DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM

Afrizal Malna

World Poetry

WHAT OF THE EARTH WAS SAVED

Leeladhar Jagoori

Mansour's late poems chart constellations of desire, femininity, and dream. Considered by Andre Breton to be the preeminent Surrealist of the post-war period, Mansour brings this masculine movement into a feminine realm never-before-imagined. She insists on a forgotten or perhaps vehemently denied eventuality of women's equality: their ability to do harm, to be violent: 'Why tear fire from the impalpable sky / When it already grows and smolders in me / Why throw your glove into the crowd / Tomorrow is a livid stump.' In the Glittering Maw is poet C. Francis Fisher's first published translation and includes a preface by eminent Surrealism scholar Mary Ann Caws.

IN THE GLITTERING MAW

Literature & Fiction

Joyce Mansour

Poetry

Swedish poet Judith Kiros's widely-acclaimed debut stretches boundaries of genre, race, and gender in an alternative production of Shakespeare's Othello that sidesteps black death for a multitude of futures. Taking a cue from Derek Walcott's Omeros, Kiros employs metric verve and critical bite to add to Shakespeare a wide range of historical and contemporary works, producing a meditation on blackness that sets up a new reflective surface at every turn. O marks the first translation into English of one of Sweden's most thrilling young poets. || "O is unlike anything you have ever read. A revisioning of a classic text and a revolt against its many implications. Judith Kiros's astonishing talents manifest in language that holds the balance between beautiful and heartbreaking." --MAAZA MENGISTE || "Riffing off Shakespeare's Othello and ranging across all manner of the poetic and critical, Judith Kiros's O, a book about race, gender, Blackness, Sweden, colonialism and decolonization, and so much more, achieves what only the best and most original poetry can, which is to remake our understanding and sense of the genre." --JOHN KEENE || "With a beguiling combination of technical assurance and a reckless -- in the best sense -- inclination to honor each poem's agency, we find in Kiros a poet equal to the chimerical nature of our times. This acerbic, endlessly surprising book is refreshing and moreish as a favored tipple over ice on a warm day." --KAYO CHINGONYI || "O is the conversation with form that I've been waiting for, where attention extends beyond the page and stage to demarcate the elasticity and permeability of empire. The terms at stake are clear. Clearly capitalism. Clearly freedom." --SARETTA MORGAN || "O refracts Shakespeare's Othello into five smartly staged movements that emerge contours of translation, canals, Blackness, 'unfamiliar women,' and light. Kiros whets language with serious play, offering a rumination that is liquid-measured and beautifully possessed." --ICA SADAGAT || Race Studies. Black Studies. Shakespeare Studies. Performance Studies. Swedish Literature. Poetry. Translation

Judith Kiros

The English-language debut of one of Greece's most radical poetic voices, now in an expanded edition. Jazra Khaleed's poetry is electrifying, an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization. Born in Chechnya in 1979, Khaleed is a poet who seems very Greek and not Greek at all; his language is sharp, refined, and controlled, with elegant rhythms and contemporary street speech that often has an undertow of a sophisticated language with moments of Byzantine and New Testament Greek. In his poetry there is a power, erudition, and control that Greek readers have trouble equating with a man named Jazra. The poems are always political, vehement, written at times from a very personal perspective, and at others from that of an objective outsider. It is a poetry that tears the untroubled reader back to a reality that may well be dangerous. || "Jazra Khaleed's razor-wire-sharp poems are indispensable missives from other war zones to our contemporary moment of mass protests, campus occupations, and, as Darwish termed it, states of siege. A vital voice for the current age." --MARK NOWAK || "From cut-up experiment to lyrical address, from poems as forceful as a hurled stone to poems that speak tenderly for what's been lost to capitalist colonization, the range in this book speaks to Khaleed's hostility toward the violence of homogenizing forces, whether in literature or in life." --TONY IANTOSCA || "¿an explosive cadence¿ Khaleed's sentiment toward the would-be aesthetes seems clear: 'Fuck off, flower poets.'" --DAVID WALLACE, THE NEW YORKER || "¿agitated and delirious and necessary." --LOTTE L.S., MUTE || "Khaleed stands up to fascism by writing and performing Greek-language poetry that is unmatched in technical bravura, emotional depth, and political urgency. He performs his poetry at a lightning clip-so fast the Nazis can barely keep up, let alone talk back-a hip-hop emcee in a fever." --MAX RITVO, LA REVIEW OF BOOKS || Translation. Political Poetry. Modern Greek Studies. Anarchism Studies.

The Light That Burns Us (2nd Edition)

Jazra Khaleed

French poet Marie-Noëlle Agniau's English-language debut is a surreal and haunting work of transfiguration and rupture inspired by Ovid's Ocyrhoe. The Escapades builds on the Greek myth of a woman transformed into a horse by the obscure machinations of the Fates to tell the story of a human soul, both man and woman, that wanders among animals and children, haunted by the loss of its name, body, and voice. Agniau's eminently humane surrealism articulates questions of profound importance: the place of silence and speech, absence and love, in a troubled world. || "These are poems of erotic exaltation, of wind and the rush of rain driven forward. These are poems 'on the offensive,' escaping their own bounds before they begin. Mud stuck to its boots, the poem is ahead of itself, it has 'come to speak to you of things that are not yet there.' Poems as prophecy, then, calling for the release of our solitude that alone will save us from ourselves. The tongue enthralled caresses the world, its birds, its children, its disordered landscapes. In Agniau's Cavale, Amar's Escapades, 'speaking becomes the most beautiful human act' for how it marks the persistence of desire while grieving our distance from all that we seek to touch, to know, and to be." --JULIE CARR || "Both Ocyrhoe and Philomela blink up as two Greek figures robbed of speech -- one by conversion into a horse and one by losing her tongue -- while 'the poem' must sustain itself. This moving lyric sequence, lit by summer in the elastic days of Ordinary Time, brings a brilliant French poet to English-language readers at last." --SUSAN WHEELER || "The vivid originality of Agniau's thinking -- eye-opening ideas and connections brought home through arresting imagery -- is further enhanced by Amar's astonishing ear. Off-rhymes, tight or cascading down the page, alliteration fused with assonance ('Even birth thirsts, blind, in salt') create a pressurized weave that radiates insight. This first translation of Agniau's work into English is a gift to the language and to its poetic possibilities." --COLE SWENSEN || Translation. French Literature. Poetry. Mythology.

The Escapades

Marie-Noelle Agniau

DAY LASTS FOREVER: SELECTED POEMS

Marc Alan di Martino

BOOK OF EXERCISES II

Jennifer R. Kellogg

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