Remembering the Forbidden
A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
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A Field of Foundlings: Selected Poems by Iryna Starovoy | Reviewed by Marina Brown
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“For what in life can we prepare, for what can we ready ourselves, and against what weathers…” | by Katie Ford, Poetry International 27/28
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“In mind was the war I lived since my teenage time in Baghdad. However, it’s not about a specific war but about war itself. Every time, the war came with a different name…” | by Dunya Mikhail, Poetry International 27/28
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How sound can bridge the past and present and what books of poetry have in common with websites | Zach Bernstein and Paisley Rekdal talk about her digital project West: A Translation
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Poets and Cities an introduction by Sandra Alcosser Kevin Prufer Portfolio The Cities, the Armies A History of My Schooling Ants Unlocatable Sadness Increasingly Improbable Portfolios Love is a Bridge of Grammar: New Poems from ELENA SALAMANCA’S Pensamiento Salvaje (Viola Tricolor) translated from the Spanish by ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO The Bottle in My Purse/La botella
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THIS SPECIAL TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE contains a rich and exciting array of portfolios including new work from Kevin Prufer, and newly-translated work, presented in English as well as the original language, from Elena Salamanca, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Mariano Zaro, poets of the Armenian diaspora, among others. We have dug deep into our archives to bring you
Cyrus Cassells’ six books are The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses,The Crossed-Out Swastika, and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo. His book of Catalan translations, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas,is due from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in April 2019.
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The Heart’s Year Le coeur a ses saisons… May The treetops dance to a lively air. The crows are out, looking for trouble. The wind ambushes your loosened hair. June The season is unkind to the dark lady. All those bright hours hide the moon
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Poetry of Syria: Green Dreams in Red World Translated and introduced by Saleh Razzouk, Philip Terman and Murray Alfredson Syria gained independence from the French mandate in 1946, so we must consider it a fairly new country with deep roots in the Islamic past. Alexander the Great made it a part of his empire
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God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s Banana Palace Copper Canyon, 2016 by Emilia Phillips “We used our texting machines / to look up the definition of soul,” Dana Levin begins her fourth poetry collection, a move that destabilizes the reader’s sense of the contemporary moment by linguistically deconstructing the nascent objects with which we are
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To read, to read closely and be surprised, to study the craft and range a poet can teach us to reach toward, these are some of the deepest gifts that editing gives poets. These gifts become multiplied in the rare example of Kwame Dawes, whose available online publication offers readers 80+ poems to consider and
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“Sight” (link below) isn’t pretty and neither is the music. A maddeningly dominant C pedal tone breaks only to underscore “They do not see the soft” and returns with “eyes of a child.” The composition uses repetition, fragmentation and distortion to convey, as the poem does, the blindness of the Rwandan Civil War—the casualties, the
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Caribbean Poetry, as we know it, changed forever with the coming of Kwame. For a start, he is the embodiment of the African Jamaican, born as he was of Ghanaian and Jamaican parents, and he moves with ease and authority between multiple worlds. Everything about Kwame’s art is multi-dimensional. Poet, playwright, scholar, editor, musician, social
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Kwame Dawes. Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic. Peepal Tree Press, 1999, 2003, 2008. 296 pgs. I. Introduction I came late to Kwame Dawes’ ground-breaking work Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic. I had heard this poet, novelist, essayist, editor, musician speak on the topic as early as 1999 in the prestigious Derek
Amongst Kwame Dawes’ long list of achievements, the Calabash International Literary Festival, one of the best literature festivals anywhere on earth, an eagerly anticipated (now) biennial event that has won kudos for Jamaica, is outstanding. Calabash, founded jointly by Colin Channer, Justine Henzell and Kwame, has become a Jamaican national treasure. Kwame plays a leading
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A urbane, grounded, naturalistic stylist, the power of his poetry has allowed him to implement numerous innovations in a region associated with formalism. Experiments with poetry and music / art installations / performance / video & even computer games, have seen his popularity soar in Latvia, though he remains a poet writing in Russian.
an interview with Sergej Timofejev ( Latvia ) by SJ Fowler
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…one of the most resolute stylists and theorists of his generation, a lauded Nazim Hikmet scholar and an architect by trade, his eloquent and erudite poetry has earned him a reputation across the continent.
an interview with Efe Duyan ( Turkey ) by SJ Fowler
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A lauded playwright, critic and linguistic philosopher, as well as a poet, her depth and zest have marked her out as one of the most hopeful female poets writing in Europe at large. Her work is marked but a sensitivity and care that many would find incongruous with her rigour and methodological pragmatism.
An interview with Volya Hapeyeva ( Belarus ) by SJ Fowler
Maintenant #38: Volya Hapeyeva Read More »
Pugnacious yet mature, her poetry is full of guile and wit, and freely holds satire within a trenchant, valuable social critique.
an interview with Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir ( Iceland ) by SJ Fowler
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…he is a formidable and agile poet, writing droll, politically astute and incisive poetry.
a interview with Georgi Gospodinov ( Bulgaria ) by SJ Fowler
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