product Description In his first book since the critically acclaimed and influential VENTRAKL, Christian Hawkey's SIFT presents readers with fiercely resonant, interlingual inquiries into desire and power. Emerging out of Hawkey's co-translation of the Arabic (with Marouane Zakhir) of Moroccan theorist Abdessalam Benabdelali, SIFT calls attention to sifted speech, to what "catches in the throat," and how language refuses easy transmission. Cinematic in its unfolding and lyrically explorative across multiple Englishes, SIFT is a profound experiment in language by an ever-provocative poet."In this extraordinary collection, Christian Hawkey shows us the infinite porosity of words is the infinite porosity of worlds. Here, the lingual is neither mono nor multi. Rather, the transit of language beckons the unbecoming of settler colonial geographies. The prose is delicate, tender even, yet Hawkey unflinchingly addresses the grievous violence of our times. Coveting this book like a beaming secret, I found myself sneaking off to pet it. Sift convinces us to cherish every yield."--Jasbir K. Puar"Created in the interstices of translation, SIFT is a formally intricate work that demonstrates a brilliant engagement with the etymological trails (and trials) of language and translation and their interpenetration with empire, colonialism, history, politics, and parenting. I did not want to leave this poem that urgently names what needs to be is."--M. NourbeSe Philip"SIFT is a remarkable, radical book-length poem that simultaneously coils and uncoils throughout its etymological journey, destabilizing linguistic coloniality. Circling around and between Arabic and English, the poem's language is translingual, syntactically volatile, sonically playful, incantatory, mirror-like, and trans-marginated. Christian Hawkey's SIFT sings, laments, protests, and exists alongside Inger Christensen's alphabet."--Don Mee ChoiPoetry.

Sift

HAWKEY, Christian

Nominated for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize, MY JEWEL BOX (Mit smykkeskrin) marks the final installment of Ursula Andkjær Olsen's visionary trilogy, a "fairy tale of the universe" investigating grief, bodies, motherhood, and the physical and economic inequalities of modern planetary life. Rendered into diamond-sharp English by award-winning translator Katrine ÿgaard Jensen, MY JEWEL BOX mounts a cosmically human (and non-human) re-approach to a grief-stricken earth, a place of all times entangled. Poetry. Women's Studies.

My Jewel Box

Andkjær Olsen, Ursula

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